Apple Watch thread

I'm planning to get my SO the 44mm SE with GPS + Cellular. How's the battery life with a little to moderate use of the cellular feature?

Is there a massive difference in battery consumption between the above and the non-cellular version?
 
YeLo said:
Which model was your previous watch and how was the battery life at the end of your 6 years of ownership?
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42mm Series 2
Charged it every evening when I went to bed and it lasted a full day. Didn’t do much on it because it was so slow.
 
YeLo said:
I'm planning to get my SO the 44mm SE with GPS + Cellular. How's the battery life with a little to moderate use of the cellular feature?

Is there a massive difference in battery consumption between the above and the non-cellular version?
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Interested to hear why your going for cellular? I also looked at this and decided to go with GPS. Can download music to watch if your going for a run and also pretty nice to “disconnect” when exercising.
 
SauRoNZA said:
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Ridiculously comfortable and unbelievable to think it’s synthetic silicone and not cotton.

A bit more pink that I expected but I’ll rock it.
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Very nice, did you import? Cant see it on local istore
 
jezzad said:
Interested to hear why your going for cellular? I also looked at this and decided to go with GPS. Can download music to watch if your going for a run and also pretty nice to “disconnect” when exercising.
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Yeah I’m hard pressed to imagine a valid use case for actually owning a cellular watch.
 
jezzad said:
Interested to hear why your going for cellular? I also looked at this and decided to go with GPS. Can download music to watch if your going for a run and also pretty nice to “disconnect” when exercising.
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Her job makes it hard for her to catch important phone calls as her phone is usually locked away in a drawer. She sees no value in the GPS-only model.
 
YeLo said:
Her job makes it hard for her to catch important phone calls as her phone is usually locked away in a drawer. She sees no value in the GPS-only model.
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But it has its own number, so is that then really a solution?
 
YeLo said:
I believe the watch is capable of using your iPhone's phone number. Vodacom has a service that allows Apple Watch users to use the same number as their mobile phone.

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Yup, same with MTN. My watch gets my calls even if my phone is off.
 
YeLo said:
I believe the watch is capable of using your iPhone's phone number. Vodacom has a service that allows Apple Watch users to use the same number as their mobile phone.

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Shouldn’t matter if Vodacom supports it or not, this is part of iPhone relay.

Works even on GPS models while on Wifi.

Bigger question is why would anyone opt for taking calls on their Watch rather than their iPhone. Unless they have AirPods permanently in.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Shouldn’t matter if Vodacom supports it or not, this is part of iPhone relay.

Works even on GPS models while on Wifi.

Bigger question is why would anyone opt for taking calls on their Watch rather than their iPhone. Unless they have AirPods permanently in.
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I’ve don’t it when numbers I don’t recognize me call, 99% of the time it’s SPAM so I don’t really care much to hear what they say anyway.

However this is unrelated to the relay, which only works within BT range, this would be my watch rings and I forgot my phone at home 50km away.
 
CranialBlaze said:
I’ve don’t it when numbers I don’t recognize me call, 99% of the time it’s SPAM so I don’t really care much to hear what they say anyway.

However this is unrelated to the relay, which only works within BT range, this would be my watch rings and I forgot my phone at home 50km away.
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I was under the impression it just needs a network and assumed it would work over rhe internet and uses WiFi not BT, but it just works so I’ve never really thought any deeper about it.

But yeah I can see it being a bit more problematic when no phone at hand.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Shouldn’t matter if Vodacom supports it or not, this is part of iPhone relay.

Works even on GPS models while on Wifi.

Bigger question is why would anyone opt for taking calls on their Watch rather than their iPhone. Unless they have AirPods permanently in.
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The other night, my wife had forgotten her phone in the car when she came home from work and answered a call from her (GPS only) watch while hunting for the phone... the sound is pretty decent even without Airpods, etc and the caller could hear her clearly as well.
On occasion I've also answered calls from my watch when the phone was in a different room etc, never had issues over the built in speaker and mic.
 
OnlyOneKenobi said:
The other night, my wife had forgotten her phone in the car when she came home from work and answered a call from her (GPS only) watch while hunting for the phone... the sound is pretty decent even without Airpods, etc and the caller could hear her clearly as well.
On occasion I've also answered calls from my watch when the phone was in a different room etc, never had issues over the built in speaker and mic.
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I’m not saying it’s never useful, I’m just saying it’s not going to replace your phone as a primary device.

Besides it being open to everyone to listen to the quality is Watch appropriate in a pinch but still nothing like being on your phone.

Add some outside noise etc and it’s near impossible.

So yea it’s possible and works well for what it is, but nobody is going to volunteer to use it instead of their phone.
 
I appreciate everyone’s input on this matter. Seems like the Cellular watch is overkill for the use case I mentioned.
 
Only reason to ever get the cellular watch is if you go somewhere without your phone.
 
Anyone purchase one of those Apps that allows you to build custom face apps for your watch.
 
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