“Earlier this month I made the leap to the dark side. I took off the Casio G-Shock that has been my constant companion for years (occasionally swapped out for my Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean for the odd special occasion) and strapped on an Apple Watch for the first time,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “And I have to admit, I’m very impressed.”
“For the past few months I’ve been wearing a Fitbit fitness tracker daily and have been finding the information that I get from it to be useful but somewhat limited, so the logical step was to switch over to a smartwatch (although I’m still wearing the Fitbit),” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “Right off the bat, let me tell you that I didn’t go for the LTE variant of the Apple Watch 3. I didn’t care about the ‘always connected’ aspect of it, and my cellphone provider in the UK doesn’t support it, so switching to it would have meant switching providers, which is too much hassle for me.”
“Ten days in, and I have to admit that the Apple Watch 3 gets a double thumbs up from me (which is top marks as far as this quick review is concern),” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “Not only has the Apple Watch integrated well into my day-to-day life (I’m loving the deep dive that it allows me to date into data such as my sleep, workouts, and such), but it’s also worked flawlessly in that time. In fact, it feels much more solid and reliable than my iPhone 8 does… I’m impressed. And to be perfectly honest, I didn’t expect to be. I’d half expected that I’d be shipping it back to Apple within the 30-day return period. Not only is battery life much better than I’d expected it to be, but I’m finding that it’s useful far beyond being simply a second screen for the iPhone.”
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The battery life on the Series 3 Watch is amazing. I wear it to bed as a sleep tracker. I charge it to 100% at night and enable theater mode. In the morning I stilll have 100% battery remaining.
Same here! 100% when I go to sleep and 98 or 99% when I get up.
Also, still have 50-60% at end of day. Only takes 20-30 min to full charge.
Sweet watch. Ps use Apple Pay all the time.
Some people are easily pleased.
Some people are Kolarcheholes.
After spending the night with your mom and sisters my dick hurts when I pee.