More frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need..

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Zombie said:

Yeah, he is on the gushing side of over-enthusiastic. Not surprised you've not seen the program, given your post count you must spend your entire life on here...

:P

In fairness, my post count is over a period of 18 years and includes many posts to high volume live threads like the F1 threads.

[Swampy1982]

Swampy1982 said:

V8mate said:

poing said:

Swampy1982 said:

Utterly pointless, I don't exercise so don't need a tracker, I have a watch so don't need another... I just want it.

Samsung galaxy watch.

I've so nearly bought several smart watch/fitness tracker things recently. Everything from £20 to £300 but have managed to avoid it. Seeing someone else fall into the trap hasn't helped. I don't even wear a watch...

Me too. I even nearly bought the latest Galaxy Watch^ until I discovered it wouldn't run Google Pay.

Don't worry gents... look out for the

"For sale, one hardly worn...."

Advert coming soon.

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

[louiebaby]

Swampy1982 said:

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

I'll start the bidding at £50.

[V8mate]

louiebaby said:

Swampy1982 said:

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

I'll start the bidding at £50.

£45.

[NDA]

Swampy1982 said:

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

I felt exactly the same with the Apple watch... took it back to the Apple store and the gave me a full refund immediately.

[Shnozz]

I regularly browse "smart" watches, yet have a number of nice proper timepieces. I kind of think its a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Watching people fiddle with them as I easily navigate my phone which was just as easily to hand makes me think I am right.

[geeks]

Well I am a week into Apple Watch ownership (Series 4 don't ya know!) and I quite like it, I don't like charging it I will concede the battery life is ok but not good enough, I am charging it every 48 hours at the moment. However I do like the notifications, the ability to see who is calling before bothering to remove my phone, music control is nice, audible integration is crap (but that's audibles fault really), WhatsApp is handy more than useful. I do really like the activity tracking though, has been a real encouragement while I am working on my weight and fitness!

[toasty]

NDA said:

Swampy1982 said:

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

I felt exactly the same with the Apple watch... took it back to the Apple store and the gave me a full refund immediately.

Same for my OH, although she is a serial returner

[Jazzy Jag]

toasty said:

Same for my OH, although she is a serial returner

Best you behave yourself, then.

[poing]

V8mate said:

louiebaby said:

Swampy1982 said:

For those interested... roughly a week into ownership and the novelty has officially worn off. Charging it's a pain in the arse, and I always have my phone on me, so I don't really need it on my wrist too.

I'll start the bidding at £50.

£45.

I just bought a cheap Chinese Xiomaie (no clue how to spell it let alone pronounce it) from Amazon at the weekend. A massive £27 investment but I had a £5 voucher to use up. I'm actually stunned at what it can do for the price and the 7 day battery life, if it lives up to that claim, isn't too much of a problem.

Some random person in China now knows just how lazy and fat I am and when I'm having a heart attack. Awesome.

[Astacus]

geeks said:

Well I am a week into Apple Watch ownership (Series 4 don't ya know!) and I quite like it, I don't like charging it I will concede the battery life is ok but not good enough, I am charging it every 48 hours at the moment. However I do like the notifications, the ability to see who is calling before bothering to remove my phone, music control is nice, audible integration is crap (but that's audibles fault really), WhatsApp is handy more than useful. I do really like the activity tracking though, has been a real encouragement while I am working on my weight and fitness!

I got an Apple watch 1 as I wanted to monitor my heart rate, at which its kind of OK, but can't sample for long enough at a high enough rate to make it really useful for what I wanted it for. The killer app for me is actually that, when my phone is synced to my work calendar it reminds me, with haptics, that I have a meeting coming up. Which is great for someone who often sees the 15 minute reminder, thinks "ill just make a cuppa", then gets distracted and forgets the meeting....

Also texts turn up on the watch you you don't need to take your phone out of your pocket to read "OK"

You can do Apple Pay on it, but its a bit naff that you have to turn your wrist upside down to do it, so I don't .

It has timers, but they are a bit rubbish

Other than that I use it to tell the date and time

Charge lasts one day. I take it off and charge it over night

[giblet]

I bought a mates Series 0 Apple Watch for peanuts when he upgraded a few years ago. Got on with it quite well so upgraded to a cheap lightly used Series 2.

It’s rather useful, my phone lives on silent and my watch alerts me to any calls or messages by buzzing. I can reply to messages on the move and also discreetly when I’m stuck in meetings.

Apple Pay is nifty and works well, the HR monitor it handy to track calories burnt etc when I’m playing football.

Battery life is good, I can get away with charging it every 2 days. I haven’t worn a normal watch for ages as a result. Waiting for the inevitable update towards the end of this year before I upgrade again.

[Dan_1981]

The problem I have with Smart watches is that it restricts you to wearing one watch.

What do I do with the other 12 I frivolously bought?

[Don1]

Dan_1981 said:

The problem I have with Smart watches is that it restricts you to wearing one watch.

What do I do with the other 12 I frivolously bought?

The first world problems thread is this way... ---------->

[Du1point8]

Don1 said:

Dan_1981 said:

The problem I have with Smart watches is that it restricts you to wearing one watch.

What do I do with the other 12 I frivolously bought?

The first world problems thread is this way... ---------->

One of the reasons I dont have anything other than a very small fitbit as I wear a normal watch on left wrist and sometimes a fitbit on the other.

[toasty]

Jazzy Jag said:

toasty said:

Same for my OH, although she is a serial returner

Best you behave yourself, then.

[geeks]

Dan_1981 said:

The problem I have with Smart watches is that it restricts you to wearing one watch.

What do I do with the other 12 I frivolously bought?

I have other watches, I wear them when my Apple watch is charging or where wearing an Apple watch would be counter productive, customer meetings etc. Also we have a dinner dance coming up in a few weeks, black tie affair, I will wear a different watch to that, my Apple Watch wouldn't fit the look.

[Tom_Spotley_When]

giblet said:

I bought a mates Series 0 Apple Watch for peanuts when he upgraded a few years ago. Got on with it quite well so upgraded to a cheap lightly used Series 2.

It’s rather useful, my phone lives on silent and my watch alerts me to any calls or messages by buzzing. I can reply to messages on the move and also discreetly when I’m stuck in meetings.

Apple Pay is nifty and works well, the HR monitor it handy to track calories burnt etc when I’m playing football.

Battery life is good, I can get away with charging it every 2 days. I haven’t worn a normal watch for ages as a result. Waiting for the inevitable update towards the end of this year before I upgrade again.

Quick question; I'm eligible for an Apple Watch on Vitality. I'm tempted to get one, but don't want to wear it all the time.

Instead, I just want to wear it for dogwalks and going to the gym so that Vitality recognises my hard work and I get a discount. Can you disable all notifications of text messages, emails, phone-calls?

I don't want my wrist buzzing with work stuff when I'm not there.

[Ardennes1944]

I would recommend the Xiaomi Bip SMartwatch for anyone interested in them but dont want a big outlay. I got mine almost a year ago for 47euros, it does pretty much all I want it to do and most of what my missus' Apple Watch 3 does.
The only thing it lacks is Music Control which I would like but my Airpods have made up for that with the gestures.

[geeks]

Tom_Spotley_When said:

giblet said:

I bought a mates Series 0 Apple Watch for peanuts when he upgraded a few years ago. Got on with it quite well so upgraded to a cheap lightly used Series 2.

It’s rather useful, my phone lives on silent and my watch alerts me to any calls or messages by buzzing. I can reply to messages on the move and also discreetly when I’m stuck in meetings.

Apple Pay is nifty and works well, the HR monitor it handy to track calories burnt etc when I’m playing football.

Battery life is good, I can get away with charging it every 2 days. I haven’t worn a normal watch for ages as a result. Waiting for the inevitable update towards the end of this year before I upgrade again.

Quick question; I'm eligible for an Apple Watch on Vitality. I'm tempted to get one, but don't want to wear it all the time.

Instead, I just want to wear it for dogwalks and going to the gym so that Vitality recognises my hard work and I get a discount. Can you disable all notifications of text messages, emails, phone-calls?

I don't want my wrist buzzing with work stuff when I'm not there.

You can customize it alot.

However don't get the Watch from Vitality, I looked into it, for the what they are offering, it didn't seam worthwhile. Also I think the watch offer ended yesterday. Also to get the discounts, we aren't talking about walking the dog once a day and popping to the gym a couple of times a week...