sweetheart777

kwalkerk said:

While I agree with almost everything in the review, I have one huge drawback with my new Xs Max.  Battery life.  I upgraded from a 6s+ which would easily go all day with my usage pattern.  Now I'm lucky if the Xs Max makes it to mid afternoon before needing a recharge.  Going to monitor a couple more days, and if no improvement will be taking it back to ATT.

I have no idea how you’re burning through the battery in half a day. I’m a heavy user and the XS Max gets most of the way through 2 days, and that’s with pretty heavy Personal Hotspot use, lots of productivity apps and talk time over my AirPods and car Bluetooth (not CarPlay)

Have you checked which apps are using the battery? Are you in a poor signal area? 

I think the orange, indigo and cream band is gorgeous. Very stylish. 

Taste is subjective, though. I wish the rouge and cream were available for 44mm. I would wear the **** out of that band. 

There are millions (billions?) of Apple Watches. The only way to personalize is through bands and faces. I would love a herringbone band!

The absence of bands for Android Wear shows how important style is to its audience. 

Not a big deal. When you’re making 70 million of something, you may need to plan ahead.

Faster is great. I’m paying through every imaginable orifice for 40 GB/month. I can easily rip through all of that in 42 minutes on Verizon with my iPhone X, especially with my Mac tethered to it. If I still had the “unlimited” plan, which would cap me to 8 GB/month before throttling back to 3G speeds of around 25 KB/second, which is only fast enough for email and iMessage, I can blast through that in 7-8 minutes.

Watch a 4K movie or two and that’s 10GB. Verizon charges $15 for each additional 1 GB. I don’t worry about the price of movies on iTunes. $15 movie, but downloading costs 5x as much and Hulu/YouTube make it difficult to download while you’re at Starbucks to watch later.

i don’t need faster. I need cheaper. Why bother getting 5G if it means I can burn through my data cap in under one minute. Then I’m looking for free wi-fi anywhere I can find it. I end up eating crap Thai food at this restaurant because the laundromat next door has 110 mbps down. Food might kill me, but for $10, I get pad Thai, a Thai iced tea and download 2-3 movies.

Gonna hang on to my rose gold series 0 and my white ceramic series 2, which are both in daily (alternating) use. Series 0 could use a new battery though.