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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by etrautmann »

hedgehog wrote: post #100

All that and no improvement to battery life. I've been wearing an Apple Watch for a few years, the data collection is good but the abysmal battery life and associated charge management is a real downer. I'm Apple ecosystem for almost everything but the battery and touch sensitivity issues are enough to get me to do the work to go to a different platform for health data.

The Apple watch ultra, while expensive, at least has 1.5 to 2 day battery life, which has completely eliminated the issue of charging midday that I used to run into if using gps or fitness tracking for more than a few hours.

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Post by Nextgrid »

mgrandl wrote: post #65
darknavi wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend has his kids use LTE Apple Watches. He set them up with his iPhone and they don't have them. It supports "Kid" mode on the watches and everything. They can call and text him when ever they want, which is really nice.

How old are the kids? My wife can’t find well fitting watch bands for the smallest Apple Watch due to here thin wrists. Can’t imagine finding some for a kid.

You can find handmade Apple Watch bracelets on Etsy. Alongside a lot of dropshipped crap ones from Aliexpress - but the point is it seems like third parties are able to make bracelets that replicate the mechanical “interface” for the bracelets, so you should be able to find any size you want.

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Post by bengale »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #31
cruffle_duffle wrote: post #11

Finally they are focusing on making that thing thinner!! That watch is currently obnoxiously thick and can sometimes get caught on clothes and stuff.

Most of my friends with one would rather have longer battery life than have it be slimmer.

That’s the ultra.

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Post by izacus »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #6
microtonal wrote: post #3

I thank Apple for not releasing an Ultra 3. No FOMO this year :).

Honestly seems like the main reason to buy an Ultra 2 over a 10 is if you dive, or really, really need the extra battery life.

Unfortunately the reports from other divers say that the Ultra is not a very reliable diving computer with OS crashing and rebooting at times. Something that's unthinkable on a Shearwater, Garmin or even a Suunto.

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Post by tester89 »

tiltowait wrote: post #109
hedgehog wrote: post #100

All that and no improvement to battery life. I've been wearing an Apple Watch for a few years, the data collection is good but the abysmal battery life and associated charge management is a real downer. I'm Apple ecosystem for almost everything but the battery and touch sensitivity issues are enough to get me to do the work to go to a different platform for health data.

At this point, it’s pretty clear Apple targets a specific battery life (18 hours) and builds the techs around that. As a result, I don’t think we will get an improvement in that area anytime soon. However, it does look like they improved the charging story—something like 80% in 30 minutes? Not bad.

Yeah, they could've made the size decrease less impressive and boasted of a 24 hour battery life if they really wanted to.

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Post by bengale »

braaileb wrote: post #9

Sounds like this isn’t a compelling new release for many of you all but as a person with autism the training load feature is something I missed from Garmin. My interoception isn’t very keen and to have this help me train mindfully is nice, I’ve had a history of either under or over training because I can’t sense how my body is adapting.

I’ve been using an awesome app called athlytic that takes this to the next level.

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

nextos wrote: post #32

I really wish they made it independent of the iPhone. I think for people that only use smartphones occasionally, it'd be ideal to have just a watch and a desktop/laptop. It'd also be a great move by Apple towards reducing distractions of its users. Watches can be much less intrusive than phones.

> I think for people that only use smartphones occasionally, it'd be ideal to have just a watch and a desktop/laptop.

Apple doesn't want to build a world in which people occasionally use smartphones.

They're an iPhone company.

They're building things to make iPhone's more valuable and to keep / strengthen their lead / profit engine.

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Post by 4dm1r4lg3n3r4l »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #13

My Series 9 totally fails at sleep detection and regularly claims that I am in "Deep Sleep" while I am lying there trying to get back to sleep. Instead of fixing that, they are adding sleep apnea alerts. I wish there was an alternate ecosystem that was actually competitive with Apple.

Try turning off sleep schedule and automatic sleep focus on/off. AFAIK sleep tracking uses sleep focus to determine if you try to sleep or not, it gives off false positives a lot. For example I was watching a movie, sleep focus turned on automatically at 9pm (due to my sleep schedule being set to start then), movie was boring, I had a low HR and the watch thought I was asleep. Managing sleep focus manually made the measurements pretty much spotless as I turn it on whenever I lay down to sleep and turn it off as soon as I wake up.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by HaZeust »

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #97
criddell wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only being able to take calls on speakerphone I was under the impression that if you had AirPods, they would work for phone calls through the watch.

You can but in practice this doesn't end up working well. By the time your airpod is out of your pocket, out of the case, in your ear, and connected to your watch, the call has stopped ringing. If you are only worried about placing calls and not receiving them, it works better but you still have to contend with bluetooth, which is less than 100% reliable, being an essential component of your setup.

>"You can but in practice this doesn't end up working well. By the time your airpod is out of your pocket, out of the case, in your ear, and connected to your watch, the call has stopped ringing."

How is the form factor of this any different than when you connect AirPods to take a call on your iPhone? This exact order of premeditation prior to the action of taking a call is already commonplace if for the iPhone - why not for the Apple Watches too?

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