I tried running with a smartphone for a while. I was constantly afraid I would drop it. I tried armbands, pockets, sometimes I just carried a stopwatch and logged all my data in a spreadsheet like some kind of neanderthal.
Eventually though I bought a watch. It can tell me how I'm doing on my split times and play music into a cheap bluetooth headband. It's super lightweight. It can even detect different types of weightlifting, and tell me I just did a set of five deadlifts, or squats. It somehow knows the difference. It doesn't seem to understand sprinting at all though and has all sorts of weird bugs because I assume it has a small userbase.
I'm not sure any of my apps aside from activity tracking and music make any sense on a smaller device, so that is kind of weird. It's like I strap a tiny phone to my wrist in the mornings, then I swap it out for a larger copy an hour later.
Maybe one day phones will be like other accessories and we'll have eight of them and complain both about having too many and how we want more of them. And each night we'll debate internally about which one to wear to a certain function, and judge each other mercilessly for being over- or under-phoned.
I've done it both ways. Keeping track of paper and pen and taking notes is more complicated than just having something strapped to your wrist that does it all automatically with an occasional swipe or tap. Both ways are pretty simple so I don't want to exaggerate, but having the thing automatically do the thing is definitely simpler.
The random quirks of software are complicated... that's the world we live in though. New stuff is developed to replace the old stuff before we've even worked out the kinks in the old stuff.
I don't use an apple or high fashion watch for this, and while GPS and payments work, I don't have LTE for messaging like many do. A lot of watches are just a step up from a fitbit. Fitbit with maps I guess. Hmm, maybe I should have just gotten a fitbit. :)
If I were still a runner, I would buy an Apple Watch in a heartbeat especially now that it has cellular. Heck I would buy it if I still went to the gym (as opposed to having my home gym) just so I could leave my phone in the car.
Apple watch just doesn't cut it. I own both (AW2 and Garmin 735xt) and I gave up trying to use the AW for any of the sports that I do. (Running, swimming, biking, gym, Triathlon)
There is no way to do all that properly with an Apple Watch as of today. Not to mention the pain that is to wait for the screen to turn on to see if you are running at the proper pace/HR vs a Garmin watch.
Fair warning though... It's brilliant in some ways and alpha in others. I can't seem to edit a set if I tap too fast and log it incorrectly. It guesses one rep too many in about 30% of sets.
On the other hand it knows when I'm doing pull ups (ie, without moving my wrist) and accurately counts them, which seems like magic.
It calculates an extrapolated one rep max for all your sets.
On the other hand the web interface is not exactly feature rich for data junkies. And I'm not sure there's an easy way to export your data to a more useful spreadsheet.
It's ripe for someone to make a great lifting app. But you know, watches are niche, so don't expect any customers.
Is it possible to store music for offline playback on the Watch and pair it with your Airpods for listening on the go? I'm not a fan of running/cycling with my phone so a Watch/Airpod combo sounds super useful to ditch the phone. I understand I'd need an iPhone for the Watch but I'm just curious if this use case would be possible.
LTE with apple music works as well. Other streaming services such as spotify aren't yet supported without a phone.
Yes, and not only that but you can also stream Apple Music over LTE as well.
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Except good judgement.
People should think better than using categories like "outdated".
Or "judgementalism" for that matter. Not sure when being able to judge things (a prerequisite for not going through life blindly) went out of fashion.
It's a mechanical, manually wound watch. Its movement was quite an old and inaccurate design even by mechanical watch standards. That is it does not meet official chronometer standards.
I've worn it almost every day since I first got it. I really enjoy wearing it for all sorts of reasons unrelated to its basic function that I'm not sure I can articulate in any form of convincing argument other than "Well, I like it anyway".
In other words, wtf are you talking about, you get to wear as much jewellery as you want. I mean, you're not obligated to, and limiting yourself to a watch is a nice, minimalist concept, but even then whether it will read femme, masculine, or anything else, really depends on the watch, and, uh, almost everything else. Including who's doing the reading.