Apple Watch 3 review Three months on, I’m wondering if I have really used the best smartwatch
0Apple Watch 3 review Three months on, I’m wondering if I have really used the best smartwatch well.
I had a strong reason for becoming an early adopter of the smartwatch. It was a mix of two things — one, my inability to step out of the house without a watch; and two, my need to keep track of my activity and calorie burn since I had ended up with diabetes at a rather early age. My first smartwatch was the Pebble, which accommodated both my needs and did a little bit more, like offer a quirky watch face or a weather alert from the smartphone it was yoked to. I have tried a host of other smartwatches in the years since — from Android Wear to Samsung’s Tizen-based Gear series and even some flash-in-the-pan attempts by others — but have always come back to the Apple Watch as my primary smartwatch, and there are some time-tested reasons for it.
Like all other smartwatches I have used, with the Apple Watch too, I end up forgetting its ‘smart’ side and using only its horological capabilities and that too sparingly given that I am peering into the smartphone most of the time anyway. Given that, the Apple Watch is a good watch at the end of the day, one that I am comfortable wearing all the time, even to the bed once in a while. And, it does an excellent job of tracking my daily activity, calorie count and sleep, which as I mentioned earlier is one of my primary needs.
My typical day with the Apple Watch
I have been using Apple Watches since the first version a couple of years back. Things have changed a bit with the Apple Watch 3, which I have been using since end of September. That is because I feel the battery life has improved immensely with this version. Unlike the earlier iterations, I can actually risk going on a two-day trip without the charger in my bag. In fact, I have done this on a trip to Chennai because I forgot to pack the charger.