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god this blows posted:Just keep in kind unless you’re on the latest T-Mobile plan they all charge taxes and fees on the $10 so it’s closer to $15 from what I’m told. Same with ATT. It’s such horseshit, but I loving love the LTE for running. I’m an rear end in a top hat for continuing to pay for it.
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Is it possible to use an Apple Watch as a generic bluetooth heart rate monitor for other devices, like a treadmill?
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Oct 8, 2019 12:18
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There’s this: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/use-gym-equipment-with-apple-watch-apdf855bb3c0/watchos But my gym doesn’t have fancy enough machines for that. Just Polar integration.
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Oct 8, 2019 12:37
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smackfu posted:There’s this: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/use-gym-equipment-with-apple-watch-apdf855bb3c0/watchos Thank you, that's great. I've never had an Apple Watch before but that feature makes it even more useful.
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Oct 8, 2019 12:45
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Housh posted:Apple Watch life folks is the $10 extra a month worth it for mLTE? I've been using the s2 without cellular for 2 years fine but would be cool to leave the phone at home sometimes. I left my phone at home when I went to the gym once. I talked to a friend on it the day I got it. I uh..... I don’t know that I’ve ever used it beyond that. Maybe it gets used when I get notifications if I’m out of range of my phone, which is pretty common when I’m at work, when I’ll probably ignore whatever notification I’m getting anyway. But I haven’t cancelled it after about six months of little to no conscious use of it so I don’t know what my point is.... 
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Oct 8, 2019 13:14
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 This is what AT&T charges for a watch on its own plan. Yikes.
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Oct 8, 2019 13:47
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Yeah gently caress that poo poo that’s even more of a robbery than the $10 it is on T-Mobile. Insane.
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Two of those "surcharges" go straight to ATT and should be part of the base price. gently caress that company. Well gently caress all telecoms but in this case gently caress ATT in particular.
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Oct 8, 2019 13:59
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Regulatory cost recovery charge?
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Sri.Theo posted:Regulatory cost recovery charge? Passive-aggressive way of business owners telling the customer "if you want to make us comply with regulations then we will pass the cost on to you, no way are we letting this cut into profits." See also: Healthy SF charge itemized on restaurant bills.
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Oct 8, 2019 16:30
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Could also be some suit earning 300k saying “let’s charge everyone 13 cents so that I can buy a new house.”
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Oct 8, 2019 16:33
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smackfu posted:
Christ, that total cost is more than I pay monthly for my whole phone contract in the UK, and that gets me completely unlimited usage (minutes, SMS and data). No watch though.
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Oct 8, 2019 17:05
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Yeah. I’ll just pass on the LTE. Thanks for the input. Leaves more money to waste on video games.
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Oct 8, 2019 17:38
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LTE is one of those weird things where everyone that has it admits it’s stupid and they’re stupid paying for it. Myself included 
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Pants Donkey posted:LTE is one of those weird things where everyone that has it admits it’s stupid and they’re stupid paying for it. ....and we keep paying for it. It’s like a gym membership for half the people that have a gym membership.
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colachute posted:....and we keep paying for it.
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I like running without my phone and still being contactable by my family in case of emergency, so LTE works for me
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Oooo boy! S5 delivered by the end of the day. I'm coming from a S2. Should be a nice performance/usability jump, no? Excited!
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Housh posted:Oooo boy! S5 delivered by the end of the day. I'm coming from a S2. Should be a nice performance/usability jump, no? Going from an S2 to an S4 was a revelation.
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Endless Mike posted:Going from an S2 to an S4 was a revelation. Always on is a big deal for me and why I immediately jumped on S5. S2 was always slow or just loving up if I didn't exaggerate looking at my watch.
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Oct 9, 2019 14:49
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Even though 6.0.1 improved battery on my 5, AOD still drains it way faster than it should, being a core advertised feature of the watch. Hope 6.1 has some additional fixes.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:20
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Even though 6.0.1 improved battery on my 5, AOD still drains it way faster than it should, being a core advertised feature of the watch. I'd see if Apple support can help/replace. I have AOD on with the Infographic and 8 complications. I use the watch quite a bit with the Heart Watch app (I just had super major heart surgery so I have it poll my heart-rate every 15 minutes), active pedometer, sleep tracking, etc... I've been easily hitting 20 hours with it registering around 10-15%.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:35
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Proteus Jones posted:I'd see if Apple support can help/replace. I have AOD on with the Infographic and 8 complications. I use the watch quite a bit with the Heart Watch app (I just had super major heart surgery so I have it poll my heart-rate every 15 minutes), active pedometer, sleep tracking, etc... I've been easily hitting 20 hours with it registering around 10-15%. How do you have it poll heart rate periodically like that? Is this with a complication that actively shows it changing every 15 mins? I know the watch does monitor HR over the day. I just wasn’t aware you could get a complication to show it.
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Oct 9, 2019 16:31
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Did they improve the Siri face in 6.0? Will I get more info displayed then on my s2?
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Housh posted:What do you do now with your watch you couldn't do before with the S2? Nothing I do new, but actually being able to open an app without waiting 10 seconds is very nice.
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Housh posted:Did they improve the Siri face in 6.0? Will I get more info displayed then on my s2? looks the same on an s3 but they tweaked the algorithm and now it is suggesting timers and the breathe app instead of giving me news headlines and weather
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Oct 9, 2019 17:32
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Clark Nova posted:looks the same on an s3 but they tweaked the algorithm and now it is suggesting timers and the breathe app instead of giving me news headlines and weather That's actually exactly what it's showing me right now. It does show me work meetings now that I synced up my work calendar. The duplicate events I posted about a while ago are gone which is nice. Think it just resynced the calendars.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:35
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Clark Nova posted:looks the same on an s3 but they tweaked the algorithm and now it is suggesting timers and the breathe app instead of giving me news headlines and weather Forever mute the breathe app. Some days my only stress was from it telling me to breathe every hour.
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Endless Mike posted:Nothing I do new, but actually being able to open an app without waiting 10 seconds is very nice. I mainly use it for all the data: weather, activity, and my calendar schedule. Never used a s3+ watch. Wonder if that face can show more info or just looks better?
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Oct 9, 2019 17:46
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Yeah on my Series 1 I feel like anything I try to open that isn't a first party app just takes a century to load and I close it before it does.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:52
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Dick Nipples posted:How do you have it poll heart rate periodically like that? Is this with a complication that actively shows it changing every 15 mins? I use a 3rd party app called Heart Watch. And the complication shows changes every 15 mins (or so... usually.. still better than having to manually look it up). It also feeds into Health just like the native app.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:34
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Ultimate Mango posted:Forever mute the breathe app. I could be totally wrong on this but aren’t breathe reminders connected to your heart rate or something? If you’re getting constant breathe reminders that seems not-ideal.
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Oct 9, 2019 19:23
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Taima posted:I could be totally wrong on this but aren’t breathe reminders connected to your heart rate or something? If you’re getting constant breathe reminders that seems not-ideal. 
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Taima posted:I could be totally wrong on this but aren’t breathe reminders connected to your heart rate or something? If you’re getting constant breathe reminders that seems not-ideal. No, it's a "mindfulness" app that gets you to breathe (semi) deeply at a steady rate for X minutes (the default is 1 minute) at a time. It does measure your heart rate while you do it. It's a calming exercise and the goal is to be still and hit your typical "at rest" heart rate.
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Even better, Breathe is one of the apps you can completely delete from the watch now. Long press on the bubble icon screen to get the iOS style jiggling icons.
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Oct 9, 2019 19:40
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Taima posted:I could be totally wrong on this but aren’t breathe reminders connected to your heart rate or something? If you’re getting constant breathe reminders that seems not-ideal. Can you set it this way? I'd appreciate that as someone with chronic anxiety.
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Oct 9, 2019 21:25
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SeANMcBAY posted:Can you set it this way? I'd appreciate that as someone with chronic anxiety. In the watch app on the phone colachute fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 21:27
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Dude is critical of the always on display's battery life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TuyvWoaAZk
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Oct 10, 2019 00:39
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colachute posted:In the watch app on the phone That just seems to indicate that you'll get no alerts at all. Do they activate if it detects a high heart rate?
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Housh posted:Dude is critical of the always on display's battery life Lots of tech people like Marques have been super critical of the AOD. It's gotten to the point where some folks have flat out said to disable it, which seems counter-intuitive to me. Why not get the Series 4 in that case? Anyways I've heard that 6.1 does fix some of the issues.
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