Sorry I must have misunderstood. Sounded like you were comparing the AW accuracy to a treadmill from Sears.
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Apple Releases First Apple Watch Software Update With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
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Sorry I must have misunderstood. Sounded like you were comparing the AW accuracy to a treadmill from Sears.
Hows Siri? It has been terrible and laggy. I want to send a text and 100% of the time it doest work. Have to attempt talking to it about 3 timea for it to register what i am saying. It has been frustrating.
It works so much better. She lets you pause to say what you want now and she registers everything quickly and accurately.
I even composed something and is was wrong but then the preview was corrected. I have been testing Siri all night and she has not failed.
Update no problem. Took about 20 minutes overall. Not bad since it was an update that was tied to the phone.
Haven't had the opportunity to check out what the update brings, but Apple has made this, to me, a simple process.
Haven't had the opportunity to check out what the update brings, but Apple has made this, to me, a simple process.
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Thank you for the reply. I just checked and it's at 0. No big deal as I only asked twice to test out Siri and have it reply with something other than handoff. Next time i'll just stick to asking it to open a watch app.
Same here. Impressed by the accuracy of the HR monitor versus my chest strap, but the 7-10% shorter distance than the GPS through MapMyRun is odd. We'll see what the update does...
Hoping one day that the Alarms on the phone can be displayed and adjusted on the Watch. And I still don't get it why the running Timer started on the phone cannot be shown on the Watch...
I agree with you, but it would be nice to know which one is closer to the real calorie burn, realizing that they are all formula-derived estimates. As it is, I don't know which to place any confidence in.
The "scientific" formulas are inaccurate too, unless you only eat industrial and over-processed food since it tends to be very normalized.
For instance, you can have very different wines that are only a few kilometers apart. One of the reason is exposure to sun or to rain. Because more sun means a different grape - more sugar for instance (and so more calories).
Likewise, if you eat meat, you know that chicken or cow have a different tastes (mostly due to the quality of the fat and muscle), depending on whether they were in freedom or in battery. Likewise, race or feeding also has an impact on fat content and fat quality.
It's very easy to give the caloric content of Nutella down to the single digit, but it's very difficult with natural products...
When you look at a calorie table, all the grapes in the world have the same sugar content and calories... All the same cut of cows in the world have the same fat content.
And on the other end, depending on intestinal flora, not everyone digest exactly the same way. And depending on training, you don't spend energy the same way.
Calorie table and calorie expenditure table only show an average - individuals and foods can vary a lot from that average. Averages should be used to assess averages, not to determine individual actions.
The only scientific method of calculating calories is to use a calorimeter and it's expensive and impractical. The only precise method is our brain which has a lot of redundant inputs to assess energy homeostasis.
That's why the calorie reading on exercising devices is the most meaningless. There is no way it can be precise or even useful. There are much more useful readings, such as your heart rate compared to your energy output or how fast your heart rate decreases when you stop, because both are good indicators of progress and cardiovascular health.
Two watch updates and un-pairing and re-pairings later and my I still can't receive digital touches from my wife, even when she is literally replying to mine.
Two watch updates and un-pairing and re-pairings later and my I still can't receive digital touches from my wife, even when she is literally replying to mine.
Had a similar issue. When I looked at my contact info on my wife's Watch, it only had the number synced and didn't look right. I removed my contact from her phone, and then re-added it through the contacts app and then added my contact to her friends list on the watch through the companion app. That fixed it. It took several iterations of removing and adding my contact several different ways before I happened on that sequence which worked.
I noticed that when you put your watch on the charger there is a ring around the face that shows the current charge level as well as displaying the current charge percentage.
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Whoa! Battery life is a lot better. I've been wearing my watch to bed every weeknight since I owned it to wake up at 4:30am without disturbing my wife. Usually I am down to about 85% after a nights sleep of about 6 hours. If I'm using Airplane mode I am around 90%. This morning I woke up to 95%!!! Granted this is unscientific and I probably got about an hour less sleep last night than usual (hard to say since this thing doesn't sleep track... yet)
Also as others have said the vibration IS a little stronger. Most notably it's louder than before since the vibration is stronger it's a little bit audible now. I did notice last night at one point while I was awake and walking around that I got the sensation that the watch was falling off my arm. But it was just a vibration from a message or something.
Going to test it out at the gym now.
Whoa! Battery life is a lot better. I've been wearing my watch to bed every weeknight since I owned it to wake up at 4:30am without disturbing my wife. Usually I am down to about 85% after a nights sleep of about 6 hours. If I'm using Airplane mode I am around 90%. This morning I woke up to 95%!!! Granted this is unscientific and I probably got about an hour less sleep last night than usual (hard to say since this thing doesn't sleep track... yet)
Also as others have said the vibration IS a little stronger. Most notably it's louder than before since the vibration is stronger it's a little bit audible now. I did notice last night at one point while I was awake and walking around that I got the sensation that the watch was falling off my arm. But it was just a vibration from a message or something.
Going to test it out at the gym now.
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Let me guess, you were in AV club. Oh. My.
Go back under your bridge.
Let me guess, you were in AV club. Oh. My.
Go back under your bridge.
You can swipe with your finger between the days tho... the "today" view always existed it just wasn't the default. Once you switch back to the "list" view you should be good as it saves your preference.
Yeah! Now the timer is logical....
Before when I set a timer on the watch via Siri it was a complete PITA to get back to see where you were in the process. Had to launch the timer App.
Now even minutes later the watch defaults back to the timer when you wake it up.
Also, the timer and stop watch icons need to be changed to better be able to see which is which. At first glance the look so much the same that getting to the right one is harder than it needs to be (without SIRI).
Before when I set a timer on the watch via Siri it was a complete PITA to get back to see where you were in the process. Had to launch the timer App.
Now even minutes later the watch defaults back to the timer when you wake it up.
Also, the timer and stop watch icons need to be changed to better be able to see which is which. At first glance the look so much the same that getting to the right one is harder than it needs to be (without SIRI).
Garmin chest straps can be very finicky. You must rinse in water after every run so you don't build up salt around the sensors.
But, Garmin's new watches are now coming out and are no longer relying on a chest strap for heart rate. I don't know if they do cadence or vertical oscillation.
That may be your experience but I hardly think it applies to most people. I've used Garmin HR straps for years and they've worked reliably; no need to clean the sensors. This is true with several of my friends who also use them. The new Garmin (FR 225) does cadence but not vertical oscillation.
I think it's just you two. You can send heartbeats to each other.
Hope the $17,000 was worth it.
Same here, no problems. Who knows, maybe the FR 6XX will come out with optical HR monitoring and running dynamics without the HR strap. HRV in optical sensor applications have been showing promise lately.