i've been daily driving the apple watch series 5 for many months now but the
series 6 is about as unexcited as i've been for a daily driver update in
my memory now part of it is that the apple watch series 6 is just not a very
big update so you get the new s6 processor but from what i've seen people
talking about so far daily use is pretty much unchanged you
get an altimeter so you can tell how high you are you get actually that would
be a useful feature for a lot of people you get a blood oxygen monitor although
there's a fair bit of um debate as to
well how accurate it is and you get a brighter always on display now i'm a big
fan of always on displays and in fact that's one of the reasons that i wear an
apple watch series 5 on the daily not because i daily drive an iphone i happen
to be daily driving an iphone right now because i'm working on my 12 pro review
but normally i don't i just use it as a watch and it's sort of my it's my
protest against the deplorable state of Android wearables if Android device
makers could make a better one then i would switch to that this device serves
no purpose other than for me to tell the time now technically it does still have
all the same fitness tracking capabilities that it would if it were
paired to an iphone it's just that i find them quite frankly pretty useless
half the time i'm in the middle of a really intense workout i'm moving around
a ton my heart rate's at like 185 and it's like hey why don't you stand up for
a bit and the other half the time i'm driving and it's like great workout
Linus keep it up okay
the stupid part is again back to the deplorable state of Android wearables my
experience with it has been better than any other one as far as fitness tracking
goes all right let's open this puppy up wow
that's uh huh that's an apple watch all right one thing i would have been really
happy with though is the quality of this just like generic fabric strap that they
include i guess i shouldn't call it generic for a velcro-like material
this has held up incredibly well too i guess almost a year of use like it still
works just exactly like the day i got it and it's not all fuzzy on the spot where
it always sticks it's called velcro velcro and then there's vel se it's like
not quite as good okay we apparently got 44 wow
oh crap if this series 5 wasn't greasy
it would be kind of hard to tell the difference okay it's got i've got a
matte finish matte finish on the series six
other than that these things are darn near identical you got the one button
you got the crown you still got the little red accent on the crown
same watch strap attachment mechanism i love that this is tool-less like that is
a that is a big deal not having to fiddle around with a little weird tool
or screwdriver or anything like that like why did that take the watch
industry you know 200 years or whatever one other
key giveaway actually is if you look at the sensor array on the back it does
look a little bit different so the series six uh the altimeter is obviously
not uh something that needs to go right up against your skin but the blood oxygen
monitor presumably is part of this new and updated looking sensor array there's
some software updates too first let's pair it to the phone though start
pairing i love this process so much oh that's cool so set up for a family
member this is interesting one of the new software features that they launched
with the series 6 is the ability to buy an apple watch for your kid
instead of having them equipped with a cell phone and then you can set it up as
a managed device i thought that was pretty neat
i love this this is apple's fancy qr code it's wonderful oh got a teams
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let's actually talk about the apple watch sc so it replaces the series five
in their lineup it comes in a little over a hundred dollars cheaper than the
series six and the main difference is that it uses the older s5 processor it
does not have the new blood oxygen tracking feature although it does have
the altimeter and where the series 6 gets a brighter always on display the se
does not have always on display at all
so in my honest opinion apple shouldn't call this the apple
watch se they should call it the apple wrist ornament that is blank except when
you do the silly gesture and they shouldn't be allowed to call it a watch
at all that was one of the big things that made me super happy about the
series 5 was that it finally had an always on display so if you want to save
100 bucks or so this is an option but personally i would go out and try and
find a secondhand series 5 so you get that always on display because otherwise
the only difference here is that this one has the altimeter and the series
five doesn't so unless you do a whole lot of like
high vertical biking or or jogging or whatever else i
don't see a ton of value to it oh that's
interesting well i saw someone claiming online that as
part of apple's eco-friendly policy of not including chargers there was no
charger included but you do get the wireless like dock thing for it it's
just that you don't get a wall warp but i actually thought there was no wall word included with the previous one so
i am uh not sure what to tell you guys about that other than that there is no wall
board included if you were expecting one but with something like the watch
honestly it doesn't really bother me that much by the time you're the kind of
person that has like wearable devices i
would expect you to pretty much have a usb charging hub or even a wireless like
multi wireless dock sitting on your nightstand neat i haven't touched the
apple watch app in quite some time so i can change my colors
look at that change my colors i can change the background of the watch
face hello oh nice this unicorn is tremendous though i
would like a pink unicorn oh you can't change the color of the unicorn only the
background dang it apple since there weren't a lot of groundbreaking hardware
updates it makes sense to focus more on the software update so there's a sleep
tracker now it'll tell you how long you were in bed and how long you slept for
although it doesn't have quite the same amount of information as some other
third party sleep tracking softwares that actually ties in really nicely with
the slightly faster charger it'll apparently fully charge in about two
hours meaning that you can kind of um you know sip charge it here and there
in order to try and take advantage of those sleep tracking features they've
got some new fitness features so you can have preset workouts now and there's
apparently a hand washing timer i want to find that
look hand washing hand washing app david apple watch can detect when you're
washing your hands and start a 20 second timer can i get some sound effects here
you're not doing well enough you're not doing a good enough job
nope uh yeah maybe it needs to get wet uh lgt
store.com i need a water bottle here we go turning on the tap
oh slowly slowly we gotta make it last for a bit it's gotta start a
siri why is siri coming up right now yeah
we're just about out of water now oh okay
all right well it was worth the shot thanks brandon sure uh fitness plus service is coming so
it's gonna be like fitness tracking and workout videos i mean
good luck with that let's go ahead and try the blood oxygen measurement how do
i do it like now uh someone should strangle you
uh wow tell me how you really feel
oh here it is blood oxygen
checking my blood oxygen
98 percent
ow well how many is that that's going to be
six already
come on
and this this is why
my apple watch that i daily drives not connected to anything if you can't trust
it how can you make like personal health decisions based on
it if it works a third of the time my blood pressure is probably going up just
being frustrated by this thing not working right to be clear apple's not
pitching the blood oxygen thing as it's a medical device they're just saying
that it's like well it's there it's not like fda approved or anything like that
it's just it's in there
no unfortunately you can't that's one of the things i'd really like to see apple
clue into at some point that customers who don't buy it right or buy
the entire ecosystem are still potential customers i would actually love
to use an apple watch with my Android phone
that could be an amazing experience there's a lot of things that i love
about what apple does and the watch is frankly one of them i mean the hardware
is just even though they've barely touched this
design in like what five years or six years or whatever it is
it's still so much better than what anyone who's not cloning apple is doing
that um yeah i would i would absolutely love
to use an apple watch with my Android phone so there's not a lot new here
which has some people questioning the need for apple to even continue with
annual releases but i think i can probably provide some insight into that
one of the things that we've discovered running lttstore.com
ltdstore.com is that one of the best
promotional things that you can do is launch a new product it works way better
than offering a discount or a shipping promotion or even like conventional
marketing because that's what gets people interested in talking like what's
new not like what already existed but is probably a
good product and good value so even though the new apple watch just has a
slightly better processor slightly brighter ambient display it's about the
same price so yeah i guess better is better not going to complain about it
and i understand why they're doing it so that we'll all talk about it because i wasn't going to make another video about
the series 5 right and yet here i am with the series
6 even though it's like eh
and the sc yeah but the sd doesn't have an always on display so it's not a watch
yeah it's the stupid gesture nonsense again so subscribe to ShortCircuit for
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hand washing simulation hand washing simulator here let's try
again no we're not going to try that okay i'm going to try i'm going to i'm
going to try it one more time one more time without the water you ready david yeah jono can you do the sound effects
for me hold hold on hold on
did i turn the faucet johnny i'm sorry okay okay you ready
where's the soap
we're trying here smiling freaking unicorn taunting me