So it's been four months since the Apple Watch Series 3 hit and it's either
been this on my wrist or my second-gen Mote 360 depending on what phone I'm
testing and it's been two months since I last really filmed my thoughts on it I
started using it a lot more and my use case has changed in the past two months
I started working out a lot more to talk a lot about it from that perspective and
also software updates have come so LTE and the uses of LTE are now a little bit
more than they were even just eight weeks ago so if you're thinking about
getting an Apple watch Series 3 or maybe you're debating I'm not returning
yours or selling yours stick around so my general thoughts on
smartwatches is still the same I am like a ball of conflicted emotions about it
and I feel like a hypocrite on one hand I can't articulate the use of a
smartwatch even I can't even say why somebody needs a SmartWatch on the other
hand when I'm not wearing one I really miss notificatoins and you
know things like knowing who's calling have been very helpful to have Series 3
you can tell it's a series 3 at least with LTE buy the red dot
on it and that LTE is a big difference versus the series 2, the price entry here
is high at 400 bucks before your cellular plan to get an LTE model
but you're getting a lot of watch for your dollar so the good battery life has
still been incredible I can easily get through now almost four to five days on
battery life when I travel I'm not gone for a week I don't even bring my Apple Watch
charger with me the caveat there is if you're using LTE battery life is going to
drain relatively fast two months ago when I made an hour-long phone call only
LTE it went from 100% to zero so now there's been a few iterative software
updates that have come and that one hour that extended to about an hour and 20
minutes which is a big percentage-wise increase so I'm gonna be honest I don't
use apps on a SmartWatch I think they are clunky I still think they load slow
even though now they're kind of native on the watch and they're credibly and
useful especially just to pull out my phone and open the app but they're there
there if apps are important to generally my app usage is limited to checking
sports scores and generally I just ask Siri what the score is and she'll now
talk back to you it's still slow it's not nearly as fast as asking
phone so oftentimes I'm just asking my phone to do stuff and that's really the
case with the Apple watch so I've been trying to get this this tub of fun into
shape which is kind of what made me think to do a four month later video with
the Apple watch I've been using it as my workout companion it's kind of
interesting so first after being relatively sedentary for like pretty
much at rest the time I used to watch my first real heavy cardio the watch asked
me if I was okay I thought I was having a heart attack which like which hurt me
and also served as motivation but it's been useful to have you sort of track
how many calories I burned how long I've been running if I'm staying at home
doing like a Beachbody workout which is which is what I'm trying to do don't
laugh it's been helpful to see how long I've been going for how much I've moved
it's also good motivation to try to close the rings so I've used an
Apple watch it's what they use to measure your movement your standing and
your exercise so being able to try to close those has been helpful what also
has been helpful for me to measure my heart rate and we give you a range of what
your heart rate was at the lowest and the highest what I buy the Apple watch
series here again yeah probably I would probably feel like a jerk for doing it
but again I still like having that SmartWatch on my wrist
it is by no means a must-have by no means a must-have companion even for an
iPhone it's nice you can stream Apple music now via LTE all those things are
there but there's not a compelling reason why you should buy it
but a lot of you guys are so if you're buying an Apple Watch what's your reason
why you did it and I think most importantly to that question are you
actually using it for that reason I told myself I was gonna work out a lot when I
first bought it and it took me four months to actually start doing it maybe
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