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Re: Apple Watch Series 5

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Post by EugeneOZ »

piffey wrote: post #110
40acres wrote: post #58

Perhaps it's naive of me to think that Apple will ever detach the Watch from the Phone and allow set up and full use cases for users who don't have an iPhone. I'd definitely buy a cellular enabled Apple Watch and ditch my phone if possible.

This is exactly why I purchased the Apple Watch. I leave my phone at home more often than not. The Watch does just basic comms and I've removed notifications of everything else. It's the essential communication/navigation device that I need and all I really want. For anything else I'd much rather open my laptop. Hoping one day it can be a standalone device.

Worth to note that you can't setup new Apple Watch without iPhone. Even version with virtual sim.

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Post by sushisource »

TacticalTable wrote: post #175
Spearchucker wrote: post #150

Scrolling down there's the Nike and Hermes editions. Maybe this is a cultural difference between here (Frankfurt) and elsewhere - I fail to understand how one would willingly pay extra to advertise a brand. The way I see it is that Nike for example should pay ME to wear their branding. And even then I wouldn't. I'm not a walking billboard.

There's a large cultural difference here, and from my experience, Germany is the exact antithesis of American brand culture. In America, among many groups of people, brands are social signaling on how important/wealthy you are. It only tapers off a bit at higher incomes (>1M+). Below that, it's rampant.

I don' t think that's the right income cutoff at all. In my experience the brand signaling occurs in the poor-lower-middle class regions, then stops from there all the way up to the new money but no taste crowd. Rap stars, etc. I don't know anyone in the HN/SoftwareDev income range who loves to show off brands, with occasionally some cars as maybe the exception.

Though I will say Nike shoes tend to be an exception across the board. Seems like everyone has a pair of those.

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Post by Zenst »

"International emergency calling also works with fall detection, if enabled, to automatically place an emergency call if Apple Watch senses the user has taken a hard fall and remains motionless for about a minute."

I like how they have thought, don't need a sim to make an emergency call, let alone credit, why not add the ability to call emergency services and use the GPS to pick the right local number.

Equally the safety feature for older people is great initiative, though I do feel for younger users, this may cause some false positives and produce an unhappy ending when suddenly your watch has called the emergency services because you had a rest after some form of exercise.

With that in mind, I'd imagine that during that minute a countdown upon the display starts and audible alert of about to call the emergency services - just to limit false positives taking up emergency services time. Also for legit cases, would offer reassurance to somebody who may be incapacitated but able to hear. Maybe they do have that, not sure, and will find out come an in depth review.

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Post by pfranz »

theshrike79 wrote: post #192
the_watcher wrote: post #16

> 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"/

18 hours is a practical level for smart watch battery. That way users will recharge it every night and never run out during the day. 24 hours means that people will sleep with it and forget to charge in the morning -> annoyed users. 36 hours would require charging every other night, but then you'd miss every other night's sleep tracking -> annoyed users. There's really no way for Apple to win, unless they jump up to…

I know this is a completely different class of device, but even though my FitBit can last a few days without recharge, the more important thing is that it can get a full day's charge while I'm in the shower.

A 24 or 36 hr battery that recharges during a 15m shower I imagine would work for most people.

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Post by Shorel »

drinchev wrote: post #111
jedberg wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I feel lucky now! My watch (Series 0) will last about 16 hours, 15 hours if I do a heart tracking working. It's been worn every day (and charged every night) since it was purchased.

How does the battery drains during heat waves? I noticed mine gets depleted too fast when the temperature outside is 30+ degrees ( Celsius ).

As an unrelated anecdote, I have an e-book reader and its battery lasted the longest when I went to a place with 30+ temperatures.

It lasted for two weeks and a half reading about 4 hours a day.

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Post by freehunter »

jniedrauer wrote: post #114

Hard to beat the watches Garmin is making. 18 hour battery life isn't great compared to the fenix series with a week of battery life. And the features don't even come close.

The Fenix is also $900. For that price you could buy two Apple Watches to switch out when one is charging and still have money left in your pocket.

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Post by bradenb »

whymsicalburito wrote: post #172
fudged71 wrote: post #170

While I am looking to upgrade to the Series 5 from a Series 1, I'm disappointed in the lack of native sleep tracking functionality... it's a glaring hole in the concept of overall health tracking. Similarly, I'd hoped they would announce some standardization to weightlifting in HealthKit. The watch and iphone health options are very cardio-centric, and every weightlifting app has implemented their own internal 1RM tr…

Sleep tracking would be cool, but don't most users charge their watch at night?

I think most probably do, but in my opinion the optimal way to use this watch is to wear all day and night and charge in the morning while you get ready. I've been doing that for 2 years with my Series 3 and I have never run out of battery.

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Post by drusepth »

vxNsr wrote: post #148
52-6F-62 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd definitely appreciate being able to change it as a setting. Is there a hardware reason that couldn't have been implemented?

Nope they're just taking advantage of the OLED screen which only turns on the pixels it needs to, I doubt you could double the battery life by turning off always on... you might get 2-3 more hours out of it.

2-3 hours is still a lot when you're only getting 18, though.

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Post by nacs »

Zenst wrote: post #213

"International emergency calling also works with fall detection, if enabled, to automatically place an emergency call if Apple Watch senses the user has taken a hard fall and remains motionless for about a minute." I like how they have thought, don't need a sim to make an emergency call, let alone credit, why not add the ability to call emergency services and use the GPS to pick the right local number. Equally the sa…

> I'd imagine that during that minute a countdown upon the display starts and audible alert of about to call the emergency services

There is both an audible alert and a display change with countdown before it starts the call.

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