One of the coolest thing about the Apple Watch is that it is essentially everything cool about your smartphone pushed into an easy to wear device. That being said, one may find themselves asking whether or not there is an Apple Watch camera.
It doesn’t take much of a search to realize that there is no built-in camera on the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch is rather compact in its design, so it shouldn’t be all too surprising that it lacks a built-in camera.
Although the Apple Watch does lack a camera in its hardware, this does not mean that you aren’t able to take pictures with your Apple Watch. It doesn’t take a tech wizard or any fancy hardware engineering on your part to do it either!
In fact, there are some simple devices that can make it discrete and easy to bring photography to your Apple Watch.
Apple Watch Camera
There was no question that Apple needed to have some kind of camera set up for the Apple Watch. When you think about it, an Apple Watch camera is ideal. It is one that is always out of your pocket and right at the convenience of your own hand so that you are able to capture memories at a moment’s notice.
While a built-in camera feature may have been ideal, the next best thing was to design an add-on device that could act at the Apple Watch camera. Their answer to the lack of camera was the Apple Watch Band.
Apple Watch Band Camera
The Apple Watch Band is no ordinary phone band. It utilizes the fact that Apple has interchangeable watch straps so that it has a watch band that has a camera function built in. The Apple Watch Band is like no other and is not currently compatible with any other smart watches.
The Apple Watch Band is the go to way to take pictures with your Apple Watch. The interchangeable, digital band has two cameras positioned so that you can take photos of whatever your watch is pointed at.
It boasts an easy to use interface that anyone can figure out making it easier than ever to get pictures of things you want in an instance. You wont have to worry about learning any fancy controls to utilize your Apple Watch Band and get your photos taken!
At $200, it is a bit pricey considering the money that you just dropped to get yourself a smart watch, but it’s go big or go home in the world of technology. The 8-megapixel camera can do pretty much everything. From selfies to small videos, this watch is perfect for everything.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t fix all the shortcoming of the lack of camera. For one thing, it doesn’t really allow for the same kind of photo quality you would expect from other Apple products of this generation. To top it all off, you still aren’t able to do facetime or other video chats.
Hopefully, with the newer updates and features that come out will help compensate for that. Although other companies have tried to make a smart watch with a built-in camera feature (including the rumors surrounding the Apple Watch 2), it does not look like a feature that is going to be sticking around anytime soon.
Having a built-in Apple Watch Camera is just not that important in the great scheme of things. With products like the Apple Watch Band, it leaves designers more room to focus on other features. Things like a better battery life and faster processing.
Still, it would be nice to be able to get that camera in for some of those other fun features. Until then, we still have our iPhones and other Apple products to compensate in the meantime.
