It’s been a long wait since the Apple Watch was first announced in September. The wearable will finally become available for pre-order on Friday, April 10, before it goes on sale two weeks later on April 24. Apart from fake Apple Watches on sale in China and garish augmented reality renderings of an Apple Watch on their wrist, very few have had the opportunity to try out Apple’s new smartwatch.

Apple picked a handful of tech writers and gave them each an Apple Watch to test drive. If you are still on the fence about buying an Apple Watch, here is a look at some of the reviews from these tech writers who have actually worn the Watch for a few days or more. Who knows? One of them may help you decide.

Apple Watch is certainly not the first smartwatch. However, David Pogue, in his review on Yahoo Tech, said, “The Apple Watch is light-years better than any of the feeble, clunky efforts that have come before it. The screen is nicer, the software is refined and bug-free, the body is real jewelry.”

Does that mean you need an Apple Watch? Perhaps not: “You don’t need one. Nobody needs a smartwatch. After all, it’s something else to buy, care for [and] charge every night. It’s another cable to pack and track.

“In the end, therefore, the Apple Watch is, above all, a satisfying indulgence. It’s a luxury. You might buy it to bring you pleasure — and it will — much the way you might buy a really nice car, some really nice clothes or a really nice entrée,” concludes Pogue.

In his review for USA Today, Ed Baig claims no smartwatch has ever been good enough to tempt him into buying one. The Apple Watch, on the other hand, has convinced him that he needs a smartwatch.

“Now that I’ve spent more than a week wearing the Apple Watch, I’m reserving a prominent spot on my wrist. Apple Watch is an elegant combination of style and purpose, even if it indeed often serves as a stand-in for the iPhone tucked away in your pocket or purse,” Baig wrote.

Unless you know exactly what purpose your shiny new Apple Watch will serve, Nilay Patel from The Verge has some advice for you:

“There’s no question that the Apple Watch is the most capable smartwatch available today. It is one of the most ambitious products I’ve ever seen; it wants to do and change so much about how we interact with technology. But that ambition robs it of focus: It can do tiny bits of everything, instead of a few things extraordinarily well. For all of its technological marvel, the Apple Watch is still a smartwatch, and it’s not clear that anyone’s yet figured out what smartwatches are actually for.

“… If you’re going to buy an Apple Watch, I’d recommend buying a Sport model; I wouldn’t spend money on how it looks until Apple completes the task of figuring out what it does,” suggests Patel.

The New York Times announced last week that its app will let users read “one-sentence stories” on their Apple Watch. Writing for The New York Times, Farhad Manjoo ended his review with one sentence that could fit on the Watch’s screen: “The first Apple Watch may not be for you — but someday soon, it [Apple Watch] will change your world.”

Joshua Topolsky is also not convinced the Apple Watch is a must-have. “The Apple Watch is cool, it’s beautiful, it’s powerful and it’s easy to use. But it’s [Apple Watch] not essential. Not yet,” he wrote for Bloomberg.

The Apple Watch could be a habit-changing device, according to Lauren Goode at Re/code.

“… It’s trying really, really hard not to look at your wrist when you’re in the middle of a meeting. In our new world of too-many-devices, it somehow becomes the second thing you reach for when you roll out of bed,” Goode wrote.

Scott Stein, writing for CNET, also doesn’t feel the Apple Watch is a necessity. “The Apple Watch is the most ambitious, well-constructed smartwatch ever seen, but first-gen shortfalls make it feel more like a fashionable toy than a necessary tool,” wrote Stein in his review.

Joanna Stern put the wearable through its paces for her review in The Wall Street Journal. While impressed with the accuracy of the activity and fitness tracking functions, it wasn’t all good news.

“Why is there an Exercise app on the watch, but the data lives in the iPhone’s Activity app? Why must I click ‘save’ to keep a record of a workout? And why can’t the watch’s battery make it past 10 p.m. on days that I exercise?” Stern wondered.

There you have it. While perhaps not essential, all these reviews seem to agree that the Apple Watch is a game changer among smartwatches.

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