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> all-day 18-hour battery life. Is there a standard for what "all-day" means? I think most would initially assume 24 hours, but thinking about it more, it seems reasonable to consider "can work from wake up to sleep" or "can work from sunup to sundown"/
I quite like the idea of a smart watch, but having to charge it every day is much less appealing.
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You can stream Apple Music over WiFi/cellular without the phone. Not sure if that will include Spotify at some point but I do know the new watchOS has opened up a lot of those APIs.
That's nice, but I already pay for spotify and use it on my non-Apple devices. Does Apple Music let me stream any song in their library?
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You can stream Apple Music over WiFi/cellular without the phone. Not sure if that will include Spotify at some point but I do know the new watchOS has opened up a lot of those APIs.
That's nice, but I already pay for spotify and use it on my non-Apple devices. Does Apple Music let me stream any song in their library?
> all-day 18-hour battery life. Is there a standard for what "all-day" means? I think most would initially assume 24 hours, but thinking about it more, it seems reasonable to consider "can work from wake up to sleep" or "can work from sunup to sundown"/
I quite like the idea of a smart watch, but having to charge it every day is much less appealing.
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"Wake to Sleep" seems to be the generally accepted definition, i.e. you won't have to charge it during the day during normal usage. How long you're awake for can vary though, I've seen anything from 8 hours to 20 hours of battery life be referred to as "all day".
Clearly this means they don't intend Apple Watch to pick up sleep tracking though. My Fitbit needs to last a few days because there's only a couple chances I really take it off to charge.
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You can stream Apple Music over WiFi/cellular without the phone. Not sure if that will include Spotify at some point but I do know the new watchOS has opened up a lot of those APIs.
That's nice, but I already pay for spotify and use it on my non-Apple devices. Does Apple Music let me stream any song in their library?
Is Google still committed to Wear OS? They're so far behind.
I switched from an Apple watch to various non-Apple smartwatches when I switched to an Android phone. I used a Ticwatch E (for over a year), the new Samsung Galaxy watch (for a week), and the very new Fossil Gen 5 watch for the last month.
The Ticwatch E uses Wear OS, but is relatively slow and has battery life issues if you are not careful; however, it is very light (40 grams with band!).
I tried very hard to like the bigger Samsung Galaxy watch, but for me it was far too heavy (63 grams + band), which drove me nuts, and the app ecosystem was painful to me. In fairness, the battery life was really amazing though.
I currently wear a Gen 5 Fossil, which weighs 45 grams + band, and is fast enough, with a lot more RAM/storage than the ticwatch and newer generation processor. I'm happy with it. (For comparison, the Apple Watch case is 50 grams.)
Overall, I like Wear OS significantly more than the Samsung watch operating system (which I really didn't like, due to the apps being so expensive and limited). Wear OS is also nice because there are tens of thousands of watch faces to choose from, and some of the faces (that cost $1) are also very highly customizable.
The Apple Watch Series 5 is an absolutely incredible piece of technology, and I wish I at least had the option to choose it, but I guess I don't since I'm not using an iPhone...
Is Google still committed to Wear OS? They're so far behind.
Only reason I don’t have an Apple Watch is because you can’t stream Spotify over cellular, you need to have your phone with you. What’s the point? I want to go for a run and stream music with just the watch to my Bluetooth headphones. I don’t need the watch if I have to bring my phone with me.
No sleep tracking, no SpO2 sensor. They must be working on this, it would perfectly well into their health theme, and they bought Beddit. Another year.
I would assume sleep tracking would never be a feature. You need to charge your Apple Watch every night, so that's off the limit. I use Fitbit Flex 2 to track my sleep and I wear them both during the day, however during the night only Flex 2 stays on one of my wrists. Unfortunately Fitbit decided to discontinue the display-less flex 2 and now I'm a bit confused on what to do next.
I thought the charging thing would be deadly for my use of it, but it is so much less of a thing than I imagined it would be. Firstly, sleep tracking uses surprisingly little battery. Often I'll see less than an 8% drop over night. Additionally I just drop it on the charger in the morning while doing my morning routines and that gets it quickly to 100%. Very occasionally I do a short burst in the evening.
I never thought it would be worth that sort of hassle, but it is a thousand fold. I send and receive messages from the watch. Answer calls. Look up things. Use the activity track. Use it to control media. It is my alarm clock. With the recent betas of 6.0 the usability has improved dramatically -- before all sorts of operations would yield "I can't do that" sorts of responses, whereas now I'm getting just brilliant results.
I was a naysayer of the thing (I strongly felt that if you couldn't go days without recharging it was a dud). The health features got me to give a shot, and I am a very strong believer now. It is an absolutely wonderful device.