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Post by haswell »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #101
haswell wrote: post #68

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Some concrete reasons I have for wanting that extra battery life: camping, hiking, and road tripping. I can keep up with charging when I have a predictable schedule. When I don’t, I’m always running out of battery and often in the worst moments, i.e. when I’m just starting a hike.

road tripping: you can charge in the car camping and hiking: sure, but for overnight trips, i have a battery pack (for my phone) that also has a magnetic watch pad.

It’s my experience charging it in the car and while camping with portable batteries that makes me want more battery.

Can charge in the car, sure. Will I actually charge it in the car? From experience, it’s a constant struggle because I’m outside of my normal routine and I’m not usually seeing the low battery warnings while I’m in driving mode. I often realize when it’s too late, and then my watch is dead til I’m back on the road for a major segment.

And I just prefer to have fewer things to worry about each day so I can focus on why I’m traveling in the first place.

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Post by gridder »

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.

the Apple watch can be independent from the iPhone. Ask a family member or a friend with an iPhone to set it up, there is an apposite function for it. Just buy one with cellular.

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Post by ProfessorLayton »

stouset wrote: post #285
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #172

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To each their own, I wear my watch in the shower so I can change the song on my bluetooth speaker.

I know the Apple Watch is water resistant, but that doesn’t necessarily include the effect of soaps and detergents. Be careful with those, even if your gear is rated for the water itself.

That would be a very nice excuse to upgrade since I've been waiting for my S3 to kick the bucket for years. It's very scuffed, and have been wearing it to the shower since it was new, and even taken it river rafting.

Yet somehow it's reporting 90% battery capacity. I might finally upgrade anyway, since it's the only device holding me back from enabling advanced data protection on iCloud.

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Post by lqueenan »

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…

Check your weight in the health app. I’ve entered a very low value by mistake and had this happen.

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Post by matrix2003 »

serf wrote: post #288
mulderc wrote: post #129

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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…

every single Apple feature or change creates this kind of weird negative-metric-reinforcement no matter the product whenever the number slides backwards or keeps parity Battery doesn't last long? Well, let's forget that the entire market has trended towards catering to a customer desire for long-life batteries -- it's a feature to help coordinate 'charging habits'!... whatever that is. Less keyboard space and battery…

I largely agree with the parent comment. As of the series 7, charging became a non-issue since it’s so fast. It was painful before that.

And don’t _dare_ compare the charging situation to the touch bar. Let’s just all agree that was an abomination.

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Post by freedomben »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #172
ValentineC wrote: post #156

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+1 to this. I charge whenever I'm in the shower as well, and this routine works for me.

To each their own, I wear my watch in the shower so I can change the song on my bluetooth speaker.

I used to do the same thing, but the UX was never great. I've now bought five of these cheap waterproof bluetooth speaker that has play/pause/skip controls on it, and it was a life changer. I keep one in my suitcase for travelling, one in each bathroom, and have a couple paired in stereo that I keep in my office. It sounds amazingly good for the size and price of the speaker. Some of the best $20 I've spent. Brand is "Notabrick": https://www.amazon.com/NOTABRICK-Bluetooth-Speakers-Portable...

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Post by silverlake »

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.

8 minutes charging gives 8 hours of sleep tracking. Just read the watch page. They improved charging immensely.

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Post by kalium-xyz »

serf wrote: post #288
mulderc wrote: post #129

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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…

every single Apple feature or change creates this kind of weird negative-metric-reinforcement no matter the product whenever the number slides backwards or keeps parity Battery doesn't last long? Well, let's forget that the entire market has trended towards catering to a customer desire for long-life batteries -- it's a feature to help coordinate 'charging habits'!... whatever that is. Less keyboard space and battery…

Worst / funniest case of this (if you have a grim sense of humor) is when early unibody macbook pros would get 70C or so to the touch and physically burn the users to the point of minor scarring. People who’d complain about this would be berated by apple defenders stating that “its not a laptop and apple never called it a laptop. yet at the time a simple search for “laptop site:apple.com” sure seemed to indicate that they are referred to as laptops by apple.

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Post by bakul »

detourdog wrote: post #250
mulderc wrote: post #129

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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…

We used to wind our watches in the morning. I think that could be Apple’s thinking. Your positive experience with a daily routine reenforces that idea to me.

Back in the day many of us switched to automatic mechanical watches that didn't require manually winding.
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