Am still using my 17 jewel wind-up radium dial watch. Still glows in the dark and can set off a Geiger counter hi hi.
Will you buy an Apple Watch?
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Probably more aligned with alarms to remind them to take their medications. 😉
Get Medical Guardian set up for the cellular model and they'd have a clean sweep.
Had my first really bad SNAFU with my Apple watch after the rcent upgrade to 4.2.2. Things seemed OK because I have been using it in cellular mode as it is a cellular watch3 model. I stopped getting notifications, the first hint. things werem't right. Second, I could nolonger ping my iphone, in phone call mode my Favorites were grayed out. But I could get inbound phone calls and access my voice mail, but with cellular disabled, it would not make or receive calls. Yet, the iphone and watch showed the two were paired and I have Blue Tooth connection. Resetting was no help. Had to unpair which resulted in an error message because the watch wasn't really paired even though it said it was. But the unpairing did give a clue on what to do next. I had to reset the watch in the Settings app and delete all it's data. This took about 15 minutes. Then I went through the pairing process like a new watch. Once that completed, I was given two options to restore everything from the last update 4.2.2 or restore from the first pairing last November when I bought it. That took about 45 minutes. But when complete, I just had to reverify my wallet and redo the password. Now all is well again. Ping works, Notifications work and calls in and out without the Cellular on also work.
Hmmm, that almost sounds like the iCloud snafu I had with my iMac and iPhone 6. I ended up re-adding my card to my wallet for ?Pay not once but twice. My wife ended up getting two e-mails from our CC company to let us know that the card could no longer be used for Apple Pay. I got real good at adding cards to my ?Pay...
Last week my wife’s almost three year old Apple Watch 38 mm wasn’t lasting the day. She was only getting 2-3 hours run time after charging for two hours.
So I had her try my 42mm on for size and she realized it didn’t bother her as she thought it would. So we went out and got her the new 42mm and now she is getting 60 hours between 2 hour charging. I suspect she could get up to 76 hours like I do with some tweaking.
I plan to try replacing the batttery in her old one to see how easy it is to do. Cost is about $22.
FYI: The 42mm battery is 30% higher capacity than the one in the 38mm. I knew the 38 was smaller but I never knew by how much.
So I had her try my 42mm on for size and she realized it didn’t bother her as she thought it would. So we went out and got her the new 42mm and now she is getting 60 hours between 2 hour charging. I suspect she could get up to 76 hours like I do with some tweaking.
I plan to try replacing the batttery in her old one to see how easy it is to do. Cost is about $22.
FYI: The 42mm battery is 30% higher capacity than the one in the 38mm. I knew the 38 was smaller but I never knew by how much.
Note- when you upgrade the Apple Watch or reinstall from a backup you have to rescan the cc for Apple Pay. Everything else restores fine.
When I would travel abroad with the original Apple Watch, figuring out how to get the battery to last the full day of travel, the red-eye flight, and then the next day was a royal pain. Always had to find a way to charge the watch on the plane.
It was so nice with the Apple Watch 3 last week, flying to Berlin on an evening flight, that the battery was completely fine and never even close to sub 50% from starting Monday morning Chicago time to ending Tuesday night Berlin time.
It was so nice with the Apple Watch 3 last week, flying to Berlin on an evening flight, that the battery was completely fine and never even close to sub 50% from starting Monday morning Chicago time to ending Tuesday night Berlin time.
I see that the Apple Watch Series 3 is in the Apple Refurbished store. The 42 mm Series 3 GPS Aluminum w/Sports Band is $309, 38 mm is $279. That is, if you can find them in stock. If you can, that's $50 off the normal store pricing.
As I recall, don't go out of your way to buy a Qi charger with the intent of charging your Apple Watch Series 3. (AppleInsider article) Apple is supposed to release the AirPower wireless charger that can handle the Apple Watch Series 3 as well as iPhone 8/8+/X and is compatible with Qi Fast Charging devices. But it's not here yet (maybe WWDC) so stick with the magnetically-coupled wireless charger included with the Apple Watch for now.
In other words, no.
I purchased two A watch chargers from 3rd party and they both work fine. They don't mention the Qi standard.
Amazon product ASIN B01J3NGSUU
Wife and I carry them when we may be away from an outlet for a day. They came in handy when we were using the watch 0 original. But since we now have the 42mm watch3 there is little need for them. The watch 3 gets between 60-76 hours on a charge. Once I had to use it when we were out on excursions for a long day in Hawaii because I just forgot to charge it the night before.
Amazon product ASIN B01J3NGSUU
Wife and I carry them when we may be away from an outlet for a day. They came in handy when we were using the watch 0 original. But since we now have the 42mm watch3 there is little need for them. The watch 3 gets between 60-76 hours on a charge. Once I had to use it when we were out on excursions for a long day in Hawaii because I just forgot to charge it the night before.
I have several Qi chargers, and none of them work with the apple watch. And Apple seems to be in no rush to release it's long awaited iphone/watch charger pad.
Same here. The only thing I can get to charge the apple watch is the original charger.
Perhaps Apple's charger isn't working either.
In Apple's case, it may be some difficulty with using two Qi pads so close together.
I can confirm these two 3rd party chargers work:
Amazon product ASIN B01N4NMNR2But be aware this one is a bit larger than the Apple model so it won't fit in standard charging stands
Amazon product ASIN B01J3NGSUU
BTW, buried in the watchOS v5 announcement was the factoid that watchOS 5 won't be available for the original ?Watch. So, sorry all you .1% who bought the 24K Gold Edition at $10K+, you will soon have a very heavy bracelet. Although, one would think that the actual case would fit the Series 2/3 system board and battery. Maybe Apple has an exclusive offer for those that had to have the very best...
One thing I have observed with my Awatch is the newer OS upgrades all seem to lower battery run time. Even if the new wOS could be run on the older processor in the original Awatch the battery run time might be way too short.
My son-in-law has the original yet and he has to charge it every day. I bought the 3 last Fall to have the latest features and gave my original to a relative. When I first got it I was averaging 74-80 hours of run time on a charge. With the latest OS updates I now get only 60 hours average of run time.
I would never spend $18K for the full gold watch. The most I ever paid for a watch is my Tissot T-Touch Titanium+ at $1300. It's my backup, the one I wear when going in the ocean snorkeling. I know the Apple watch should handle the water ( one of several reasons I upgraded) but as long as I have the Tissot I'll not risk exposing the A watch to salt water.
