Buy a S4? You could probably get one cheaper when some store wants to get rid of their on hands. Unless you absolutely need the compass feature.
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Apple Watch Series 5 Hands On: Always-On Display is Great, but Otherwise Not Much of an Upgrade
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So about four years it has burn in. I wonder how much this has to do with its age or older display design. I guess if you plan on keeping it for years this might be an issue but personally I couldn't imagine keeping my AW more than two years.
Someone on Twitter posted it's now 32 gb.
It’s disappointing that, according the website, the Titanium weighs exactly the same as Steel.
Actually im happy about the S5.....i get to keep my S4 another year knowing im not missing out on anything worthy.
Oh wow that doesn't make sense at all. Titanium plated SS? In that case I would not want it because I dislike heavy watches.
Ordered one as soon as the keynote ended.
yeehaw.
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yeehaw.
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Most people are here just to bitch about EVERYTHING.
Don’t laugh, I’m still sporting my Series 0 Watch. It barely works for anything other than telling time.
I was all set to upgrade last year, until I ended up buying a new home, and decided the watch money could be better spent on something like a washer & dryer.
AW5 is a no-brainer for me this year. Visually it is stunning. On the outside, it doesn’t even look like the same watch from 5 years ago, not to mention what’s on the inside.
And that ceramic. WOW. I was hoping pricing would fall around where the titanium did. So it’s stainless again for me. I do wish Apple would do another stainless band. The (retired) link was too bulky for my wrist, and the Milanese Loop, is too feminine looking (IMO).
I was all set to upgrade last year, until I ended up buying a new home, and decided the watch money could be better spent on something like a washer & dryer.
AW5 is a no-brainer for me this year. Visually it is stunning. On the outside, it doesn’t even look like the same watch from 5 years ago, not to mention what’s on the inside.
And that ceramic. WOW. I was hoping pricing would fall around where the titanium did. So it’s stainless again for me. I do wish Apple would do another stainless band. The (retired) link was too bulky for my wrist, and the Milanese Loop, is too feminine looking (IMO).
Except it doesn’t have all the low power display components so your battery will die.
I don’t know guys, I think I’ll still wait for Apple Watch Pro.
My AW4 is giving me grief (active minutes not measuring right), but I suspect its software related. It just ends up making me exercise that much longer.
I'm ok with the price of the AW5, the trade in values are offensive though. Last year, the AW3 was $250 trade in value for SS. This year, the maximum trade in is $120. That is beyond ridiculous. I will wait to see it in store and decide then.
I'm ok with the price of the AW5, the trade in values are offensive though. Last year, the AW3 was $250 trade in value for SS. This year, the maximum trade in is $120. That is beyond ridiculous. I will wait to see it in store and decide then.
Perhaps watch the keynote where they go into great detail why your wrong.
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Lol saying it’s not a big upgrade from an s0
In simple words:
S4 owners, look elsewhere. Nothing to see this year. Your watch still works perfectly fine.
S3 or older owners, maybe a good investment depending on how good is your watch's battery now. If it is still doing fine, read above.
S4 owners, look elsewhere. Nothing to see this year. Your watch still works perfectly fine.
S3 or older owners, maybe a good investment depending on how good is your watch's battery now. If it is still doing fine, read above.
I feel this “always on” feature can be done in a simple software upgrade and be available to all watch models. Of course more battery usage but then I don’t think series 4 and series 3 are too old to not have this feature.
I don’t think you are alone. I have S3 and my wife has S4 and despite doing the same walk at the same cadence, she has to work about 40% more to get the same credit. Something amiss either in mine or hers.
That's why Theater mode was created.I see no reason to upgrade from a 3 to this. What's the big deal about the always-on display? Yeah it's nice, I guess, but is it really that difficult to move your wrist to make the screen come on? This is the amazing innovation from Apple now? Geesh.
Plus, what about if I don't want info popping up for everyone to see, if my wrist/arm is pointed away from my face but toward people sitting next to me, in a meeting, etc.? So now we have to turn alerts off or will it not show until you.. move your wrist?
you could download the Apple eBook for it and find out more about it (it should be on the iBooks Store for free)
I’ll consider buying one when it comes in a landscape shape, I don’t need a mini iPhone on my wrist.
It could have an AOD but without LTPO OLED you’d just waste that battery life for such a little, meaningless improvement. Not to mention the potential burn in for AOD on a regular OLED.
Dynamic refresh rate is the key here, and AWS4 didn’t have that.
That wasn't what I meant.
I think they had the tech and the whole product as something that could have released last year as a "better" S4 than what they released and they purposely broke it up to make 2 releases out of 1.
This is by far the best thing to come out of the keynote today. I didn’t think we were gonna get an always on display until they finally went with micro LED.