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Unboxing the Apple Watch

 & Sascha Segan Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

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The new Apple Watch is Apple's latest foray into fashion. It goes on sale today, but you can't just pick one up in the store; you have to pre-order one and get it delivered. When you do get it, though, it'll come in this attractive white box.

In our unboxing, we take a look at what's inside the box—which is a little more complicated, and maybe even a little more fancy, than previous Apple products.

Apple is well-known for simple white packaging, short instructional pamphlets, and white cords and cables. The Watch adds a twist: a box within a box, where the Watch itself nestles in a felt enclosure. Our model of the Watch was the $699, 42mm stainless-steel unit.

Since the Apple Watch is a new category of product, we'll have our full review in a few days—we really want to settle in with using it. For now, you can check out our Apple Watch hands on from last month, and other wearable coverage on PCMag.com.

Watch the video below to see us unbox the Apple Watch.

About Our Expert

Sascha Segan

Sascha Segan

Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

My Experience

I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also wrote a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsessed about phones and networks.

My Areas of Expertise

  • US and Canadian mobile networks
  • Mobile phones released in the US
  • iPads, Android tablets, and ebook readers
  • Mobile hotspots
  • Big data features such as Fastest Mobile Networks and Best Work-From-Home Cities

The Technology I Use

Being cross-platform is critical for someone in my position. In the US, the mobile world is split pretty cleanly between iOS and Android. So I think it's really important to have Apple, Android and Windows devices all in my daily orbit.

I use a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 for work and a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro for personal use. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, although I'm probably going to move to an Android foldable. Most of my writing is either in Microsoft OneNote or a free notepad app called Notepad++. Number crunching, which I do often for those big data stories, is via Microsoft Excel, DataGrip for MySQL, and Tableau.

In terms of apps and cloud services, I use both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive heavily, although I also have iCloud because of the three Macs and three iPads in our house. I subscribe to way too many streaming services. 

My primary tablet is a 12.9-inch, 2020-model Apple iPad Pro. When I want to read a book, I've got a 2018-model flat-front Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. My home smart speakers run Google Home, and I watch a TCL Roku TV. And Verizon Fios keeps me connected at home.

My first computer was an Atari 800 and my first cell phone was a Qualcomm Thin Phone. I still have very fond feelings about both of them.

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