I like the audio playback on the AW10

[formularossa]

I listen to podcasts often, and I'm really liking the audio playback on the AW10.

It's nice to have the audio travel with me as I'm doing dishes, chopping veggies, other kitchen stuff. Especially nice to be able to pause it from my wrist instead of walking over to the phone / pulling phone out of my pocket.

Speakers are awful* for music playback, but I don't plan on using it for that.

Edit: *awful was probably harsh - I meant relative to headphones or speakers. Serviceable but not ideal.

 

[212rikanmofo]

awful for music? can you elaborate. Is it loud enough to hear when you're outside jogging or bike riding? I plan on getting it so that I can listen to music while at work in a warehouse/factory environment.

 

[Nismo73]

Was trying around the house today with the music playback. I mean, for some little speakers out of a watch it's actually pretty good. (S10 watch) My hope was that bike riding it would be good enough and I think it will when youre riding along on a trail by yourself or on the road without traffic around you.
I mean come on...are people expecting an 80s rack stereo speaker system with those big speakers on both sides to what the watch provides. lol

 

[luckylisp]

I'm really enjoying the speaker too. I was listening to a podcast while gardening today. Speakers actually sound pretty good for music too, imo. Obviously, not as good as listening on proper equipment or listening with air pods, but I'm really happy with it overall.

 

[formularossa]

In a quiet indoor environment, I'd say the speaker is good enough for music you'd play in the background while working.

Outdoors, I struggle to hear it well unless I'm holding my arm up.

 

[Nismo73]

When trying it out, just double check that the volume is up all the way with the dial.

 

[luckylisp]

awful for music? can you elaborate. Is it loud enough to hear when you're outside jogging or bike riding? I plan on getting it so that I can listen to music while at work in a warehouse/factory environment.

I would say it's not really loud enough to hear when you're outside jogging or bike riding. It would have to be a very quiet environment and without any background noise at all. You could hear it on a quiet walk, depending on the type of music, but adding the movement of biking or jogging, and any outside factors, it just wouldn't work, imo. It's best for quiet, private, environments.

 

[kat.hayes]

I really like it and think the built in speaker is decent for what it is. My problem with it is, unless I am missing something, every time I want to play music on my watch it streams it to my phone and I have to instead push a whole bunch of buttons on the watch to get it to play just on the watch and this sort of defeats the point for me of having quick access to music on my watch...

 

[Pommepommepomme]

I like it too because I don’t need to take my AirPods just for one podcast or song. It’s not a loud speaker and that's a good thing because people around you doesn’t need and want to share your music/noise/conversation. Good job from Apple 👍

 

[212rikanmofo]

I like it too because I don’t need to take my AirPods just for one podcast or song. It’s not a loud speaker and that's a good thing because people around you doesn’t need and want to share your music/noise/conversation. Good job from Apple 👍

Well wouldn't it be better if it COULD go loud. that way we can turn it down if we don't want to annoy others. What's the purpose of making a speaker if you can't even use it.