Apple - Watch SE (2nd Gen)
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"I unlock my computer and phone with it."
"the fact that they integrate to the Apple Watch simply cannot be understated for me, I couldn’t go back to Garmin now, it is just so much part of my life now. ... Tracking weightlifting workouts, nutrition and other stuff, analysis of the data, send messages to HomePod, changing NC automatically, sending emails …."
"On the Apple Watch you can be listening to Spotify at your desk, phone, livingroom, car, etc and then hit the device button on the watch and select the watch and Spotify Connect will transfer playback to the watch without missing a beat. ... You don't have to fumble around on a tiny touch screen to locate the playlist you were listening to on your phone so you can continue on the watch. You simply transfer playback and go. ... Mid run if you want to listen to something else, you simply ask Siri and it will play what ever you ask for, no presyncing or phone is necessary."
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"They're pretty water resistant, I've (accidentally) sent them through the wash in my pants pocket and they still work just fine."
"are water resistant (I've run mine through the wash and they still work no problems)"
"I've run in the rain with them, and run them through the wash (accidentally!) a few times, and occasionally wear them in the shower and they still work great."
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"I’m one of those people the Apple Watch sent to the doctors 6 years ago and I had heart surgery in August! So it technically saved my life!"
"my AW alerted me to heart irregularities that sent me to the ER and findings of a small heart attack and a secondary artery in my heart with 99% blockage. I am AW for life now."
"it has even detected heart issue during my sleep that got fixed by surgery later on."
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"I have Venu 3 and it has 90% of smartwatch features one would need. You can take/make calls, see all notifications (with pictures), react to them (reply either with predefined messages or T9 keyboard, mark them as read, dismiss/snooze notifications, turn off alarms, delete emails etc.), pay (Garmin Pay), listen to music (local files, Spotify, Google Play etc.). There are also various apps like calendar, calculator, water intake monitor, camera apps (to control phone camera) etc. ... I use mine for getting notifications from phone, reacting to them (dismiss/snooze events, mark messages or mails as read, delete spam emails, quickly respond to messages), taking/making calls sometimes, tracking things like intermittent fasting, water intake etc., playing games while sitting on the toilette :) etc. ... So usually, while at home, I "lose" my phone. I don't even know where it is. I do everything on my laptop and receive notifications on my watch. If it's a spam mail, I will delete it from the watch. If it's important one, I open Gmail on laptop and answer."
"the fact that they integrate to the Apple Watch simply cannot be understated for me, I couldn’t go back to Garmin now, it is just so much part of my life now. ... Tracking weightlifting workouts, nutrition and other stuff, analysis of the data, send messages to HomePod, changing NC automatically, sending emails …."
"I unlock my computer and phone with it."
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"If you are in long sleeves in the rain, you need to lock the touchscreen to prevent accidental touches. But that prevents you from using the touchscreen without holding to unlock for a few seconds. So if you are doing intervals, it can be hard to end the interval quickly."
"the Apple interface being badly interfered with by water/and clothing contact in heavy rain. ... I lost a trail marathon stats and mapping etc mid run. ... It was frankly infuriating"
"I already got sick and tired of touch screens with my Apple Watch ... Dripping sweat, rain and sleeves really screw with touch screens ... where I live we have like 6 months worth of snow so needing to take off my gloves and disable a screen lock before being able to pause my workout is an annoying PITA."
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"sleep is a disaster ... I was watching TV and I was already asleep ... when I go to the bathroom in the evening, the venu didn't even notice that I was sleeping, or didn't even recognize that I went to the bathroom."
"Sleep tracking is great if you are an amazing sleeper who doesn’t have interrupted sleep or gets up in the night. I get up to pray and when I go back it doesn’t pick up that sleep again. It is an issue because sleep tracking was a major reason for me buying a fitness tracker."
"I also found the sleep tracking on the GW6 to be much more reliable. ... I have small kids so I wake up every now and then during the night and on the Garmin - it's so frustrating to be told in the morning that I had a great night of sleep with only 10 mins of time awake when I spent 40 mins trying to get my 2yo to fall back asleep."
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"It misses key info and HR was clearly elevated compared to baseline even on the Ultra, but it doesn't count that. So a night of drinking and shit sleep, still give you a 95 score! ... But the vitals aren’t accounted by the sleep score as far as I can tell and my HR was higher though not abnormally high by Apple Watch standard but this could be because of sampling it does compared to the Garmin ... both HR and RR were elevated but not enough for Apple to flag but the sleep score doesn’t include those metrics, which I really think they should. ... The sleep scores doesn’t take into account vitals."
"Rep Counting, Diagram and Videos of Workouts, Lactate Threshold (even if not super accurate), and GPS Heatmaps for Team Sports are all super great and simply not present on AW."
"its actually pretty wild how much apple watch will overstate your calories burned, even after a clean on the sensor ... some workouts where the whoop tells me i burned 600 calories, watch tells me i did 900 calories. ... That is a significant difference, especially when you are trying to plan out nutrition goals/fitness goals. ... sometimes when i'm doing a light lift, apple watch will tell me i'm burning 300 - 400 calories, and I'm barley breaking a sweat, but then whoop will say i only burned around 120-150 calories during that session ... to me something just seems suspiciously off with how apple calculates BMR. ... In general if you are looking to lose weight/build fitness, a more conservative approach to what whoop is offering me probably makes more sense."
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"it hardly lasts 5 days 😭"
"My forerunner lasts like 3 days 🫠"
"battery is "great for a smartwatch, meh for a Garmin". ... Some models can last 3 weeks easily if you don't do a lot of gps activities, so 165 is not great here."
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"The battery life is a literal joke. ... Do an activity? There goes 75% of your battery."
"Mine kept dieing one me mid run ... after two years of using it twice hours was about all an aw had battery for when using music and gps! By the 2:15 mark it would be dead. ... When I started running for longer than 2 hrs my battery would die mid run"
"Eventually as I got fitter the AW just didnt have battery for the length of activity (with maps and other metrics always visible)"
angelinacuck 1.0Damn…just bought an SE 2 last week :(
atown49 1.0Yep got rid of my Apple Watch a month ago and it’s been way better. The 165 Garmins battery last at least a week and wicked easy to use. Use mine for running and it’s been great for that some reason my AW SE2 would constantly stop recording my run don’t know why but never worked right. Also the battery only lasted 2 days terrible.
BarrhavenDad 1.0I have an SE2. 100% wait for that 3.
BlatantHarfoot 1.0Apple Watch with cellular. She won’t need to have her phone on her at all times and I personally love this for my workouts. If price isn’t an issue, get the Series 10, otherwise SE2 is perfectly serviceable. No point to look at other brands outside of Apple, unless she goes on multi day hikes, in which case a Garmin is a better choice, even if they got no cellular options.
CharacterBunch4095 1.0*topic on battery apple watch SE has it all except the battery life. got frustrated with it dahil ang dali ma drain kahit hindi ginagamit. makalimutan ko lang i-charge sa gabi after my workout, useless na siya the next day if I need to go, and it charges very slow. I switched to huawei fit (3) and no regrets. battery can go for more than a week without charging. it charges really fast din.
CierraW15 1.0I have the SE 2nd gen and I really like it. It covers all the basics (steps, sleep, heart rate, weather etc.) for a good price. I recommend!
c_is_for_calvin 1.0I switched from an apple se2 to a coros nomad and I will never go back. My apple almost died when I was doing a trail race. We have the same concerns, battery life. I only switched because I really wanted the data, I think you probably should think about it. But the aw was a really good daily watch, notifications and all that jazz. But being away from that was pretty good detox too.
garmin>coros>suunto in that order I switched from an apple watch to a coros recently. never going back.
Competitive_Fish6173 1.0I have an SE2, purchased new 1.5 years ago. I usually charge it for about two hours at my desk every morning and that’s sufficient. But I also have a focus mode on most of the time, so maybe it helps slow down battery drain? I noticed certain watch faces (i.e. Nike bounce face) drained it much faster. I switched to a modular face with minimal complications and now I usually get away with charging once every 24 hours, for about two hours. I don’t use my watch for tracking many exercises though. I do use it for Siri (timers, alarms, texts).
CurrencyUser 1.0Thanks! I’ll be using it solely during workouts and possibly sleep. I’m think the Se2 at a discount is the way to go
DatabaseCareless264 1.0After decades of not wearing a watch, my wife wanted a fitness tracker. I talked her into an AW SE because it had fall detection. Garmin did not have yet. We are an Apple family. She loved it, it just worked. As a long time Heart Rate Monitor guy, pre mobile phones, definitely pre smart phones and watches had migrated to Garmin. Very happy. Worked with my iPhone. The Golf app worked with iPhone. But said what is good for the goose is good goose is for the gander, became an AW guy. Both of us on our second AW wife SE2, 9 myself. i can get 2 days. wife gets 3. BTW since we are both old, the fall detection works, was correct decision. There are a slew of choices to extend battery life, main one, turn off Always On. Will still turn on when turn wrist to look at watch face.
After decades of not wearing a watch, my wife wanted a fitness tracker. I talked her into an AW SE because it had fall detection. Garmin did not have yet. We are an Apple family. She loved it, it just worked. As a long time Heart Rate Monitor guy, pre mobile phones, definitely pre smart phones and watches had migrated to Garmin. Very happy. Worked with my iPhone. The Golf app worked with iPhone. But said what is good for the goose is good goose is for the gander, became an AW guy. Both of us on our second AW wife SE2, 9 myself. i can get 2 days. wife gets 3. BTW since we are both old, the fall detection works, was correct decision. There are a slew of choices to extend battery life, main one, turn off Always On. Will still turn on when turn wrist to look at watch face.
Started with Golf Logix on iPhone Then Garmin Golf Watch, terrible product could not hold charge a round. Back to Golf Logix on iPhone Then Garmin VivoActive with Garmin Golf App, very nice Wife got Apple Watch with fall detection, she stuck with it, sold off Garmin, bought Apple Watch with fall detection Hundreds of rounds on Golf Logix, multiple phones and watches 2024 Golf Logix changes User Interface, tried GolfShot, love it! 2025 GolfLogix revises UI, much improved, tried a few rounds, easy distances to layups hazards, no swing analysis. Staying with GolfShot for now. Lost access to hundreds of rounds on Golf Logix Have not used Garmin in over 5 years it was the best experience. The greater Apple ecosystem won out. We are old, my wife falls, I need the alerts.
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