![]() The Wear OS experience, as far as it has come, just doesn’t compare. Let me tell you, ever time I do come back, the Apple Watch is the reason I consider sticking with an iPhone. I spend more time on Android phones, and thus I tend to Wear OS watches. Should You Get the Apple Watch Series 8? Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek Other devices can do this, including other iPhones and Apple Watches, but the latest versions claim to be more accurate.īeyond that, this is once again a near identical watch to the Series 7, which means everything good and bad about that applies here, right down to battery life. Still, if you’re in a car crash and have an iPhone 14 or Apple Watch Series 8, the latest devices are supposed to be better at detecting that fact and call for help automatically. But that’d be irresponsible and cause undue strain on our 911 system, so I won’t. I theoretically could try since, apparently, a quick trip on a roller coaster at my local theme park Kings Island will set the feature off and call 911. But it’s not long enough to forgo nightly charging altogether.Īnother new feature is car crash detection. In a pinch, a day and a half battery life means that if you forget to charge it, you’ll have enough battery life left to get it charged first thing in the morning. And that means I couldn’t use it for tracking my sleep patterns. That’s my preference because when I turned it on, I didn’t even make it a day.īut with day-and-a-half battery life, overnight is still the best time to charge the watch. You’ll get maybe a day and a half out of the Apple Watch if you don’t have the always-on-screen feature enabled. And as for sleep tracking, well, the battery life still isn’t good enough for me to use that feature. As a male, the latter doesn’t apply to me. It’s more of a background sensor that enhances other tracking, like sleep and ovulation. Design: Still The Same Series 8 on the left, Series 7 on the right Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek It may not be exciting for a tech reviewer, but for the average person who will likely not upgrade every year, it means that, once again, the Apple Watch is one of the best (if not the best) smartwatches you can buy. So the Apple Watch Series 8 plays it safe with minor differences here and there. Drastically change anything, and you might break something along the way. The Apple Watch Series 7 is, by all accounts, a pretty great smartwatch. It feels like an issue of Highlights where we all play “spot the differences.”īut I’m not sure I blame Apple (or the other companies) entirely, either. Never mind the old complaint that every smartphone looks the same in the past year, every updated gadget has barely been different than the device it replaced. It honestly is a rough time for gadget reviewers (in an incredibly privileged sense). It’s great… because so is the Series 7 watch. That’s the Apple Watch Series 8 in a nutshell. What do you get when you take one of the best smartwatches in the land and add a few tiny improvements to it? Well, one of the best smartwatches in the land… only slightly better.
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