Some Chinese products are just better than their US counterparts.
A Huawei sports/smart watch, for example, is better in so many ways than an Apple smart watch - according to many reviews.
14 days between charges compared with between 18 and 36 hours for Apple is just one.
The only good reason to buy an Apple is if you are tied into the Apple infrastructure with an iPhone which does mean better - it just means lack of foresight by the blinkered user.
I don’t know which Huawei you have in mind, but there’s a massive difference between a smart watch, like my Samsung Galaxy or an Apple Watch and a sport watch. The Garmin Forerunner for example has 23 days of battery life.
Apple Watch is shit for many other reasons, but battery life for a smart watch isnt one of them.
No, they are not. The “OS” of Huawei is essentially a fitness app masked as an OS of a smart watch. Its not even close to a full fledged watch OS. I am not saying this is good or bad, just something that you should know. I also don’t like Garmin as I am long passed my prime as a fitness aficionado. The good news is that there’s a watch for everyone, you just need to decide what are the priorities. Anyway, were offtopic, but this might be worth a separate thread.
I beg to differ, I have a near indestructible Apple Watch Ultra that has several days of battery life and a cellular connection so I can use it on runs, hikes etc… to make/receive calls, write basic replies to messages, stream podcats and spotify as well as all the activity stuff. It also acts as a Tesla key, NFC touch payments and when I go to the gym all of the cardiovascular machines have Apple watch integration so my vitals are all synced up.
Early gens of Apple watches were indeed crap but with a data connection and several generations worth of refinement, its the shit!!
There’s a trade-off between functionality and battery life. Since people use watches for so many different things, the ideal point on this trade-off curve will vary for each person.
I hate charging watches, so I go all the way to the extreme of chosing a very dumb casio watch which has a multi-year battery life (or maybe an infinite life if it has a solar charger built-in).
Range anxiety was the same impediment to me getting an EV for quite a few years, but once you jump in you realise its not an issue at all.
In the case of the watch I have two of these (home and office) and when I’m working I just mount all my devices to the tree for a top up. Its become completely routine and my batteries never drop below 60%.
And when I’m travelling or on vacation I use one of these on my bedside table.
For me it makes sense as I never wear watches 24/7 since its good to let your skin breath from time to time and also stop the build up of bacteria that feed on sweat and dead skin
I find charging a watch every couple of weeks less hassle than charging a phone everyday and that’s hardly a big ordeal in the grand scheme of things.