As for blood oxygen, one useful thing is for COVID patients. My brother had to get himself to the hospital when his blood oxygen went down below a threshold. The AW is also adding a recording for your VO2 Max, which is a useful indicator of health. You can actively work on improving this via cardiovascular exercise. HIIT has proven effective at this, including the Tabata Protocol of 4 minutes a day, 5 days a week. More info:
Sorry, for the other two, there are a TON of precautionary articles that say do not rely on Apple Watch for this. It isn’t necessarily accurate enough and can end up with a lot of people unnecessarily going to the doctor and a lot of people not going when they should. Absolutely rely on a real pulse oximeter for COVID symptoms and not this.
As for VO2 max, this hasn’t launched yet so we can’t test it or see how much of a difference it makes. A follow up will be coming.
I haven’t looked, are people saying the AW blood oxygen sensor doesn’t work as well as the cheap pulse oximeters on amazon? I’ve only read comments here saying they’re reading the same?
As for blood oxygen, one useful thing is for COVID patients. My brother had to get himself to the hospital when his blood oxygen went down below a threshold. The AW is also adding a recording for your VO2 Max, which is a useful indicator of health. You can actively work on improving this via cardiovascular exercise. HIIT has proven effective at this, including the Tabata Protocol of 4 minutes a day, 5 days a week. More info:
Sorry, for the other two, there are a TON of precautionary articles that say do not rely on Apple Watch for this. It isn’t necessarily accurate enough and can end up with a lot of people unnecessarily going to the doctor and a lot of people not going when they should. Absolutely rely on a real pulse oximeter for COVID symptoms and not this.
As for VO2 max, this hasn’t launched yet so we can’t test it or see how much of a difference it makes. A follow up will be coming.
I haven’t looked, are people saying the AW blood oxygen sensor doesn’t work as well as the cheap pulse oximeters on amazon? I’ve only read comments here saying they’re reading the same?
pulse oximetry is prone to artifact and reflective oximetry (the type used by AW) is less reliable than transmissive oximetry (the kind used by the finger clips.) Having a pulse oximeter on the watch is a neat idea and kind of cool, but as a practical matter it's of rather limited utility for the vast majority of people. Currently, if you have COVID it's worth it, for some people with significant lung disease it might be worth it. For the average person there's not much use in it.
I've got a series 3 that will still give me about 30 hours on a charge, depending on the use. I routinely need to use it for 24 hours at a stretch, so 18 house on the S6 isn't going to cut it for me. I wonder if it's possible to disable some of the features to get better battery life? Otherwise I'll just stick with my S3
Boy, that’s an ugly watch. It’s probably ok as a fitness device that you take off as soon as you’re done with your workout, or for the elderly. I’ve owned over the years many Apple devices but this watch is just plain stupid looking and wouldn’t touch. I think Jobs is restless in his grave.
...and like clockwork, a troll comment from johnbear!
As for blood oxygen, one useful thing is for COVID patients. My brother had to get himself to the hospital when his blood oxygen went down below a threshold. The AW is also adding a recording for your VO2 Max, which is a useful indicator of health. You can actively work on improving this via cardiovascular exercise. HIIT has proven effective at this, including the Tabata Protocol of 4 minutes a day, 5 days a week. More info:
Sorry, for the other two, there are a TON of precautionary articles that say do not rely on Apple Watch for this. It isn’t necessarily accurate enough and can end up with a lot of people unnecessarily going to the doctor and a lot of people not going when they should. Absolutely rely on a real pulse oximeter for COVID symptoms and not this.
As for VO2 max, this hasn’t launched yet so we can’t test it or see how much of a difference it makes. A follow up will be coming.
I haven’t looked, are people saying the AW blood oxygen sensor doesn’t work as well as the cheap pulse oximeters on amazon? I’ve only read comments here saying they’re reading the same?
pulse oximetry is prone to artifact and reflective oximetry (the type used by AW) is less reliable than transmissive oximetry (the kind used by the finger clips.) Having a pulse oximeter on the watch is a neat idea and kind of cool, but as a practical matter it's of rather limited utility for the vast majority of people. Currently, if you have COVID it's worth it, for some people with significant lung disease it might be worth it. For the average person there's not much use in it.
I've got a series 3 that will still give me about 30 hours on a charge, depending on the use. I routinely need to use it for 24 hours at a stretch, so 18 house on the S6 isn't going to cut it for me. I wonder if it's possible to disable some of the features to get better battery life? Otherwise I'll just stick with my S3
I also have an AW3 and I'm thinking about holding off one more year for the reasons you mentioned. Don't know if you saw this but Apple rates all watches as having an 18 hour battery. I'm sure the 6 would get similar battery life provided you don't make use of the added sensors that much. https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/
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I haven’t looked, are people saying the AW blood oxygen sensor doesn’t work as well as the cheap pulse oximeters on amazon? I’ve only read comments here saying they’re reading the same?
I've got a series 3 that will still give me about 30 hours on a charge, depending on the use. I routinely need to use it for 24 hours at a stretch, so 18 house on the S6 isn't going to cut it for me. I wonder if it's possible to disable some of the features to get better battery life? Otherwise I'll just stick with my S3