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I wear a $15 Casio - so why am I reviewing smartwatches?
I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
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Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
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How many seconds of time accuracy have you found that this watch loses over the course of its 7-year-long battery life? I think I can handle it losing 30 seconds of accuracy per year.
It's more like 30 per month. It really depends a lot how much you wear it outside because it's not temperature compensated. I don't really mind a lot because I will just adjust it once in a while. But I wouldn't claim it to be an accurate movement.
Oh, it's adjustable!? In that case, who cares?
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
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Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
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W-800H is my daily-wear cheap watch here I had a Pebble and then an Apple Watch. I came to the conclusion I prefer my watches to be tools and not devices. Watches that are tools are cool. Aviation watches, dive watches, etc etc. So much cooler than a smartwatch.
To give a counterpoint, I have worn watches every day for the past 20 years and own both a nice Bauhaus watch, a diver and a cheap field watch. I finally decided to buy an Apple Watch last year to mostly use as a running watch and see what the fuss was about. I’m never coming back. This thing cut my phone use like nothing before. Having access to notifications at a glance without taking your phone out is awesome.
I don't like the Apple watch because of the alerts.
I wish it had geofencing and other custom rules so I could say "give me these notifications all the time, and these other ones when I'm away from home, these when I'm in the office", etc.
Otherwise every notification I get during the average workday happens on my Mac, my iPhone, and my Watch at the same time. It's like sensory overload making every little thing seem like an emergency. So in conclusion I really don't enjoy the ding ding ding of my watch all the time. It makes it extremely hard to disconnect when even your watch is harassing you. I tried turning off all notifications, but then it's less functional than a normal watch.
The new DND custom features are almost there. Maybe in a couple years...
I'll admit it was nice when I was biking 40mi routes regularly or running for use with Strava or something, but I can just bring my phone...
Also trying to do any input on the watch is so painful.
Idea is great, execution is still so far away from where it should be.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#45what i would like is a fitness/health-tracking wearable that does not have a screen. i want a faceless waves hands bracelet something on my wrist that will track all of my health & bio stats and sends it to/syncs it with my phone.
It’s called a Whoop, check it out.
$30/month subscription for a fitness tracker? Ew
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, apart from one is a $20 watch and an insignificant investment of time and energy versus a lot of expensive, risky hoops with a high-level of skill to pull off. People always lean on this analogy of cars, but frequently there's no analogy required. The watch mod isn't for you and that's fine.
Thanks for the condensation. It's just a philosophical comment along the lines of the Ship of Theseus, can it still be called the F91W if you replace a major component? Especially saying "Ah yeah the F91W can run custom software, just gut it out add a component to run that software!". Maybe philosophy isn't for you, and that's fine.
If you swap out the CPU on your computer, is your computer still the same computer? Something has changed. Perhaps a more accurate way of looking at a model name like an F91W is that it's a configuration of components. Ergo, an "F91W configuration can be modified to do xyz". Is it based off of an F91W? Yup. The information that's being conveyed is that if you own a cheap F91W, for a few bucks in parts and a little time, you can do something interesting with it.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#47I’ve got a Garmin 7x. Sometimes I think about switching to something like this as I’m going through an unhealthy phase and not utilising the smart watch capability very much. However, I can’t give up the torch. I cannot believe how handy it is having a torch two button clicks away on my wrist, wherever I am, as opposed to fumbling in my pocket or searching around for my phone or a torch. Use it every day, absolute ga…
I have the Garmin Epix gen 2. It doesn't have the edge flashlight of the 7x, but I like the light it does have, especially at the bright red setting. It's enough for me to see by without messing up my night vision. The double click access is great. And, with my current settings, I love the 14 day battery life of this compared with the approximately 1 day of my prior Apple Watch 6. I also like that I can switch iOS/Android without having to get a different watch to use with the other phone.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's more like 30 per month. It really depends a lot how much you wear it outside because it's not temperature compensated. I don't really mind a lot because I will just adjust it once in a while. But I wouldn't claim it to be an accurate movement.
Oh, it's adjustable!? In that case, who cares?
Of course you can just set the time again when it's wrong.
It doesn't have an adjustable offset no. But it doesn't work like that because it's temperature dependent anyway. So the offset is not stable.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
To give a counterpoint, I have worn watches every day for the past 20 years and own both a nice Bauhaus watch, a diver and a cheap field watch. I finally decided to buy an Apple Watch last year to mostly use as a running watch and see what the fuss was about. I’m never coming back. This thing cut my phone use like nothing before. Having access to notifications at a glance without taking your phone out is awesome.
I don't like the Apple watch because of the alerts. I wish it had geofencing and other custom rules so I could say "give me these notifications all the time, and these other ones when I'm away from home, these when I'm in the office", etc. Otherwise every notification I get during the average workday happens on my Mac, my iPhone, and my Watch at the same time. It's like sensory overload making every little thing seem…
Yeah I'd love this too on my phone even. That when I'm home my phone stays silent and just sends me notifications to my computer which is always on anyway.
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