Pure techno BS! Everyone can feel elevated heart rate. Don't need an Apple Watch to tell me that...
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Sounds like fear mongering to push watch sales.
With such short HRM battery life and questionable accuracy you're better off using the reliable two finger method approved by doctors and nurses that works 24 hours without needing to be recharged.
With such short HRM battery life and questionable accuracy you're better off using the reliable two finger method approved by doctors and nurses that works 24 hours without needing to be recharged.
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“Normal” resting heart rate is defined as 60-100 beats per minute.
Above 100 is called “tachycardia”
Below 60 is called “bradycardia”
If you are healthy and resting (not exercising) and have a heart rate above 100, this would be considered abnormal
Right...We're talking about different products with different features and functionality.
Thus my answer up above to your original question #51: "I still struggle to understand why is it that the apple watch can't have more than 1 day of battery."
Not that much of a struggle to understand why a product that does less and has less features, requires less battery capacity, and can thus last longer for a similar battery size.
While it is true that high body fat levels would increase muscle workload, thus elevating heart rate, anything above 90 beats per minute in a resting state of the body is generally considered tachycardia or an abnormally high cardiac rate regardless of body weight.
Cool. Post a link to that study showing significant numbers of people (you wrote “drop in the bucket”) are having their lives ruined by smartphone addiction. Or are you just Trumping us by making stuff up?
This is cool feature more people should be made aware of. Of course there will be false alarms but until I see a study showing there are so many false alarms that it renders the feature useless I am have to believe this is a good thing. Oh, and as to the Apple Watch being too expensive, well, compared to what? Let everyone know a device with a similar feature that is both reliable and cheaper and you will have done a good service here.
According to my experience, the accuracy of the sensor depends on how tight you wear the watch and how much hair you have on your wrist.
I gest the apple watch is more than just looking at the time. Happy to hear that the man is still breathing.
My uncle died last year wearing an Apple Watch running watchOS 3. He had come home from the gym and was feeling a bit out of sorts, more tired than usual and slightly dizzy or faint. He relaxed in his chair for a bit, then went outside to wash his truck. My aunt and cousins found him a while later lying dead on the ground next to his truck. Massive heart attack. He was in great shape, but used to be a lot heavier years ago when he didn't take care of himself as well. From what I understand he went to a cardiologist for regular checkups. He was 53. I always wonder if I would still have my uncle today if that software had somehow come out a little earlier. At least other people are benefiting from it today, and his death was a huge motivating factor for myself to eat healthier, become more active, and lose weight.
Why do people (including Tim Cook) use over-priced coffee as a means to justify the cost of a product?
Cool story, but take it for what it is, one story, nothing more, nothing less. Yes, most people can feel an elevated heart rate, yes, apple watches are expensive, etc.
Sure, it's promoting the watch, but you do realize how silly this suggestion sounds when the discussion is about 24/7 continuous monitoring, right?
Because most people don’t understand what’s behind a price point, especially if it includes R&D.
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Sounds like fear mongering to push watch sales.
With such short HRM battery life and questionable accuracy you're better off using the reliable two finger method approved by doctors and nurses that works 24 hours without needing to be recharged.
As far as I know the two are not mutually exclusive. In addition, one is almost 24h/day the other is not.
Does this elevated heart rate detection know when you are quiescent vs. when you are working out? I regularly push my heart rate north of 160 on my bicycle (and have seen north of 200 a couple of times this year). I don't want false positives.
I haven't pulled the trigger on a watch yet. I'm still waiting for glucose monitoring.
I haven't pulled the trigger on a watch yet. I'm still waiting for glucose monitoring.
As cardiologists will tell you, the first sign of heart disease is often death. A better heart monitor might have saved your uncle, or maybe not. I wonder how many people who use them take these warnings seriously if they are otherwise feeling fine. We tend to trust our instincts over objective information, especially where our bodies are concerned.
Yeah, I have between 75%-85% left after wearing all day so I suspect I'd get 2.5-3 days without charging. I may try it and see now. (And in airplane mode, it lasted 4-5 days and was still going when we were on a trip outside the US).
Sounds like fear mongering to push watch sales.
With such short HRM battery life and questionable accuracy you're better off using the reliable two finger method approved by doctors and nurses that works 24 hours without needing to be recharged.
Baloney. You can walk around all day long with your fingers on your neck or wrist. Have fun with that.
The message this guy was sent probably included that, I doubt he was sent one sentence like the initial post shows. But its Tim Cook, so everyone just assumes the worst for whatever reason.
The study isn’t connected to this particular feature of the Apple Watch, it will tell you on its own if your heart rate is above normal without being in the heart study.
The article itself says:
"When enabled, the feature notifies the wearer if their heart rate remains above a chosen beats per minute while they appear to have been inactive for a period of 10 minutes."
So, yes. I've never had it go off even when I've been on a treadmill, bike, or elliptical for even 45-50 minutes.
So trolls think Apple is getting random people to make up stories like this to scare others into buying an Apple Watch? Man the Apple Derangement Syndrome keeps getting more ridiculous.
Heart tests for blocked arteries should be done every 5 years after a certain age as preventative care just like for colon cancer. Insurance companies don't want to do that, because if you have a massive heart attack and die, it costs them nothing, whereas with colon cancer it could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat if not discovered early through testing.