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Reason not to upgrade
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File this under garbage that isn’t true.
Not quite.
I feel the speed difference to be quite significant. Plus twice the storage, AirPower support, pressure sensor, better speaker (good for Siri & phone calls), Siri talking, better battery time ...
I perfectly understand that someone with a stainless series 2 does not feel compelled to upgrade and that is perfectly fine. But the improvements can't be argued away and they are substantial.
Not exactly accurate - the Series 3 is substantially faster both the CPU and the communications chip, which now allows pretty speedy downloading of podcasts directly to the watch over WiFi (WatchPlayer). I believe it is also more power efficient making the battery quite a bit better.
I think that’s in reference to the altimeter that tracks relative elevation gain, which is really nice for runners and others that want to track that info.
Probably used the wrong word. I mean that barometric thingy measuring height changes to detect stair climbs.
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Yup sorry, my bad.
Ohh okay thanks! Sorry i'm in the market to get a watch and i'm deciding between the 2 and 3 and just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything with the 3 haha.
The Apple Watch has to be that one product that just plummets when a new one is released. Even iPhones, iPads and other Apple products do fairly well for older resale value, but the Apple Watch really suffers. Sometimes it's just worth keeping it versus selling in general.
I decided to stay put with my S0 for another year.
I see all those standalone features I want that are introduced with the S2 and now S3. But then again I know that my phone is with me 99.9% of the time and I am not missing out on much of the features. The watch could be faster though. But as I know just this watch and never touched the newer models I'm not spoiled with speed. Battery life was bad for almost two month during 3.something but is now back to normal again (38 sport with 5-10% left after 18h including 45min run with phone).
For me the biggest reason not to upgrade is the eSim and its selectivity with carriers outside the us. I would have gotten a new one if the "to rule them all" LTE feature wasn't just a "to rule at least some in some highly specific way under certain circumstances" LTE feature.
Next year then! Hopefully with LTE for all carriers (I know the problem is carrierer-side) and roaming within Europe (carrier-side).
And I will keep the 38 when I upgrade next year. Hopefully iOS5 can make it to S0 so I won't run into OS problems. For me wOS4 is better then wOS3 and earlier.
I see all those standalone features I want that are introduced with the S2 and now S3. But then again I know that my phone is with me 99.9% of the time and I am not missing out on much of the features. The watch could be faster though. But as I know just this watch and never touched the newer models I'm not spoiled with speed. Battery life was bad for almost two month during 3.something but is now back to normal again (38 sport with 5-10% left after 18h including 45min run with phone).
For me the biggest reason not to upgrade is the eSim and its selectivity with carriers outside the us. I would have gotten a new one if the "to rule them all" LTE feature wasn't just a "to rule at least some in some highly specific way under certain circumstances" LTE feature.
Next year then! Hopefully with LTE for all carriers (I know the problem is carrierer-side) and roaming within Europe (carrier-side).
And I will keep the 38 when I upgrade next year. Hopefully iOS5 can make it to S0 so I won't run into OS problems. For me wOS4 is better then wOS3 and earlier.
That sounds good. So much for the "Built-in obsolescence" brigade.
I am finding my S0 a tad slow with Siri however, and will be upgrading to the S3. We don't roam much outside Australia, but I agree eventually you'd want LTE and multi-country roaming to be supported.
I got $100 cash for my Series 0 - core only (kept band, charging cable and brick) - used OfferUp - was very happy to get that and think there is a demand because some just want an Apple Watch and don’t care that much which generation partly because they look the same. There was a lot of demand for it too many backup buyers.
I don't necessarily consider an Apple Watch a fair comparison to a BMW. Apple devices tend to last much longer than they are supported in many cases. Which in theory, someone could still use the Apple Watch outside watchOS support and assuming it's operating as normal. However, BMWs are vehicles that will last up to 200,000+ miles. Pending if somebody leases or owns, that's a big difference alone.
Reason not to upgrade: Apple only made the LTE version with ceramic back. The wifi only version gets the cheap composite back (that can scratch easier).
There's no way I'm going to "upgrade" my S2 with ceramic back to an inferior S3 wifi. And worse, Apple is not selling the LTE model in every market.
There's no way I'm going to "upgrade" my S2 with ceramic back to an inferior S3 wifi. And worse, Apple is not selling the LTE model in every market.
Is there a functional reason for that? Why not just give both 16gb?
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It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a car comparison. Well done
To get it as cheap as possible the Series 3 GPS is a pretty decent price drop over the Series 2 - by making it a composite back and 8GB it cuts costs. The LTE Watch is only $30 more than the Series 2 was