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honglong1976

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Jul 12, 2008
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I love my Apple Watch - Series 0. I just wish the battery life was better. It doesn't track sleep (without an app). I find wear the watch to bed annoying.

I purchased a Misfit Shine (for £12 from CEX). It takes a coin battery, tracks all your activity, automatic activity recognition and sleep tracking and the battery lasts for .... 6 months! I couldn't believe it! It also looks like an Apple designed product too. I had a fitbit before and the most it could last was 5-7 days.

Shame Apple can't have two modes.
1. Apple Watch functions as normal
2. Apple watch turns on but just displays the rings and nothing else. HR is disabled, WIFI disabled and everything is disabled apart from tracking steps. Syncing is periodically.

Or a really basic activity tracker which still follows the ring system but with bonkers battery life using a custom chip! I would buy straight away :)

Seriously, the Apple Watch is so powerful, it should be able to identify activities or at least guess them!
 
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