Apple Watches: SE vs. Series 8

[DuluthGA]

I recharge at night as i don’t like it on when I’m sleeping and don’t care about what it might say about how i sleep
I’ve had my SE a couple of years and no battery problems yet.
I do like the heart beat monitor when I’m playing pickleball on asphalt in the hot GA July sun!

 

[mpeirce]

Plus, I really like the alarm function. I don’t get up early too often but when I need to set an alarm, having it on my wrist makes it easy to snooze and pretty quiet so it doesn’t wake up DW. I could probably set it to only vibrate to wake me but I haven’t looked into how to do that yet.

My DF is becoming pretty deaf and the vibration of the watch is the only thing that reliably wakes him up.

 

[Dreamer]

We have the Series 8. I did not think that I would like it as much as I do. I like that I can see messages even if my phone is in another room. It has detected that I have fallen twice and asked if I needed emergency services. I did not need them.

I need to read more about one can do or not do, as I take my watch off at night, since messages were waking me up. I did not know about sleep mode or being able to turn off display, unless you turn your wrist.

 

[athena53]

I have a car charger as well. I typically recharge while I'm eating dinner but on road trips it's good to charge it in the car while I'm sedentary anyway and have ready access to a dashboard clock.

It did annoy me that I immediately had to go out and buy a special wall charger because the one that came with it (no choice hen I ordered it) was hard-wired to a USB connector not compatible with my Windows machine. Like they HAD to do something different?