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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by bmurphy1976 »

I wish Apple had more design variation for their watches. When I'm not using my phone, it's in my pocket. When I am using it, I honestly only care about the screen, the camera, and the audio. If it looks cool great BUT that ultimately doesn't matter.

Watches are different. Watches are a true fashion accessory. Watches have style. Apple watches are so damn plain and boring and sterile. Swapping the band doesn't fix that. I would love a watch that looks like my Fossil 6 but doesn't suck. Why can't Apple make something like that?

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by [deleted] »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125
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.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by unshavedyak »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125
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.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

I wear my watch all day and night, charge it for 30mim while I sip coffee. I don’t get the issues people have around battery life. Mine is on me almost 24 hours a day and a daily charge. Two watches seems dramatic for a single 30m charge a day.

Edit: note on charge, it’s probably more, but it’s just while I sip my coffee. I never pay attention to it despite the claims of battery life woes.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by nine_zeros »

tonymet wrote: post #164
nine_zeros wrote: post #16

I just use whoop these days for better accuracy and battery life. Not interested in the complex screens and notifications.

i've heard plenty of commercials and still don't quite get it. Why whoop?

> Why whoop?

- I want a health and fitness tracker.

- I don't want to be locked into an Apple/Google ecosystem.

- I don't want screens and notifications.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by nradov »

mulderc wrote: post #129
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

I wear my Apple Watch all the time, even when I'm sleeping. I pretty much just charge it when I'm in the shower or getting ready in the morning. It charges super fast, and I've found that having a regular charging routine is actually better for these gadgets. Funny enough, watches with longer battery life can mess up your charging habits. I had this problem with my old Pebble watch. Yeah, the battery lasted longer, b…

Charging your wearable device shouldn't require "habits". If they do then the device is defective by design. Competing watches from Garmin don't seem to have this design flaw.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by hedgehog »

Menu_Overview wrote: post #133
tiltowait wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've thought about this. How much more battery life would they have to build in for it to be noticeably better? When I charge my watch at the end of the day, I usually have plenty to spare, but not always enough to make it through to the morning (especially if I tracked an exercise). Even if a new watch got 24hrs of battery life, I would still have to charge it at night so I wouldn't really matter. I'd guess that 18h…

Three days would be solid, that would get me mid day Friday to mid day Monday. Sleep data is a high priority for me and it's go time pretty much from when I open my eyes (little kids) so I wear the watch pretty much 24h/day. On desk work days I charge there (not much activity to miss) but over the weekend or if I'm traveling that gets disrupted.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by tshaddox »

mulderc wrote: post #129
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

I wear my Apple Watch all the time, even when I'm sleeping. I pretty much just charge it when I'm in the shower or getting ready in the morning. It charges super fast, and I've found that having a regular charging routine is actually better for these gadgets. Funny enough, watches with longer battery life can mess up your charging habits. I had this problem with my old Pebble watch. Yeah, the battery lasted longer, b…

> Funny enough, watches with longer battery life can mess up your charging habits.

My experience with Kindles!

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by tails4e »

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.

Go garmin. I have a vivoactive 5, it has 11 days of battery and loads of stats. I love it. My wife liked mine so much she dumped her Fitbit and now has the same watch. It's great.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by teemaw »

aspenmayer wrote: post #183
vegardx wrote: post #175

I'm mostly happy with my Apple Watch, but you better hope that it doesn't calibrate itself poorly. There's no way to force it to recalibrate and it persists through full reset and even full replacement of the Apple Watch itself. I've more or less given up trying to fix it. So according to Apple I've been standing upright all waking hours for the last 3-4 years. I've heard similar issues for people using crutches. The…

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105048 > Reset your calibration data > Here's how to reset your calibration data: > On your iPhone, open the Watch app. > Tap the My Watch tab, then tap Privacy > Reset Fitness Calibration Data.

I understand this will reset motion calibration data but does anyone know if heart rate measurements also use calibration data? My Ultra 2 always seems to undercount my heart rate compared to my older Series 6. This is especially noticeable during higher intensity workouts.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by Spartan-S63 »

microtonal wrote: post #3

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

I'm hoping that means the Ultra 3 will be more interesting later on, in some way. Maybe a 51mm circular option to compete with Garmin on form factor? Maybe a bigger battery? It's disappointing they broke the lockstep release of the Apple Watch this year, though.

I have an Ultra 1 and the battery life is a lot worse than the Ultra 2, but there's no new watch for me this year, so now I'm stuck.

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