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by gullywhumper 2485 days ago
The two features I probably find most valuable with my Apple Watch are that it's usually easier look at my wrist to see if I'm getting an important call rather than having to dig into my pocket, jacket, or bag to find the phone, and then I wake up 1.5 hours earlier than my wife and the vibrating alarm means I'm much less disruptive.
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Question from a non-Apple watch user, but an interested prospective consumer: if you have to charge your watch at night, how do you use it to wake you up?
It charges very quickly, and I usually charge before bed, during shower, etc.
I like that feature but, for some reason, I always have issues answering the call on my watch. It doesn't happen every time but it happens often enough that looking at new routers and cell carriers. From what I can tell, no one else I know that has an Apple Watch has this problem. They're always Dick Tracy'ing everywhere and I'm always staring at my wrist saying "Hello... hello... hello..." like some crazy person. I wish that feature worked more for me. It might even be a minority of the time but it's just far more memorable for me when it doesn't work because it's always when I need it to work the most (when my hands are full and I need to answer with my nose, for example). It'll get there at some point for me, I hope. It's very convenient.