Watch Talk - Apple Watch 6 - General Boards Archive Forum

If you don’t like watches, please don't respond with your talk about how much you Iove your phone and don’t need a watch to tell time. I hate phones.

I think I am about to pull the trigger on an Apple Watch 6. I currently wear a Garmin Tactix all the time, but it’s only good for running and that is about it. I can swap out when running and wear it while charging the Apple 6.

Does anyone have one and like it? Hate it? I tried the Nike Apple Watch last year and I think I expected too much and returned it. Now I am thinking about going back. I realized that with a broken leg and even without, I really don’t care about my steps or goals and stuff. I run enough to take care of all of that. I just like the idea of seeing texts and more info without touching my phone. Did I mention I hate phones? Cause I hate phones.

Thoughts? Opinions?

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Mar 23, 2021, 10:17 PM

I was a good friend of your dad’s. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully, you’ll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talking right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I’m talking to you, Butch. I got something for you.

This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather’s war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane’s luck wasn’t as good as his old man’s. Dane was a Marine and he was killed, along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his dad’s gold watch.

This watch. This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it’d be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He’d be ###### if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ###. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ###. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ### two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

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Watch Talk - Apple Watch 6

Fan boy here, so there is that.

What’s the range?

Not a fan of trying to text from it. Reading messages is

So it doesn't have to be close to your phone?

Yea, like $10 or $15 a month

texting quick replies is easy if you just use dictation.***

How's that dictation?

Thank you sir.

I carried my grandfather's pocket watch for years.

Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See,

pocket watches are cool, because there's prolly

Like papa g said if you’re in the ecosystem it’s a no-

Is there a second bill in addition to your phone?

I had the 4 with cellular and it was like a second cell

Re: Watch Talk - Apple Watch 6

I would expect nothing less***

I love watches.

I am with you, thats why when I was laying awake

Greenr has toyed with the idea of Garmin for running and

Oh yeah, my Garmin is mean to me, her Apple watch is

Had friend who wanted to be able to listen to podcasts while

With cellular or pre-loaded with podcasts? Wife doesn't

I don't think you need cellular for this, but she has it

WHY U NEED PHONE WATCH WHEN U HAVE

Life expectancies of my watches, phones, sunglasses are ...

the fatal flaw of these watches

They are BETTER now but you are right

if/when they add solar charging capable, I'm back in

I am just not paying $800 for a Garmin any longer

I always buy older model Garmins when the new ones come out

Just keep a charger in your car and charge during commutes***

Rolex Milgauss or GTFO

Silver, huh?

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