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You own an Apple Watch in aluminum or stainless steel. How did you choose? If you’ve owned both and prefer one over other, please tell me about it. I know cellular comes only with the stainless steel; is the cellular worth the additional monthly cost?
posted by conscious matter on Aug 4, 2024 - 10 answers

The Apple Watch can send signals by bluetooth (audio, for instance), but can it receive bluetooth signals? Is it possible to build a trigger that when pressed makes the watch do something like play a sound or change screens or whatever? Are there any examples of such a thing on the market?
posted by dobbs on Mar 12, 2024 - 8 answers

A relative's Apple Watch Series 5 40mm/GPS+Cellular has been draining faster than it used to, and it's important for health reasons for relative not to lose access to it even for one night so they can call for help as needed. I have been researching how to get the battery replaced at the 79 battery replacement rate, but it seems like the standard battery replacement options might all require giving up the watch for more than a day. Are there faster options I am missing? [more inside]
posted by beryllium on Aug 17, 2023 - 4 answers

Is it fair/accurate to say that a current (Series 8) Apple Watch GPS model has exactly the same functionality/capability as the equivalent current (Series 8) Apple Watch cellular model, if the GPS model is always (1) close to the paired iPhone or (2) on Wifi? [more inside]
posted by andrewesque on Oct 24, 2022 - 6 answers

I am thinking of buying an Apple Watch 4, but I don't have an iPhone (or an Apple computer), but rather an Android phone. I know most of the functionality of the watch should be fine, but are there any major problems with this? [more inside]
posted by zardoz on Oct 5, 2020 - 7 answers

I've been toying with the idea of an Apple Watch (series 3, not the cellular one) for a while now, but I'm still not sure if it would be something I would really get a lot of use out of. [more inside]
posted by rossination on Feb 9, 2018 - 11 answers

Here's the YouTube version of the video. I tried Google, Shazam, and Audentifi without any results. Does anyone know what the song or artist is? I understand it may be from an audio library or custom made for this video, but I thought I'd see if anyone can identify it.
posted by joshrholloway on Sep 10, 2014 - 6 answers