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Apple Watch Series 7 vs. Apple Watch Series 8 Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?
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Same here. Mine is at 82% battery. i am upgrading wife’s S3 though. That thing is a PITA to deal with especially around upgrades. I will wait to see (and hope) that next years design has changed enough to upgrade from a 4.
Yes, very minor update and for most people if you can still get a AW7 for $100+ off they should go for that if they are upgrading from a 5 or older (and even the 5 is iffy). Personally I'm going from a AW5 to a AW8 because I didn't like the color choices of the AW7 and my AW5 is scratched and chipped and the battery life is pretty bad now. Glad they brought back Classic Silver to the AW8 Aluminum model.
Coming from a 3, it WILL be like night and day
According to T-Mobiles webpage on the S8, there is still no support for band 71. 4 years later and still doesn't have this important Band for T-mobile.
Will developers have access to the temperature sensor? I wonder what sort of innovations could from that.
No longer battery life. Exactly the same. If you’re referring to low power mode, that is part of watchOS 9 and works on every AW model 4 and later.
Hell yeahHa, I came on to this thread just to say the same thing, I'm also still on the series 3 and it does everything I need.
I'm still waiting on Apple convincing me that a later model is something I need, or simply want.
Hasn't happened yet.
My series 4 SS's face is perfect. I had my SG aluminum replaced just after the 2 year apple care expired (close enough that they let me reinstate AC) so it's only about and its screen has one large fairly deep scratch and several small ones....
I'm still very happy with my series 5. Doesn't feel like it's slowing down at all, unlike the series 2 I had before which was incredibly laggy. The battery is holding up very well, currently at 54% after 15 hours on my wrist today.
None of the models since have added functionality that I feel I'm missing out on, which only goes to show how much of a great product it is when you think about it. They really knocked it out of the park.
I'll only be upgrading if this one breaks or they bring out a particularly stunning redesign (something slightly slimmer might be nice).
None of the models since have added functionality that I feel I'm missing out on, which only goes to show how much of a great product it is when you think about it. They really knocked it out of the park.
I'll only be upgrading if this one breaks or they bring out a particularly stunning redesign (something slightly slimmer might be nice).
Have you turned AOD off on your S5 to get that battery life. Mine won’t make it to bedtime with it activated and have had to disable it for some months now.
Nope my display is always on! I'm showing 49% now after 16 hours use. If I run 10k+ I might need to charge it for 10/15 minutes to see me through the day, that aside I've never had an issue.
Settings wise I don't have any third party apps on there which I think helps the battery quite a lot. I have background app refresh off too. Also I've never set up the ECG and I have all the cardio and heart notifications switched off (I'm prone to health anxiety so over-diagnosis isn't a good thing for me).
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Not much reason to upgrade from Series 7. Better to wait and see what next year brings for the Apple watch.
Wow. Mine is 2.5 years old but my battery wasn’t performing like yours after a year old. I think I’m on 82% battery health now too. I end the day now with 45% battery left if I disable the AOD, but if it’s on, my watch is shutting down by about 7.30pm. That’s 12 hours use. All my apps are standard on there so have no idea why mines so bad. I’ll look into this deeper I think.
Ahhh. Didn’t know that. So you gotta take your temp normally and input it then it takes that as your baseline and assigns it to the temp it took? Or it just starts with your baseline and you should know your temp at that moment and then it tells you deviations from there?
Yeah that definitely doesn’t seem right. Perhaps mine is doing better than average for some reason, whilst yours is worse than average. My battery health is at 86%.
I think you would like Midnight. That is what I got and it is black 90% of the time and barely perceptible extremely dark navy in some light. It mostly looks black. I actually would prefer a bit more blue but it is very nice looking compared to space gray.
Perhaps but apple doesn’t do certs. It does gimmicks and hides behind “for entertainment purposes only”.
But as mentioned if apple ever did this mythical feature in a reliable manner it changes the game. It’s not well maybe I’ll upgrade. But then we may as well say what if apple did 30 day battery life? It’s just as mythical.