Hmmm. I wouldn’t exactly call it a waste of money (yet) but my current smartwatch. It’s not bad or anything it’s just… not that useful. The fact that I have to charge it often, doesn’t make it better
I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said “The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!” and thinking “naw dude”.
But, I also don’t like “smart” watches… or “smart” anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.
My Garmin last a month or two. Depends on the model. But it’s less smartwatchy and more health and fitness. Gps is accurate in all my tests down to about 2 feet. Takes me to and from my car in parking lots with ease. Geocaching is a breeze. Best of all the watches I’ve tried.
I couldn’t do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.
I’m over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I’m working outside.
At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.
(Again, I don’t use any of the “smart” stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)
I love my smartwatch, it usually holds charge for an entire day even with the screen on all the time. I think they stopped making them though, it is a Fossil smartwatch. I also like that it just looks like a normal watch at first glance.
By contrast, I have bought a tablet twice thinking I would love to have one, and then NEVER know what the hell to do with it. My phone is easier to carry around. :/
My previous one was a fossil and I loved it until fossil turned it to literal trash with the latest updates + not getting wear os 3. Gorgeous watch tho
The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates. Think about this, you are wearing the watch at night and it vibrates which wakes you up. Stupid.
Apple Music, here’s another one, let’s say you have your watch tied your phone and a Bluetooth speaker connected to the phone. Then use the phone to start Apple Music and stream some music to your Bluetooth speaker. The watch will tell you what song is playing that’s good.But let’s say that you want to use the watch to choose a different playlist. It won’t let you. It will claim you don’t have any device connected to the watch to play music. The watch should be telling the phone, but it never will. I don’t know if this is an Apple Watch or an iPhone issue but either way it pisses me off.
Voice to text works great on the iPhone when trying to send a text message. Half the time won’t work on the watch. It willclaim you said one word when you said a different word. Why don’t I just text like most people do ? because I’m a super slow Texter with my thumbs and it’s much faster for me to hit the microphone.
I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.
Hmmm. I wouldn’t exactly call it a waste of money (yet) but my current smartwatch. It’s not bad or anything it’s just… not that useful. The fact that I have to charge it often, doesn’t make it better
Garmin honestly makes some of the best money can buy. I’ve tried a bunch.
I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said “The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!” and thinking “naw dude”.
But, I also don’t like “smart” watches… or “smart” anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.
My Garmin last a month or two. Depends on the model. But it’s less smartwatchy and more health and fitness. Gps is accurate in all my tests down to about 2 feet. Takes me to and from my car in parking lots with ease. Geocaching is a breeze. Best of all the watches I’ve tried.
Garmin is where I landed too.
I couldn’t do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.
I’m over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I’m working outside.
At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.
(Again, I don’t use any of the “smart” stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)
I feel exactly the same. I bought mine mostly for hiking and the battery isn’t even lasting a whole hike. No tracking or anything.
Garmin. Mine last 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the model. Nothing compares. Avid outdoors.
Apple watch?
Pixel Watch 2
Right, right
I love my smartwatch, it usually holds charge for an entire day even with the screen on all the time. I think they stopped making them though, it is a Fossil smartwatch. I also like that it just looks like a normal watch at first glance.
By contrast, I have bought a tablet twice thinking I would love to have one, and then NEVER know what the hell to do with it. My phone is easier to carry around. :/
My previous one was a fossil and I loved it until fossil turned it to literal trash with the latest updates + not getting wear os 3. Gorgeous watch tho
Oh yea, the updates really suck honestly. I swear every time it updates I feel like it loses functionality that I loved.
Apple Watch 7
The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates. Think about this, you are wearing the watch at night and it vibrates which wakes you up. Stupid.
Apple Music, here’s another one, let’s say you have your watch tied your phone and a Bluetooth speaker connected to the phone. Then use the phone to start Apple Music and stream some music to your Bluetooth speaker. The watch will tell you what song is playing that’s good.But let’s say that you want to use the watch to choose a different playlist. It won’t let you. It will claim you don’t have any device connected to the watch to play music. The watch should be telling the phone, but it never will. I don’t know if this is an Apple Watch or an iPhone issue but either way it pisses me off.
Voice to text works great on the iPhone when trying to send a text message. Half the time won’t work on the watch. It willclaim you said one word when you said a different word. Why don’t I just text like most people do ? because I’m a super slow Texter with my thumbs and it’s much faster for me to hit the microphone.
Mine does not vibrate when I’m sleeping.
I think you need to check your settings, because it definitely doesn’t do that by default.
I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.