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My Fenix 8 lasts for about a month with 10 hours per week of training. 30 hours with everything enabled is pathetic for a smart watch.
fenix is huge so it's understandable
I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. Wh…
2nd most useful feature is vibrate alarm.
Telling time not even that important on my list.
I don't do payment with watch. Since I think the motion of making my wrist to the counter is awkward. Since we are always on our phone it doesn't make it much simpler.
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> The killer feature of modern watches is the vibration alarm - you can wake up even if you use earplugs/headphones/noise machine and you won't wake up anyone else along with you. Probably depends a lot on the person. A phone already does that for me, and doesn't have the associated uncomfortableness of wearing a watch while I sleep.
Indeed, I didn't see studies so my theory is that most people find sleeping with a phone in the bed much more uncomfortable than with a watch on the wrist.
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Indeed, I didn't see studies so my theory is that most people find sleeping with a phone in the bed much more uncomfortable than with a watch on the wrist.
Phone in the bed? My phone is not in the bed. It still wakes me up when vibrating.
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I don't have a Pixel Watch, but I do have a Garmin one which I use for: - Watch stuff (alarms, etc.) - Health stats tracking (HRV, sleep, steps, training readiness) - Offline navigation when hiking in the mountains (its really nice to have a route available right there on your wrist) - Workout tracking - the watch can receive accurate HR data from my strap during swimming or other activities. - Scuba diving - the Des…
How close does another diver have to be for a message to send/received?
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This. Totally. I would say I'm quite a power user usually. I very carefully explored every feature my apple watch has and tried to incorporate as many of them as I could. Very, very few features stuck because they were genuinely helpful. Almost everything being pushed is a gimmick or a feature bullet point from some product manager. The actual good stuff: Time Workouts Payments The occasionally useful stuff: Notifica…
Payments should be the obvious feature. The commercials for various smart watches show the same thing: somebody buying a coffee with just their watch. But the reality is different. On my smartwatch (an older Samsung, but same Google OS merged with Tizen) there's a PIN required if you enable payments on the watch. I understand why, the secure element requires it. But it makes every other feature of the watch useless t…
How exactly? Samsung watches only require the pin to be enabled if you want payments enabled. You only have to enter the pin if you have taken the watch off. As long as it can detect that it remains on your wrist then payments continue to be enabled no pin required...
My GW4 classic has been dogshit slow for years now, they have absolutely fucked it up with no concern for older devices in the updates. And all fucken reddit can say is the usual tribally inspired "Well it's old and has a slower processor" yeah no fucken shit.
I'm not buying a brand new smart watch every 3 years, fuck that.
I reluctantly use a pixel with grapheneos, but anything that can only run google or manufacturer provided software without an independent 3rd party is trash, having looked at wearos while trying to refuse Samsungs terms/integration I also consider it a worse grade of trash than a phone since it can intentionally create codependency on other devices for management despite having more processing power than android 2-4…
What's specially shitty with using a wearos watch with an android phone is that clock's alarms etc do not sync, at least not between grapheneos samsung galaxy watch 4. I have to use use turboclock which has a wearos app to get wakeup alarms to my watch.
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That seems extremely overdramatic for what amounts to a personal choice that doesn't disrupt anyone else.
A dear friend was one of the first people I knew to get an apple watch, that mf will stop midsentence (his or anyone else's) to stare at his fuckin watch like once a minute. Convenient, sure I guess. "Non disruptive" - nope.