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it's been six months since I reviewed the Apple watch Series three and it's been about three years since Apple first launched the Apple watch that's a long time and it's a long time that I've been wearing the Apple watch Series three what does it feel like to wear the watch is it worth the upgrade and are there any things I love and things I'm really annoyed by here's my check-in so things I love I like what the Apple watch does with the music and that was a surprise to me because I'm not really big music listener on my watch in general but if you're inside the Apple music ecosystem and you have music there it syncs now in a way that automatically does it before you even decide you want to do it and the fact that it puts recently listened to albums and a couple of playlists automatically on there it's enough music to keep me going it's like an iPod however because there's no headphone jack on this and if you want to take phone calls and not speak on the speakerphone you're gonna want to use Bluetooth headphones or air pods and luckily this ecosystem works really well Apple bet that with air pods and Apple watch and the iPhone that you can use them all together and they work seamlessly and they do however you have to buy them all and that's a lot of Apple gear between the iPhone and the air pods and Apple watch if you've got two of the three then getting the other you know what you're gonna get a really good experience I'm gonna take these air pods out of my ears now and not wear them for this entire thing the Apple watch also has pretty good fitness tracking and pretty good meaning that for everyday stuff that I need it does a perfectly fine job keeps track of my steps gives me a little nudges in the morning in the evening to complete my goals and complete those rings I like the enhancements to heart rate tracking I like that it tells me my average resting heart rate I like that it tells me my average walking heart rate even if I'm not tracking an activity for some reason I like checking that it makes me feel better about myself I like how the Apple watch handles messaging I'm not gonna respond to messages all the time on this that would be ridiculous but I like being able to check quick text messages to look messages on slack that might pop up dictation is a bit hit or miss but again it's the most hooked in way to respond to messages if I've got a knife I like paying for things with Apple pay on the watch why because it's right there and it's double-click and pretty convenient it's actually a lot more convenient than paying for things with the iPhone 10 where I have to Center my face and click and do that hey Siri set a timer for 10 minutes that's like the thing I do the most I basically just use this for setting timers I use it to find my phone there it is it was in my lab what else is really good about this it's fast it's really fast and this is kind of surprising if you haven't used an Apple watch in a while you forget that three years ago the Apple watch was really slow it took a long time to load apps it took so long you didn't want to do certain things now the Apple watch is generally so quick at loading things that it feels pretty seamless and that's nice because it's basically at the point where I wanted it to be three years ago when I first reviewed one that looked pretty similar to this so your the thing is I'm not so wild about let's start with cellular a lot of people may love the cellular function and it works fine to use it as a phone away from the iPhone but I'm always carrying my phone with me and the amount of cost per month really needs to change it's about ten dollars it's more than ten dollars a month when you add in taxes and that amount to be able to use your cell phone plan on another device is way too much for a watch and I'm okay with the Apple watch general design but it has looked the same for a while that's skwerkel has been around for a long time the rectangular skwerkel I'd like a little bit of a change I also like some new watch faces because Apple's watch faces are very nice but there is no watch face store why is there no watch face store it I want my New York Jets watch face I want my sonic the hedghog watch face my NFL stats watch face Pebble had new watch faces come on and as far as fitness tracking goes it's not all perfect in fact there are a lot of things I would still like to change one of them is the stand right one of the three rings is supposed to motivate you to stand more and I always close the stand ring look I've almost closed it right now I've been sitting all day long I don't want to recharge the SmartWatch every night I want to be able to wear the Apple watch all the time battery life is better now it's about two full days maybe but to be safe I charge it every night because I don't want it to run out and that's annoying that's really annoying other watches like fit last longer look at this I have a faded part of my wrist because I've worn a watch non-stop since I was about 12 I like wearing a watch all the time day and night I know that's weird but that's me let me be me I also want the Apple watch to be free to be free of the iPhone to be its own device why can't it be something like the iPod which you could use with a Windows computer and you could set up you still needed iTunes but the iPod stood on its own the Apple watch needs an iPhone and that's a lot of money to put into the Apple ecosystem again I would like if you will set this up with anything or even people who didn't have the fanciest smartphones that could just use this to track or get notifications connecting their home just let it be a standalone but despite my gripes the Apple watch is still my favorite SmartWatch right now and that's because it's largely won the war of attrition on wearables because a lot of the competitors are now out of the landscape and a lot of people are just not making great smartwatches Apple has stayed true to the course and improved a lot of things over time and that's paid off in making a much more refined product in the end it's not everything that I've wanted to be but it's a lot better comparatively than other things that are on the market if you have an iPhone if you have an iPhone that's the big if hey thanks a lot for watching so what do you like about the Apple watch Series three do you think it's great do you think it's terrible is there anything you've dreamed of that you want to have be different let us know in the comments and thanks a lot for watching Oh