Calling an 18-hour battery life 'all day' still feels like at best borderline fraud to me.
yeah apparently no one told them that for sleep tracking you need to wear it while you sleep.
Apple Watch Series 10
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#342Meh. Stopped wearing my S9 in May. Not sure why I bought it. Think AW wore off here finally. It’s a nice toy but useless for me (even cycling / hiking etc). I take an F91W when I go hiking as it doesn’t need charging.
I still use mine mainly for - sleep tracking combined with Athlytic for Whoop-style metrics (might not be the most accurate, but good enough). also silent alarms - runs tracking -- nice to be able to track my run and listen to a podcast all from the watch - swim tracking -- i guess Garmin is just as good, but love being able to see the screen while swimming to check my progress if the silly cellular plan wasn't such…
> if the silly cellular plan wasn't such a JOKE ($15/month to share my already $60 plan???), I'd enable that and not need to carry my phone for emergencies on hikes/bike rides, etc.
I'm replacing my old Apple Watch without cellular soon with one with cellular, and since my carrier (T-Mobile Connect) did not have any watch support I looked around to see what my options were.
I ended up switching to Verizon Visible. They have two phone plans, Visible for $25/month and Visible+ for $45/month, but frequent promotions or coupons often knock those down by up to $10/month for a year or two. The $45/month plan includes watch support, which is a $10/month add-on to the $25/month plan.
Better than promo codes is they offer annual billing at $275/year for Visible and $395/year for Visible+. Those work out to $22.92/month and 32.92/month, respectively, which means if you are willing to pay annually and want watch support there is no reason to get plain Visible instead of Visible+.
One potential issue with an MVNO like Visible, even when that MVNO is owned by the major carrier whose network they are on, is that their data may be deprioritized first if the underlying network is congested.
Visible+ includes some premium data that is treated exactly the same as Verizon's own traffic. You get unlimited premium data when on 5G Ultra Wideband, and 50 GB/month premium data on 5G and 4G LTE.
If you are fine with those data limits, want a watch on your plan, and don't travel outside the US, Canada, Mexico, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico for more than one day a month (or don't mind having to pay extra for talk/text/data when you do leave those places for more than a day) then Visible+ paid annually was the best deal I could find.
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#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still use mine mainly for - sleep tracking combined with Athlytic for Whoop-style metrics (might not be the most accurate, but good enough). also silent alarms - runs tracking -- nice to be able to track my run and listen to a podcast all from the watch - swim tracking -- i guess Garmin is just as good, but love being able to see the screen while swimming to check my progress if the silly cellular plan wasn't such…
> if the silly cellular plan wasn't such a JOKE ($15/month to share my already $60 plan???), I'd enable that and not need to carry my phone for emergencies on hikes/bike rides, etc. I'm replacing my old Apple Watch without cellular soon with one with cellular, and since my carrier (T-Mobile Connect) did not have any watch support I looked around to see what my options were. I ended up switching to Verizon Visible. Th…
The other thing with MVNO is that they have no or limited roaming.
It's often not a huge deal, but in sparser areas, it starts to matter a bit, at least if you are concerned with coverage.
Re: Apple Watch Series 10
#344I like to upgrade every 2 years to have a fresh tech and battery but I think I’m gonna skip 10 and keep my 8. 9 was already pretty underwhelming and 10 only brings a larger display. I really want a blood pressure sensor. And for the watch to last more than a day. I used to wear my 8 for 24hr a day and charged it while showering or similar. But the battery took a significant hit after about a year of this and Apple re…
yeah my S5 finally dropped below 80% earlier this year and it was nearly unusable by that time. Even now with a fresh battery it's still a lot more battery management than I'd prefer.
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They’re not made from titanium. Last years’s pro phone is. The Apple Card is too. So I did wonder if there was a little of that in there too.
My Apple Card just expired and they sent a package to send back the old one when giving me the new one. Would be pretty neat to know they are being remade into watches.
Exactly what I was thinking. Felt odd shipping a credit card back but I get why.
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That’s a good point. Maybe 36-48 hours? Even then you’re still charging every other day, so is that so much better than every day? 18->120 hours would be a real change, but that’s almost a 7x increase.
For me I need a routine. Charging daily works well for me, else I would want 7 days. I think Apple targeting super quick charging really alleviates the issue for me all together. I’m on an old series 4, and instantly preordered this one. I’m sure it is gonna feel like a whole new level of luxury compared to what I was already pretty happy with.
If you were on a 4 the speed difference, plus the bigger screen, are going to be amazing.
Enjoy it!
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#347Can we get one of these you don't wear on your wrist? I'm all for the exercise and health tracking, but I hate wearing a watch when I'm typing or at a computer a good chunk of the day, where it would be resting on something.
Check out the Solo Loop - not having a clasp is a game changer for desk use of the Watch.
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Your personal preference when it comes to not caring about battery life doesn't change the fact that Apple watch battery life is amongst the worst on the market. Just like if you don't care that your laptop has only 2GB RAM - that doesn't mean it's a good amount of RAM or some kind of advantage over 32GB of RAM. Explaining away objective deficiencies with personal preferences and anecdotes is not at all convincing or…
If a laptop with 2 GB of RAM met my needs and I was happy with it, would you get in an argument with me about how actually my laptop is deficient because other laptops have bigger RAM numbers on their spec sheet, even if my RAM usage never exceeds 2 GB? I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on how important battery life is. To me, improvements beyond “one day including some time with the GPS and heart rate sen…
> If a laptop with 2 GB of RAM met my needs and I was happy with it, would you get in an argument with me about how actually my laptop is deficient because other laptops have bigger RAM numbers on their spec sheet, even if my RAM usage never exceeds 2 GB?
If you tried to make an argument that having the 2GB RAM is an advantage I would challenge you on that. Yes.
> I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on how important battery life is.
I didn't say anything about how important battery life is, and I don't really care. My issue is not with the battery life, but with the absurd reasoning and mental gymnastics you guys are doing to literally try and pretend an objective deficiency is an advantage.
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Your personal preference when it comes to not caring about battery life doesn't change the fact that Apple watch battery life is amongst the worst on the market. Just like if you don't care that your laptop has only 2GB RAM - that doesn't mean it's a good amount of RAM or some kind of advantage over 32GB of RAM. Explaining away objective deficiencies with personal preferences and anecdotes is not at all convincing or…
Does it have the worst battery life on the market when comparing like to like? Garmin isn't like to like since it's not really a smart watch it's an exercise tracker. What are android watches like for battery life that would be a better comparison.
Yes it does, and I can give you many examples. However, the following thing you said tells me that having a rational conversation with you is unlikely:
> Garmin isn't like to like since it's not really a smart watch it's an exercise tracker.