I have three fine Swiss watches that have sat in their case almost every day since the original Apple Watch debuted. It’s that good, in my opinion. Indeed, the only time you will see a Rolex or Seamaster Pro on my wrist is when I wear one while dressed up nice for church.
Otherwise, it’s Apple Watch all the time.
I run five or six days a week, so the workout app immediately displaced the Nike running app I had been using on my phone with the little shoe insert thing.
Additional bonus points: GPS and cell phone on my wrist always, even if my regular phone is at home or in the car.
I don’t need to carry my cell phone around the house–text messages and emails come in on my wrist.
I recently bought the Apple Watch Ultra, a larger ruggedized version released this year that is marketed at “extreme sports”, though I won’t be doing any triathlons or doing any diving in the near future–I took a bath the other day and smiled when the dive app popped up and showed I was in 1 foot of water, probably calculating a decompression time of 20 milliseconds for that dangerous depth.
This new version is perfect: it fits my large wrist better, has a larger display, a larger battery, and some nice features that the other models don’t have.
I have a Galaxy Watch 3. I kind of like it . I use it track steps, check notifications and control my music occasionally in addition to checking time. All of this I could do on the phone of course but often it’s just more convenient on a watch. I expect I will continue using one for the foreseeable future.
I tried doing this with my watch but it was more of a hassle than it was worth. I had to lock my watch with a passcode which meant I was entering my passcode multiple times a day to do anything on my watch. If you don’t have the watch locked with a passcode, Apple won’t let you connect it to the phone to do payments. After about a week of dealing with it, I just said forget it, pulling my phone out of my pocket when I shop is easier than making it a pain in the ass to use my watch.
Maybe it’s different now, but at the time what was supposed to be a convenience was really just a novelty.
Do you have wrist tattoos? You should only have to enter the passcode once when you first put the watch on your wrist. This was true from the very first Apple Watch. If it keeps asking for your passcode then it somehow is not registering being on your wrist, usually this is caused by wrist tattoos or perhaps being worn extremely loose.
I only have tattoos on my shoulders. My watch wasn’t worn extremely loose, but it was loose enough that sometimes it would shift on my wrist a little. (Otherwise it would be so tight that I’d lose circulation.)
Whenever you put the watch on your wrist. Being locked when it is not being worn is a security measure, but once it’s on you only need to enter it once.
Apparently, it’s a common issue.
I guess mine was just a POS. Because I even wiped the entire thing multiple times.
Ugh, it needs your to wear it “snuggly”. I find that very uncomfortable. I wear my watch loose. Maybe I’ll stick with my citizen’s watch.