Anybody ordered one?
I’ve gone for the green aluminium one with green sports band. The checkout process was a pain, though - card verification kept timing out then saying that payment had been rejected. It would then say it was texting me an OTP, which never arrived.
Finally got it ordered after 15 minutes with a claimed delivery date of next Friday, but we’ll see.
I have, can’t wait. ordered the starlight aluminium to go with my deep cherry braided band. Got it for next Friday too.
I haven’t, and I normally wouldn’t be interested although I saw it claims to track swimming distances accurately and if it does, I might be! As nothing else I’ve tried had managed that yet.
Do let me know if you take it swimming outdoors 
Delivery pushed back a month and half now
Glad I placed the order on Friday now!
I did. At 1pm. Came up as a week in the order confirmation but since checking it’s now changed
My order didn’t get confirmed until around 1:15pm but it’s still showing this Friday for delivery.
Status has changed to “Preparing to ship”.
Oh really, that’s not good.
I also ordered at 1pm Friday, delivery still scheduled for the 15th. Fingers crossed for you.
I fear it isn’t a big sadly. I must have just missed out on the initial batch. Never mind. I shall just have to be patient
Which model did you order?
Nike, aluminium, silver with cellular
I did see something about the Nike’s being in even shorter supply.
Ah well, thanks for the heads up.
You can try John Lewis on Fri for a quicker delivery, or keep trying with Apple for store pickup and you might be able to get one sooner.
I didn’t know you can do that - change from post to collection after you’ve ordered.
I don’t think you can - you’d have to cancel the original order if you managed to get one in store. I did that with my current S5.
Yes, you just cancel the outstanding order when you manage to get one sooner.
Well blow me down. That worked. Pick up this Friday. Cancelled the original one. Thanks for your help 
So my new Apple Watch is expected tomorrow, I’ve never owned one before.
What apps should I be downloading 
I haven’t downloaded anything specifically for the Watch with the exception of Battery Phone. It allows you to see the battery level of your phone on the watch face.
The two main uses (apart from telling the time) of my Watch are controlling audio playback through my AirPods and notifications.
Edit: paying for stuff. I got my Watch just before the pandemic but felt very self conscious about using it to pay in shops, but then masks made it so much easier to use the Watch to pay it’s become second nature for me to pay by Watch.