{"id":20033,"date":"2019-03-28T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20033"},"modified":"2019-03-28T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T07:25:15","slug":"apple-watch-ecg-go-live-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20033","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch ECG Go-live in Europe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19799 size-Post-Thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4.png 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/><\/a>The ECG feature of the Apple Watch Series 4 has been<br \/>\nlocked down to the USA since it&#8217;s release. With the new<br \/>\nrelease of WatchOS 5.2 this has changed: The ECG feature<br \/>\nhas been made available outside USA now.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It seems that Apple has managed to get certifications for medical devices in several countries within just 4 months.<\/p>\n<p>The following list shows, where the ECG feature is now available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austria<\/li>\n<li>Belgium<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Guam<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Puerto Rico<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<li>US Virgin Islands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-19799\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-480x480.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple_Watch_S4.png 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a>But not only Europe benefits from WatchOS 5.2: Also Hong Kong, Puerto Rico and Guam can now make use of the ECG feature.<\/p>\n<p>The release of this high-anticipated feature and the first success stories in the USA make WatchOS 5.2 a huge step forward in Apple Watch history.<\/p>\n<p>Although it seems as if ECG feature becomes wide available now, it might be not as easy as in europe to get certification elsewhere on the world.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how this will develop in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECG feature of the Apple Watch Series 4 has been locked down to the USA since it&#8217;s release. With the new release of WatchOS 5.2 this has changed: The ECG feature has been made available outside USA now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2211,3,2949],"tags":[385,3627,371,3714,1690,3715],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-gadgets-2","category-news","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ecg","tag-release","tag-series-4","tag-watch","tag-watchos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}