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Hands-On With the New Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE
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Actually the price is indeed lowered here, compared to S5. But even if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t have any significance, as the tech in the S5 and the S6 is too different to allow for a serious comparison.
What does it feel like, and how long does that process take? You left out some key information, Doctor Cloudyo.
PS If the reading is lower than 70, is it really necessary to know just exactly how much lower it is? Should I wait to go to the ER until it hits 65 or 60 or a lower number? If so I’ll need a different pulse oximeter.
Thanks in advance doc.
Fine for you, sure. I wish it was a lot thicker so it could have a bigger battery.
Cook has driven the profit margin on hardware down from the high 30s or even 40s down to below 30% in the most recent quarter.
I have absolutely no doubt sleep apnea detection is next. All the requirements are in place, as far as I can tell, but I have no idea if it would have to go through regulatory or if it’s possible to make it useful without needing it.
Hence the very reason that they should not skip out on that to screw the consumer. 🤣
So for the few who don’t have a drawerful of them (or their Android equivalent), Apple should spend $100+ million—that must be made up somewhere else—and continue plowing 6,000,000 kg per year into landfills?
Nah.
That sounds good. I think it's time for me to get my first apple watch. Besides the good look it's convenient to have all that possibilities directly on your wrist.
Have you looked at men’s watches over the last couple decades? They’re pretty chunky/huge, but probably aren’t a good fit with small, dainty wrists like yours (nice pic btw!)
So I can understand why some want them thinner. I guess you don’t understand why some would want a bigger battery though?
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PS Am I doing it right? I wanna keep up wit da kidz 🤣
me small hand . But if no apple watch prefer casio gschock. I no need even 300 or above watch.
The only android watch maybe someday xiomi amazfit trex.
Sounds like you're in the market for the SE if those are whats holding you back. I just upgraded my series 2 and the speed difference alone is worth it to me
My space black edition series 6 with the Inverness green braided solo loop band arrived today—a great replacement for a badly scratched up series 4 space gray aluminum.
A couple of observations:
1) the sizing guide of the braided loop is mostly accurate. I was between a 5 and a 6, went with the 6, and find it slightly looser than I’m used to. I’ll keep it though, as it doesn’t slip down my wrist or anything.
2) I haven’t seen this mentioned elsewhere (maybe I missed it?) but the watch also came with a dark gray sports band. I’ve always used a black sports band, but I’m quite liking this gray one.
A couple of observations:
1) the sizing guide of the braided loop is mostly accurate. I was between a 5 and a 6, went with the 6, and find it slightly looser than I’m used to. I’ll keep it though, as it doesn’t slip down my wrist or anything.
2) I haven’t seen this mentioned elsewhere (maybe I missed it?) but the watch also came with a dark gray sports band. I’ve always used a black sports band, but I’m quite liking this gray one.
I can't control what you do with your extra chargers.
On the other hand, that way of thinking is like we should stop investing money into looking for cures in rare diseases just because there is only a small percentage of people has it.
I understand that may sound extreme. However, it still does not change the fact that Apple is just trying to penny-pinching the customers, plain and simple. There is no need to justify and defend everything Apple does.
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Comparing producing charging brick to curing rare disease? No wonder your logic is so twisted.
Good for you. For me S2 is not slow so no reason for me to upgrade just for that.
I guess I'll keep waiting. This way I'll save money
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I guess I'll keep waiting. This way I'll save money
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What about the significantly bigger screen? Even if you use your Apple Watch just for information (i.e. time, date, weather), the bigger screen should be a welcome improvement for your 60+ eyes.Good for you. For me S2 is not slow so no reason for me to upgrade just for that.
I guess I'll keep waiting. This way I'll save money
For most other uses, the speed increase would be more than welcome. Sometimes, it would only allow certain functionality in the first place (like e.g. talking Siri).
I intentionally didn’t mention LTE, which is not available on S2, as that functionality is discussed pretty controversially (mostly for additional Carrier cost reasons).
Personally, I really like to be able to make/take calls directly on the Watch.
Not sure if S2 supports Call Forwarding from the iPhone via WLAN, but I could imagine this also being impaired (if not impossible) due to the slow CPU and meager Ram in the S2, compared to S6/SE.
I'm not 60+ hahahhaa. I'm actually almost half that
Bigger screen - nice but not a reason to buy
LTE - who uses that on a watch? - thats throwing money out the window.
For me the watch is useful only for gym/sports (as a tracker) and notifications but that is less useful now that we all work from home so overall, if I'm really honest, I don't really need the watch yet. To me, it was the health sensors that I wanted to get but once I looked into it more I realised its not there yet. I dream a day when we have this device that is our own personal doctor which can track nutrition etc. and tell us where to improve. The day when it will be so advanced that our doctor will be able to read it from the device or even get notifications from his patients that he/she can act accordingly. That time is at least 10 years away if not more so yeah, my retirement will look a bit healthier as long as I keep taking good care of myself now.
No, I don't need watch for date or weather - my watch face is super clean and simple. Just the time and one widget.
I don't like clutter and I check weather maybe 1x a month on my phone.
So yeah, for all these things the S2 is already fast and I really don't know what else I could benefit so I'll wait.
And no, really don't want to talk to my watch for a phone call - there is already plenty of silly people doing silly stuff - I don't need to join them.
Bigger screen - nice but not a reason to buy
LTE - who uses that on a watch? - thats throwing money out the window.
For me the watch is useful only for gym/sports (as a tracker) and notifications but that is less useful now that we all work from home so overall, if I'm really honest, I don't really need the watch yet. To me, it was the health sensors that I wanted to get but once I looked into it more I realised its not there yet. I dream a day when we have this device that is our own personal doctor which can track nutrition etc. and tell us where to improve. The day when it will be so advanced that our doctor will be able to read it from the device or even get notifications from his patients that he/she can act accordingly. That time is at least 10 years away if not more so yeah, my retirement will look a bit healthier as long as I keep taking good care of myself now.
No, I don't need watch for date or weather - my watch face is super clean and simple. Just the time and one widget.
I don't like clutter and I check weather maybe 1x a month on my phone.
So yeah, for all these things the S2 is already fast and I really don't know what else I could benefit so I'll wait.
And no, really don't want to talk to my watch for a phone call - there is already plenty of silly people doing silly stuff - I don't need to join them.
Sigh...having to resort to personal attacks, mate?
Same as people defending every jerk move Apple is doing right now.
Apple could have easily put a voucher label on the inside of the box for whoever that needs a charger to claim one at the Apple store.
That may increase the shipping weight by like what? 2 grams?
But nope, they are going to make the customers pay for something to make it work.
Imagine new vehicles being sold without all of the non essential fluid topped off and the automaker says because everyone has a bottle of washer fluid at home.
You may not. There's extensive data in the aviation literature that hypoxemia is not necessarily obvious to those who are suffering from it.
Accuracy rates rapidly diminish as your SpO2 decreases below 70%. Though I'll say both from first hand and hearing others' reports, COVID19 does weird things, and we have people awake, talking, breathing normally, with their pulse oximeter reading whatever it wants to read (a few patients as low as 13%, a few in the 50s, and many in the 80s-90s).