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I tried to use it as a sleep monitor, but you have to plan your charging carefully because it won't last a full day and night on a single charge. Also, despite
by ASalazarMX 4y ago
I tried to use it as a sleep monitor, but you have to plan your charging carefully because it won't last a full day and night on a single charge. Also, despite it knowing I was sleeping, it would randomly vibrate when I received whatsapps during the night, so I needed to remember to put it to sleep before sleeping myself.
Speaking of messaging, I monitored several whatsapp groups, but I don't need to answer all messages. I did that on my PC; if I received a notification in my PC, but didn't interact with it, my phone would ding a few second later, and if I ignored that too, my watch would ding/vibrate a few seconds later. This is probably Meta's implementation, but getting triple notifications made day-to-day a bit more annoying.
I also tried to use it to track exercise, which I usually do at home. I saw no advantages compared to regular timing and counting, and didn't find the gamification of exercise engaging, because I was already doing it.
I got the watch during the pandemic, primarily for the oxymeter and ECG in case I had COVID (which I had). The oxymeter worked well, but the ECG wasn't enabled in my country until late 2022.
Maybe it's become better now, but I sold mine before it became too old. Except for the automatic health monitoring, it made things a bit more of a hassle instead of making them simpler.
- boringg 4y agoNew watch has multiple days on battery charge + super fast charging. Autosleep is pretty helpful to be honest.
- dwighttk 4y agoRe triple notification… Do you want to get those notifications in all three places in case you only have one of the devices with you? I’d just turn WhatsApp notifications off everywhere but my computer if I were you (if I were me I’d just turn them ALL off ;)
- Aloha 4y agoThe bigger issue I had was it not playing alarms on my iPhone, and allowing me to cancel them from my watch, which I apparently could do in my sleep.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoThat was kind of my solution, muting all but a couple of critical groups.
- justusthane 4y agoHuh. I wore a Series 3 for years (just finally sold it last week) and never had an issue with charging/sleep tracking. I was in the routine of plopping it on the charger for 90 min or whatever as soon as I got home from work. Also, mine would automatically go into “Sleep Focus” (previously “Do Not Disturb”) during sleep time, which muted notifications. Not sure why yours wouldn’t do that.
- bookofjoe 4y agoI love my Series 3 38mm because it's so very light, almost unnoticeable.