If there are no new sensors, would seem we will see some sort of [more significant] hardware refresh. I've been liking the sound of "rugged."
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Gurman: Apple Watch Series 8 to Bring 'Major Updates to Activity Tracking'
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I’ll be upgrading my Series 5 this year, most likely to the rumored rugged model, unless the watch looks like the Series 7 with no new sensors. Even with AoD kept on, my non-Cullular 44mm Series 5 is still above 25% after 14 hours on wrist. I’ve been very impressed with this watch.
My wish list would be glucose monitoring (pipe dream for now I know), more squared edge design, rugged chassis, increased battery size to maybe go 2 days without charging.
My wish list would be glucose monitoring (pipe dream for now I know), more squared edge design, rugged chassis, increased battery size to maybe go 2 days without charging.
I too have a series 5 and I consistently get more than 24 hours of use out of it. Of course I’ve turned off the AOD, since I almost always wear a long sleeve shirt and there is no sense in having the display waste battery life while hidden from view. I work out 6 days a week for about an hour each day, and wear it during sleep too, so it’s not like it’s doing nothing and still performing well. Not to say that I wouldn’t love to get more than that out of the battery, but I charge so many things it’s really a non-issue for me. I’m most interested in a design change to the Watch this year, but won’t complain about added fitness or health tracking.
I would like to see better fitness tracking. I always wonder why the Apple Watch lags behind FitBit in terms of fitness tracking. With a FitBit you never have to start or stop an exercise (except weight lifting) you just went out, exercised, and boom your activity was logged - hands off.
Does anyone finds these statements kinda contradictory:
"this year will be the biggest in the history of the Apple Watch"
"II wouldn't expect any major new health sensors this year, besides the possible inclusion of the oft-discussed body temperature feature. But look out for major updates to activity tracking and faster chips across the board."
"this year will be the biggest in the history of the Apple Watch"
"II wouldn't expect any major new health sensors this year, besides the possible inclusion of the oft-discussed body temperature feature. But look out for major updates to activity tracking and faster chips across the board."
I was absolutely feeling the same thing… and could only arrive at the cynical answer that they must be increasing the sizes 1mm again. The biggest they’ve ever been.
Yes, GPS version. I would have considered the cellular version if it was actually any good at using for texting or any other input. But it isn't for me, which is why I usually end up pulling out my iPhone. Also my carrier doesn't support it anyway and was told the cellular version even gets worse battery life. Again pretty ridiculous after all these years I still can't even say "Hey Siri, start/stop/pause outdoor walk" without either having my iPhone will me or the cellular version.
I really don't get how people get that much life out of it. Again this is my 4th version. I am pretty active as I do a ~4 mile walk every morning and a ~2 mile walk in the early evening on top of playing tennis or pickleball or going to the gym ~5 times a week. But other than that I don't use it to text/talk/play music or anything else other than receive some notices - again partly because it isn't good at it and partly because I don't want it get any less battery time than I already do!
This is the only Apple product that I wish would get thinner, just for wear comfort.
I'm still on my S5, and it's fine. I only upgraded from an S4 because it had the always on display, because the raise to wake sensing was always flaky I found, and I had to wave my hand around or touch or push a button. AOD solved those issues.
I like my S5 but it's kinda useless for activity tracking outside of Apple's health ecosystem (which sets the bar quite low).
They should start "innovating" by finally removing that ridiculous 8 GB limit on media files on our 32 GB watches, introduced in watchOS 7.
watchOS 7 limits media storage to 8 GB
Here's the lovely message I'm getting since upgrading my Apple Watch 5 Series to watchOS 7: Out of Media Storage The storage space dedicated to media on your Apple Watch is full. To make space available, you can remove some podcasts, music or audiobooks. Which is weird because, according t
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And needs a battery to match. Until the the Apple Watch can get me through a full Ironman I’ll be sticking with my Garmin
Obviously everyone has different use cases and results, but it seems strange that you’re not getting more battery life out of it, especially for having the GPS version. I’ve got the cellular version and don’t normally text on it, but do take the occasional phone call.
Not interested in the body temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar of my watch. Also I am not about to give it activity tracking.
A Fenix 7+ couldn’t get me through a full Iron Man. My problem is more motivational than technical. Good luck with your training.
Apple should fix the bugs, like Siri no longer launching a workout on my watch when I command it to through my AirPods.
And why do I have to walk a mile before my AW recognizes (if ever) that I’m walking outside when it AND my iPhone has a built in GPS?? It’s almost as if Apple engineers and executives don’t really use this stuff.
And why do I have to walk a mile before my AW recognizes (if ever) that I’m walking outside when it AND my iPhone has a built in GPS?? It’s almost as if Apple engineers and executives don’t really use this stuff.
If you think the watch is not fast enough, you probably need to slow down.