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by jackvalentine 2054 days ago
I actually haven't seen or touched my phone in over a week. It's plugged in hidden away in my apartment but my Apple Watch seems to last a whole day if it's on the office wifi and I can take calls/do some really light texting/look at my calendar but using it for anything long winded is too much of a chore.

I'm hoping this cures me of using the phone to fill every tiny moment of downtime.

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Yep, same here. I got my very first Apple Watch last month, and it has /drastically/ decreased my phone usage. Sometimes I go out to run errands without my phone, paying for things with Apple Pay on the watch. It's liberating.

I do still bring my phone around though, mostly for the camera.

There are some things that are infuriating about the watch though, when it feels as if what I want to do is artificially constrained by the software. Why can't I copy and paste a link to send in a message? Why can't I simply read a podcast description? Why do podcasts refresh seemingly at random?

Other than a few niggling frustrations, I'm extremely happy with the watch.

When the LTE Apple Watch will be launched here in the Netherlands I’m hoping to try the exact same thing

Yes, we are still waiting on iWatch’es with LTE enabled...