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Purely anecdotal, but my Series 3 goes about two days on a full charge. I can usually get away with just charging it in the morning while I shower and get ready

Purely anecdotal, but my Series 3 goes about two days on a full charge. I can usually get away with just charging it in the morning while I shower and get ready, and otherwise just wearing all the time. Workouts deplete the battery more, mostly because I’m usually using the GPS in addition to the more frequent heart rate monitoring.

mehrdadn 8y ago
I feel like if I got a watch that did this I'd want it to last at least 3 months on a charge, so I could stop having to remember to charge it... otherwise it's like having a second phone on my hand that I don't need.
- rootusrootus 8y ago
  Everyone has their own threshold, and I respect that, but personally I haven't found it too onerous. I don't wear watches to bed, so I 3D printed a base for the watch charger (it's a magnetically attached inductive charger, no plug) and I just take the watch off my wrist and set it on the charger as I go to bed. Faster than when I had a dumb watch, because I still had to set it down the same way, and the Apple Watch unlatches with a single pull. But ... like I said, everyone has their own needs. And if you don't want all the smart crap, it's a pretty expensive heartbeat monitor.
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    It's not really the issue of it being 'onerous' (although it is), but that for me, in a watch, reliability is king... heck, if it wasn't, I'd just be using my phone, like many people already do (and which I've also been tempted to do). But there are times when I forget to, say, charge my phone. [1] It's not often, but stuff goes wrong once in a while. Now if I'm short on time the last thing I need is to have to discover I'm out of battery and waste time having to fiddle with a battery pack or something. None of this is an issue when you have a normal dumb watch that lasts a few years. You always have a way to tell what time it is and to set yourself alarms so you can meet your commitments no matter what goes wrong. [1] Or it crashes, or randomly starts draining its battery insanely faster because Google decided to force feed it an update or due to other reasons I can't fathom... but that's another story.
    - DennisAleynikov 8y ago
      thats essentially what makes apple watch a non-starter for my smartwatch needs, it accepts only the most regular of charge schedules. I much prefer the pebble or samsung gear which I charge like once a week only for an hour and can rely on as my wallet and sleep tracking even if my phone is dead. I don't want to baby multiple devices, one main work tool is fine to manage battery on a daily basis for instance AirPods charge roughly once a week or less depending on usage pattern. There's plenty of tech that balances battery and powerdraw appropriately. I find apple watch misses this mark unless a lot of functions are turned off.
      - davidgould 8y ago
        I take Apple watch off when I shower and put it on the charging puck. After the shower, I put it back on my wrist. Seems pretty easy if one bathes regularly.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Really confused how this comment went from a -3 accumulated over several hours to 0 in the span of maybe 10 minutes...

mehrdadn 8y ago

I feel like if I got a watch that did this I'd want it to last at least 3 months on a charge, so I could stop having to remember to charge it... otherwise it's like having a second phone on my hand that I don't need.

rootusrootus 8y ago
Everyone has their own threshold, and I respect that, but personally I haven't found it too onerous. I don't wear watches to bed, so I 3D printed a base for the watch charger (it's a magnetically attached inductive charger, no plug) and I just take the watch off my wrist and set it on the charger as I go to bed. Faster than when I had a dumb watch, because I still had to set it down the same way, and the Apple Watch unlatches with a single pull. But ... like I said, everyone has their own needs. And if you don't want all the smart crap, it's a pretty expensive heartbeat monitor.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  It's not really the issue of it being 'onerous' (although it is), but that for me, in a watch, reliability is king... heck, if it wasn't, I'd just be using my phone, like many people already do (and which I've also been tempted to do). But there are times when I forget to, say, charge my phone. [1] It's not often, but stuff goes wrong once in a while. Now if I'm short on time the last thing I need is to have to discover I'm out of battery and waste time having to fiddle with a battery pack or something. None of this is an issue when you have a normal dumb watch that lasts a few years. You always have a way to tell what time it is and to set yourself alarms so you can meet your commitments no matter what goes wrong. [1] Or it crashes, or randomly starts draining its battery insanely faster because Google decided to force feed it an update or due to other reasons I can't fathom... but that's another story.
  - DennisAleynikov 8y ago
    thats essentially what makes apple watch a non-starter for my smartwatch needs, it accepts only the most regular of charge schedules. I much prefer the pebble or samsung gear which I charge like once a week only for an hour and can rely on as my wallet and sleep tracking even if my phone is dead. I don't want to baby multiple devices, one main work tool is fine to manage battery on a daily basis for instance AirPods charge roughly once a week or less depending on usage pattern. There's plenty of tech that balances battery and powerdraw appropriately. I find apple watch misses this mark unless a lot of functions are turned off.
    - davidgould 8y ago
      I take Apple watch off when I shower and put it on the charging puck. After the shower, I put it back on my wrist. Seems pretty easy if one bathes regularly.
mehrdadn 8y ago
Really confused how this comment went from a -3 accumulated over several hours to 0 in the span of maybe 10 minutes...