New Apple Watch (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

Ted, congrats on your new 38mm watch.

If this is your first upgrade since series 1 then I can imagine your surprise as to how much better battery life is.

Battery life was *significantly* improved in series 2. It's slightly better in series 3.

I really like the fact that Siri now talks in the series 3 watch. Not seeing much difference in processing speed from 2 to 3, but from 1 to 3 it should be significant as I saw a huge uptick from 1 to 2.

I, like many AT&T customers, had big issues getting our watches to connect to cellular. There was a huge issue with AT&T not being able to do the LTE pairing on the phone end. Many customers like myself had to get on the phone with an AT&T rep, give them a string of numbers off our phone and even switch to another plan that had mobile sharing on it. My upgrade was only $3 more a month (in addition to the $10 per month data charge).

Huge hassle on this end but I finally got cellular connected to my watch.

 

[Ted Todorov]

Ted, congrats on your new 38mm watch.

If this is your first upgrade since series 1 then I can imagine your surprise as to how much better battery life is

Technically speaking, my old watch was the series 0, series 1 was the non-waterproof version of last year's watch, with the waterproof one released simultaneously being series 2.

 

[Mark Booth]

I have a funny feeling the 2018 Apple Watch (to introduced on Sept 12) is going to be round!

Mark

 

[Nelson Au]

That’s a good guess. Or it could mean to gather at the Apple Donut.

I have a feeling the new watch won’t be round. But we shall see.

 

[Clinton McClure]

Images leaked today show it’s not round, but it is slimmer.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Images leaked today show it’s not round, but it is slimmer.

Correct. No round watch. Just larger and slimmer.

 

[Clinton McClure]

I’m really liking the 8-complication face they showed. Not enough to buy a new Watch but it is sexy.

 

[Ted Todorov]

Images leaked today show it’s not round, but it is slimmer.

I’m happy with square watches. It seems every movie I see where I like the watch has a square one. Just saw one today, in fact. (Memoir of War - based on a Marguerite Duras novel/autobiography about WWII in Paris)

And, the one fancy watch I ever inherited was square.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I’m really liking the 8-complication face they showed. Not enough to buy a new Watch but it is sexy.

Absolutely! That is one nice watch face.

I’m happy with square watches. It seems every movie I see where I like the watch has a square one. Just saw one today, in fact. (Memoir of War - based on a Marguerite Duras novel/autobiography about WWII in Paris)

And, the one fancy watch I ever inherited was square.

Square smartwatches have a distinct advantage in that they can display more text information without the sides being cut off.

It really was great thinking on Apple's part not to go round.

 

[FrankieFenton]

To be honest, they're worth to buy