Christmas.
Before it, I had the series 1... that thing lasted me almost 4 years before I went to the 5. I had replaced the battery in it once because my screen popped off due to battery swell, so it was an easy replace and gave me another 1.5 years of life. The 5 is light years beyond what i had in terms of sound quality and speed. You can literally have a good conversation through the watch without having to hold it to your ear to hear. The only other watch I would consider would be the Garmin Fenix line, but you lose so much since Apple won't allow communications back to people from the watch.
The upgrade reasons would be the health features and the always on display. Our office service provider also always offers great deals on these when they first come out. Decisions, decisions.
That's probably not an upgrade for you.
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I assume there are better options, but for the price it is great.
I use it for boating, running and hiking . Plus it is a hefty piece that I like
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Mostly because, get ready for it, I'm lazy. I never have to pick up my phone or take it out of my pocket to read a text. For many of them, I can text answers with about three keystrokes. I can avoid having to pick up my phone, get my thumb on the sensor just right (or typing in the code), and using both hands to type. The notifications are great as there is a red dot that will tell you if you missed a text or something, or if you have a meeting coming up. The exercise rings are fine, but I wouldn't get the phone for that. The instant weather report is great. In three keystrokes I can find out the best time to golf. Sunset is right on the front, so I know the latest I should start a round. The stop watch is absolutely fantastic for grilliing - You literally just twist your wrist to get an update of how long that food has been on.
There are bunch of things it does that I don't really give a crap about. Oh, and my particular golf app is not that great. It gives me distances to the green, more or less reliably, but my app still requires me to get out my phone at least to score the hole.
You couldn't muster the energy to just sort of tilt your head slightly and look at the sun's position in the sky? You are lazy.
It's late morning and your slinging yogurt with the old lady. Your buddy texts you and asks if you want to play 9 at 4:00pm. You glance down at your watch, realize sunset is 5:21, so that would be cutting it close. Without interrupting the task at hand, you voice text him back, over the watch, changing it to 3:30pm instead. Multitasking.
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I think I was meant to live in the 1950's.
I think the only things I ever got in early on were the original Blackberry and the first Apple Watch.
The original Blackberry was the boss. We traveled to Ireland in the early Aughts when there was little to no wifi in that country, and I could run my practice off the Blackberry. It emailed, with attachments, using only the shitty cell service back then. You could then connect it to your computer to get the documents to work on. If you needed to, the Blackberry could be a hotspot tether for (very slow) access to the internet, which was still pretty unusual in the early 2000s. Breakout and Hold'em were the only two games. It was awesome. But about seven or eight years ago I switched to the iPhone like everyone else.
That said, I was jacked up about the AppleWatch the minute I saw it. Not sure why. Still love it.
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I have the cell version of the watch.
Not a necessary item by any stretch of the imagination, but more useful than I thought it would be.
New one has the EKG and O2 monitor also.
are monitored. Some of the newer features (EKG, noise warning alerts, etc...) are all useful, but drain the battery. Mine currently only has to be charged every other night because I disabled some of the automatically "health" alerts.