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Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by John23832 »

sigilis wrote: post #45
John23832 wrote: post #36

I really like my Apple Watch. I use it for what it is, a glorified fitness tracker with additional "communicator" tech. My only request would be that they make an "Apple bracelet" so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It's a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.

Wear two watches and your problems are largely solved. You can even take off the Apple one for fancy events where you want to look like less of a… two watch wearer.

Ha... yea.. I can't become a double watch wearer ha. As someone who like actual watches, that's too much of a faux pas.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by michaelteter »

lostlogin wrote: post #24
michaelteter wrote: post #18

I got rid of mine because of the battery as well. The benefits didn't outweigh the extra mental overhead of having one more thing to manage daily. Except for times when I want to capture health data, or when I'm exercising, I wear nothing. After all, I always have my phone with me, so I always know what time it is. But when I want to wear a watch, my Garmin Venu SQ2 provides nearly as good activity and health trackin…

> for times when I want to capture health data, or when I'm exercising, I wear nothing. I think I’m misreading this - you exercise naked?

Haha. Read it however you like. Yoga is the only single person sport I can imagine doing naked... running and weight lifting seems like a huge risk.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by keymon-o »

Log_out_ wrote: post #17
keymon-o wrote: post #3

I understand the issues you experience. I don’t get the point you are trying to make. I have a cheaper smartwatch and a dirty cheap robot cleaner. Cheaper smartwatch has e-ink screen, notifications, payment, health monitors, etc. It doesn’t have all possible smart features, but in return I got 30d battery life. Cheap robot vacuum cleaner is based on basic sensors, no lidar or recognition systems. It gets stuck in cab…

Wasn't there a version with self winding but no surplus return to battery. It had no health sensors though as a extrem low energy device. If I recall correctly the winding energy was directly used up for operations to spare the battery. Someone help me out, the core was some SOC from TI..

Sequent Supercharger smartwatch series perhaps?

I actually never heard about it but I guess we now live in the era of “gpt is your friend”. :)

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by nemo8551 »

wkjagt wrote: post #37
slimebot80 wrote: post #32

Bought a watch to monitor fitness, then settles on a Casio that doesn't? Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

I rarely carry my cell phone. I often even don’t know where it is. For telling time, I have an F-91W. It does a great job at that (except for when it’s dark, the silly light only barely illuminates the left side of the screen). I don’t know how long the battery lasts, but it’s been working for years.

W-86 for the win.

I had an f91w until a friend broke the strap, he bought me the 86 as a replacement and the illuminator function was game changing (spent a lot of time in the dark due to work so it was welcome).

My son uses it now, he’s young so it’s a great watch for him.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by wkjagt »

nemo8551 wrote: post #54
wkjagt wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I rarely carry my cell phone. I often even don’t know where it is. For telling time, I have an F-91W. It does a great job at that (except for when it’s dark, the silly light only barely illuminates the left side of the screen). I don’t know how long the battery lasts, but it’s been working for years.

W-86 for the win. I had an f91w until a friend broke the strap, he bought me the 86 as a replacement and the illuminator function was game changing (spent a lot of time in the dark due to work so it was welcome). My son uses it now, he’s young so it’s a great watch for him.

Oh nice! I may put this one under the Christmas tree for myself :D

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by bestham »

nradov wrote: post #35
bestham wrote: post #15

Somehow, this really resonates with me. I have used an Apple Watch off and on the last three years. While I have no problem keeping it charged, doing so is still a chore. When I wake up, I remove my iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch from the charger. Some mornings it feels like my sole purpose in life is to dress myself in technology and while keeping the various integrated batteries topped off. I got the watch for the…

If charging is an issue for you, Garmin has smart watches available in a variety of styles with battery life up to several weeks (including solar charging on some models).

The main issue is not having a normal watch that is not a bunch of pixels. I love my G-shock and Seiko mechanical watch and as a bonus they are far better at telling the time.
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