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what's up guys brian tong here with um the apple watch series 3 LTE review and this is not gonna be about specs this is based on my experiences the things that i really like and the things that they can make a lot better so let's just talk about it right now the series 3 LTE watch you know that i'm kind of like a hater on siri but I've got to say on this specific watch Siri is great they bumped up the processor it's so much more responsive it talks back to you yeah sure when you do text and dictation it might miss a word here and there but overall it's really good and you know I am still the type of person that doesn't like to talk in public directly to my wrist but Syria is one of the highlights of this Apple watch hey Siri how do I meet girls okay what's up the other part is battery life like I was surprised by this I did everything from taking calls getting text messages sending them back and forth going to work out for an entire hour listen to music and I didn't try and force it to run down its battery I just wanted to do what I would normally do everyday this battery held up I mean from like 9:00 a.m. all the way to 9:00 p.m. I still had 22% left and that's really a lot more impressive than I thought I was worried about this whole one hour of talk time you're not gonna talk in it for an hour but it does last throughout the day and I thought that was another highlight and the third thing working out like I can't tell you this is amazing it's like I'm listen to my music I can take calls I can do text messages all from my wrist I'm still connected and it's just an experience that if you're someone that wants to try this or you haven't done it it really makes this Apple watch special you may not be that person but this is where it's at now let's get to the ways that they can improve this Apple watch Series 3 I started with the good stuff because I know a lot of you think I'm like a hater I'm not I just want to keep it real with you but first up it has to be about the connection from the watch to the iPhone we know that Apple has said they're gonna release a software update to fix that they really need to do it ASAP because I don't think you can give a fair evaluation of this when it gets hung looking for an open Wi-Fi network and it can't connect and you basically have no connection that's still a problem so fix that first that's got to be the top priority the second thing that really needs to be fixed or Apple needs to be clear about is messages now we were given the promise that hey this is gonna work with your phone you can receive messages back and forth okay but in the real world what I found is when you have your phone connected to you with your watch nearby yes you're gonna get SMS you're gonna get AI messages back and forth but if you're on the go and your phone is off and let's say you just want to use this exclusively and this is exclusively connected to LTE you can only receive I messages and not SMS messages from your friends that don't use iPhones Apple never said that that's kind of a big deal in being able to really be free from this and we confirm this ourselves with my use I got a lot of users to confirm this and then Apple we went to them and they said yes that's absolutely true the LTE Apple watch only sends IO messages if your phone is disconnected and you're over LTE another issue here is just getting your phone connected the devil is always in the details right Apple said it's $10 for you to add an Apple watch to your current data plan but look someone like me and many of you who are on grandfathered data plans from like 8 9 10 years ago they're gonna ask you to upgrade your data plan in order to use the Apple watch and what does that mean your bill is gonna go up like they told me I'd have to pay 20 more dollars in addition to the $10 for the Apple watch so a lot of this just being able to just instantly use this with your current plan it's just not true and it can be really discouraging for people that don't know this at all the other thing about the Apple watch here is really the actual speaker on it is a week and what I mean that by that I don't want it to be blaring out in public but whenever you use it as a watch phone or you know even when you're in your car driving or just small moments it's really quite like it just has to be amped up just like a few more notches I know this is nitpicking but for those of you that are using this yes most of time you'll probably have headphones with it but there are times where you don't and it just needs to be a little bit louder - quick software things if you talk about apps on this right now there's not a lot of third-party apps that work specifically with the watch over LTE that don't need the phone they need to get on that like Twitter needs to get on that Instagram needs to get on that just being able to do apps exclusively on the watch that don't ask you for the phone because it kind of makes it less useful and the other thing let's be honest here they say you can read email on here but 95% of the emails that I get they tell me to go to my phone to read them and unless you're getting just a simple basic text email you're not gonna use this for email pretty much at all so what's the verdict on the Apple watch Series three look I can confidently tell you this is not for everyone but if you're someone who has one and wants to upgrade you're gonna love the performance you're gonna love this serie but you're also gonna pretty much use it exactly the same way you do with your Series one or your Series two connecting it to your phone but if you're a person who likes to go out and work out this is where it's shined the most I have never had an experience that was that connected and that seamless listen to music working out taking phone calls text messaging just on my wrist that was amazing so if you're that person this is the watch for you so take everything I said into consideration the good things the bad things that's our Apple watch 3 3 LG reviews and again it shines the most when you're working out there's a fly that just landed on - 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