Apple Watch Series 0 (2015, 1st gen)

50% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

0% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Best-looking smartwatch so far ; Force Touch well integrated ; Digital Crown is a useful addition ; Comfortable to wear

Unintuitive and buggy software ; Significantly drains iPhone battery ; Third-party apps need work ; Some gimmicky features

Looks great ; Upright position enables nightstand mode ; Soft-touch finish prevents scratches

Expensive ; Doesn’t charge any quicker ; Lacks included wall plug

A pricey but attractive way to securely charge your Apple Watch, enable nightstand mode, and prevent it from picking up damage.

Stylish design ; Clever interface ; Dramatic OS update

Expensive at any level ; Battery life is one day ; Missing many key apps

The Apple Watch is good, but better suited to the wrists of early adopters and boutique shop regulars. It's convenient but there's a learning curve you have to overcome and a high price that some people won't be able to get around.

Great design ; Lovely screen ; Accurate voice recogntion

Hard to learn interface ; Limited useful apps

Apple has definitely made the smartwatch appeal to the mainstream in a way that Pebble and Android Wear didn’t.

So the $64m question: do you need an Apple Watch? Simple answer, no. Like all Apple products it is beautifully made, does all sorts of clever things and is a big talking point with friends and colleagues. But it is expensive (the cheapest version is...

Great design, Glances, stylish, battery life, reply to text messages, photo watch faces, Apple Pay

Apps are slow to load when not native, no GPS, no third-party watch faces, doesn't offer huge amounts over what is on the market

The Apple Watch is a powerful smartwatch with plenty of features on offer - from calls, to notifications, and thousands of apps all on your wrist. There's not much that sets it apart from the competition, however, save for its good-looking design.

The potential of what the Apple Watch can do is going to be huge. We feel we've only just scratched the surface in our demo. How Power Reserve works, how live notifications work, whether you really will use the voice calling capabilities to make calls...

Beautifully constructed. Handles messages well. A solid fitness tracker. Hundreds of apps. Can send and receive voice calls via an iPhone. Lots of design choices. Apple Pay-enabled. Stores music for local playback over Bluetooth.

Battery only lasts a little more than a day. Most models and configurations cost more than they should. Requires an iPhone to work. Interface can be confusing. Many apps load slowly. Lacks built-in GPS.

A year old and even more affordable, the Apple Watch remains the best designed and most capable smartwatch you can buy -- but we're hoping that the inevitable sequel makes it more of a must-have product.

We can't offer our final verdict on the Apple Watch until we've spent some more time with it, but first impressions are good. It's more expensive than most of its rivals despite being capable of most of the same things, but that hasn't stopped people...