Apple Watch Series 5

Post by pb7 » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #197

matthewmacleod wrote: post #160

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Also decodes and plays audio, takes ECGs, monitors movement and sleeping patterns in real-time, communicates with people on the other side of the planet using a high-bandwidth global communications network, and receives and decodes positioning signals sent from space.

And all of that requires 2 Cray supercomputers, unlike, say, the Apollo flight computer, a 2mhz cpu w/ 2048 words of ram and 36k of rom, in 1966

Post by GordonS » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:33 PM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #55

GordonS wrote: post #24

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I quite like the idea of a smart watch, but having to charge it every day is much less appealing.

I keep a charger on my desk at work and if I remember I top it up sometime in the afternoon, if not I charge it in the evening. I do miss the week long battery from my Pebble Time, but having to charge it daily hasn't been a real problem. The main nuisance is needing to bring the proprietary charger when I travel for a couple days.

Post by teilo » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:36 PM UTC

Post by bscphil » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:36 PM UTC

sbuk wrote: post #196

jedberg wrote: post #86

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> Making that functionality native would seem to recommend wearing the watch 24/7 Exactly! At this point, my expectation is that I would wear the watch at all times except when I shower in the morning, and that is when I would charge it. But it won't charge that quickly. :( Which means I either have to give up sleep tracking or activity tracking to charge it. It sounds like they need to make it so that the bands can…

> But it won't charge that quickly. :( Long time Apple Watch owner, currently using the Series 4 - charging while in the shower is exactly how I charge my watch. It has never run out using this way.

Post by gambiting » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:42 PM UTC

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I think all day depends on the specific device. For example, I would accept a 10 hr battery life for a laptop or wireless headphones as "all-day" because that will cover a full work day and people aren't expected to use those devices 24/7. 18 hours for "all-day" on a wearable seems reasonable if the expectation is that it will be used only when the user is awake. A complicating factor is that Watch OS 6 is supposed t…

While sleep tracking is possible the single most useful thing I could get out of a wearable, I just have never been able to sleep with a watch or band on. Until there's something as low profile as a reminder band (think Livestrong), I'm not sure if I'll be able to get sleep tracking (the Oura ring is promising, but the price point is too high for its limited applications to me).