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Form some use cases WearOS is pretty nice. For example, they have all supported always-on displays for years now with "all day battery life"... I switched fro
by williamstein 7y ago
Form some use cases WearOS is pretty nice. For example, they have all supported always-on displays for years now with "all day battery life"...
I switched from an Apple watch to various non-Apple smartwatches when I switched to an Android phone. I used a Ticwatch E (for over a year), the new Samsung Galaxy watch (for a week), and the very new Fossil Gen 5 watch for the last month.
The Ticwatch E uses Wear OS, but is relatively slow and has battery life issues if you are not careful; however, it is very light (40 grams with band!).
I tried very hard to like the bigger Samsung Galaxy watch, but for me it was far too heavy (63 grams + band), which drove me nuts, and the app ecosystem was painful to me. In fairness, the battery life was really amazing though.
I currently wear a Gen 5 Fossil, which weighs 45 grams + band, and is fast enough, with a lot more RAM/storage than the ticwatch and newer generation processor. I'm happy with it. (For comparison, the Apple Watch case is 50 grams.)
Overall, I like Wear OS significantly more than the Samsung watch operating system (which I really didn't like, due to the apps being so expensive and limited). Wear OS is also nice because there are tens of thousands of watch faces to choose from, and some of the faces (that cost $1) are also very highly customizable.
The Apple Watch Series 5 is an absolutely incredible piece of technology, and I wish I at least had the option to choose it, but I guess I don't since I'm not using an iPhone...