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'Apple Watch Pro' Rumored to Feature Larger 47mm Case Size With Flat Display
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Wow! I think you would qualify as a “super fan“ and should not consider yourself to be typical.
The rounded edge phones might have been a little more comfortable in your hand… until they slipped out and hit the ground. The flat sided phones are not uncomfortable and are much easier to grip.
I don’t know why you are getting such low battery range. I have owned an S4 and an S7 (both GPS only) and both tend to get around 30 hours of battery life even when I use the GPS for a 30-minute run each day. I do have most notifications turned off. I do sleep tracking and at night I hit the “theatre mode” button mainly because I don’t want the screen to light up as a move around in bed. I charge during my first call of the day. Most mornings I have around 30% of charge remaining when I get up. By the time I upgraded the S4, it was getting down to around 25% in the morning. I do keep my phone with me when I do runs so the watch is not searching and running on its own.
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So either buy something that doesn’t do as much, isn’t as accurate, but nevertheless looks great.
Or buy something that ’is ugly’ but does a lot and works great.
It sounds like a compromise either way.
Annual upgrades is unnecessary for most people, given how reliable Apple hardware is. I'm waiting for the new Series 8 Apple Watch only because my Series 4 died after a swim in the river. Infinite boot loop. So the 4 lasted me... 4 years?
Bear in mind that speed-charging batteries actually lessens their life. Trickle charging is always better for a battery.
There are a few things wrong with this statement:
- You should never trickle charge lithium batteries:
”It is important to note that trickle charging is not acceptable for lithium batteries”
https://www.powerstream.com/li.htm - The “fast charge” rate offered for the Apple Watch Series 7, is only ~1C, which is a decently conservative rate for lithium batteries:
”The safest way to charge a lipo battery and the one that puts the least amount of strain on your battery is to charge at a rate of "1C" or 1 times capacity.”
- If you meant slow charging, maybe, over 5 years, you might notice some difference, but then you’ve cheated yourself of the utility of the device you’ve been charging because you slow charged it for 1/8th of the day, when it was supposed to be providing the many functions that you purchased it for.
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I'm the opposite. The bigger the better with AW so I don't have to keep dragging my 13 Mini around everywhere.
The Garmin Fenix line is 44, 47 and 51mm. They sell like hotcakes and are arguably a better fitness watch.
He'll be remembered as being the CEO during Apple's most profitable years.
Well, given Garmin takes the lion share of profit in premium fitness watches, I guess that's where Apple have set their sights.
Not sure they quite understand that market yet though where battery life is already >1 week for Garmin's 47mm OLED "Epic 2". The 51mm Fenix 7 has 213hr max battery with GPS which extends to 578hrs with 3hrs of sunlight per day.
I love it!! I'm actually ordering one from Amazon. I will tell people this is Apple's new Watch. LOLYeah,I hate those
The smallest Fenix is 42mm, which is still wearable for someone with a small wrist.
Well there were technological reasons to go from, say, the 30-pin connector to Lightning; that was progress. What progress is there to make with the watch band connecting system? It was quite innovative, actually, when it first came out, making changing the strap of the Watch much easier and faster than that of „regular“ watches. So it‘s basically perfect already. Size would be the only reason to add another tier, but I assume that tier would still have the same connecting system. And we‘ll always have the sizes we have now, too, because not everyone has giant wrists. So while „not ever“ is a very long time, I actually do think the old straps will not ever become incompatible with new Watches.
Compared to the Apple Watch, they really don‘t.
I think I'm more curious if the re design makes its way to the lower models in the following years. If a 45mm aluminum already runs ~$800 I am guessing this pushes $1000. Can't do it 😢
I've had every model Garmin Fenix including many of the special editions. I am also beta tester for their software.
My experience here is that "support" forums are great places to find people who apparently have problems. Those that are happy, don't tend to post about it so it sorta become an echo chamber. My experience also shows, that many of the issues people are having are user error, not software, or user expectation much greater than the technology currently allows such as:
"How come my GPS tracks are so far off course - I didn't pay $1,000 plus for this performance?". When we dig into their use case it's running through canyons with overhangs and significant tree coverage yet still a) actually gives a track and b) it's less than 10m off actual.
"How come the pulse oximetry doesn't match my medical pulse oximeter - I don't pay $1,000 for performance worse than a $100 chemist device?". a) It's not a medical device, b) it's not certified, c) wrist pulse oximetry is much harder to pull off than finger tip pulse oximetry and d) pulse oximetry on the watch is for altitude acclimation and sleeping (where you're not moving), not running pulse oximetry.
Granted, there are still some issues which are generally fixed very quickly.
$999 or so might seem a lot for a smartwatch, but actually that would make it just as expensive as an Apple display stand.
Good point. Apple should start selling all kinds of office furniture.
Apple chair, only $4,999.99. Polishing cloth extra. I bet it would sell like hotcakes.
I think this is a stupid idea. People are willing to spend $800-$1000 on an Apple Watch? You have had the same design/chip for years now, just update the normal watch already. I've been in the market for a new Apple Watch for probably 3 years now and they can't seem to bring out anything worthwhile.
“Most people” won’t be buying it. Of all the people in the world, very few percentage wise will ever own an Apple Watch Pro.
I thought it was screen size not the entire face. My bad. Mainly because every other device is measured by screen size. Learned something.