Is it still a good time to consider upgrading to S3?

[cynics]

I have a bad habit of waiting. But I’ve found most Apple products to have very incremental updates.

This aids their resale but also doesn’t leave previous generation owners wishing they’d waited. There are exceptions (iPad 3) and specific features that specifical users would have benefitted from. However by and large consumers feel the time they had with the product was worth the difference.

However that only really applies if you have the previous product for a long enough period of time. If you wait until 3 weeks prior a new generation release there is a chance you’ll feel disappointed.

I’ve never felt compelled to buy the next model. I’ll skip generation at a minimum of once and usually twice.

 

[LaoBron]

“Life is about moments: don’t wait for them, create them.” With your new Apple Watch Series 3

 

[ApplePersonFreak]

Get an S3. I made the same upgrade from S0 to S3 that you are contemplating, and I don't regret it one bit. The S3 is faster, brighter, and the battery life is wonderful. The apps are actually useful because you don't have to wait for a response from the watch in most situations.

FYI, I kept my S0 and use it for workouts. Every time I put it on, I think to myself, gee, I'm glad I have an S3 and don't use this slow S0 watch anymore.

Did you get the LTE version? I don’t need the LTE and plan on getting the GPS model, unless there is a major difference between the cellular and non-cellular, which I haven’t seen many people discussing, but I could be wrong.

 

[tgara]

Did you get the LTE version? I don’t need the LTE and plan on getting the GPS model, unless there is a major difference between the cellular and non-cellular, which I haven’t seen many people discussing, but I could be wrong.

Well, for my watch, I got the stainless steel S3, which comes with LTE as a standard feature. For the wife, I got her an aluminum S3 without LTE.

As far as LTE and features are concerned, the non-LTE models do everything the LTE models do, with the exception of doing phone calls on your watch without your phone, stream Apple Music without the phone, and receive iMessages (but not SMS messages) without the phone. I think there is also one watch face (Explorer) that is exclusive to the LTE models, but that's it as far as I know.

 

[newellj]

I bought an LTE version even though I haven't hooked up the watch on VZW. My reasoning: I plan to keep this watch for 2-3 years. The uncharge wasn't huge to have the LTE capability, but replacing the watch would be a significant cost.I also figure that resale value is probably going to be higher. And finally, I'm hoping that VZW will drop the cost of the LTE service at some point.

We have four Apple Watches in our family of five (me, wife, two sons, one daughter-in-law). All four are LTE and only one is currently connected on LTE. I think the other three of us like the idea of having the flexibility.

The other side of that is that you could always resell a non-LTE watch if you changed your mind. If I'm honest, it's all guesswork.

 

[conifer]

The LTE I think has s ceramic back. More importantly, storage size for music rises from 2gb to 8gb at least for this first version of LTE.

 

[newellj]

The LTE I think has s ceramic back. More importantly, storage size for music rises from 2gb to 8gb at least for this first version of LTE.

It does.

And someone needs to explain to me why the LTE version that can stream music needs 4x the fixed storage of the WiFi version that can't. Why does that make sense???

 

[BarracksSi]

And someone needs to explain to me why the LTE version that can stream music needs 4x the fixed storage of the WiFi version that can't. Why does that make sense???

Buffer for the stream? Just a guess (and probably wrong).

 

[Blancavena]

It’s actually 16gb in the LTE models and 8 in the non-LTE models
https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/

Don’t know why though

 

[conifer]

It’s actually 16gb in the LTE models and 8 in the non-LTE models
https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/

Don’t know why though

Yes 8, but can only use 2 for music
Yes 16, but I think can only use 8 for music