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it's been about two months since the Apple watch Series three hit and during that time I've had it on my wrist almost every single day so I wanted to do a full review of the Apple watch we didn't do a review when it first came out I wanted to get a chance to know it a little better see if there were any giant differences before I jump into that I want to talk a little bit about smart watches in general I am a ball a conflicted emotion when it comes to these little computers on my wrist part of me wants to be like what's the point apps on your wrist are stupid they're slow they're hard to launch and it just as easy to look at my phone it's but it's a notification the other part of me when I don't wear a Smart Watch super misses it and I'm not sure which side is winning so my approach with smart watches is kind of like a question mark are they useful sometimes are they not useful yeah probably but the app and watch Series three does bring something new that takes it one step closer to actual utility and that's LTE availability you can tell you've got an LTE model buy the real red on the crown and that's pretty much the only way you can tell you've got an Apple watch Series three as opposed to wrap and watch series two really the original Apple watch so a couple things I really like about this series story I think Apple improved over previous versions that is battery life hotdamn is battery life good I went three days without charging the Apple watch by time one day went by use about 30% so 3% each day is pretty awesome it's going for about 7:00 a.m. until about 10:00 p.m. the big caveat though if you have LTE turned on or leased LTE active so if you leave your phone at home it'll detect that and I'll turn the LTE modem on by your life with LTE is not great I get a test of able to make a one-hour phone call on the watch with LTE and that drained the battery from complete to zero if you've got LTE on and just like out walking in the park or something you can generally get through maybe about five to six hours away before the battery life is gonna come pretty close to dead but I don't think the use case is most people using LTE all time I think it's using LTE when you're going for a run you're going for swim or doing a workout that's when you want have the benefit of how LTE on those kind of things it works pretty well one of the big benefits of LTE and this wasn't there at launch actually was the ability to stream Apple music to wireless headphones when you don't have your phone near you and I tried it paired with some air pods it worked really well as I went for my run I could ask whatever song I wanted to play I could play playlist anything I wanted to do anything I could do it Apple music for my phone I could just do with my watch and if music is something that's really important to you and maybe you wanna listen to music at home or by your bedside I want to thank the folks at iHome for sponsoring this video making it possible particular there is 16 and this thing does absolutely everything it's an alarm clock it's got alexa built-in it's got a USB port on the back for charging your Apple watch ever else you want to charge and most importantly I think it addresses the big shortcoming with an Amazon echo device they don't have a screen so if you have an alarm set you wake up in the middle of night you want to know what time it is you got to ask it and it's loud and quake up the person sleeping next to you this has a screen built-in it's got really cool LED lights that will glow when you ask Alexa question it does everything in a really nice small compact footprint I'll link to it down below if you want to check it out the Apple X series 3 seems geared towards the Fitbit crowd the folks don't want a SmartWatch this geared towards workouts you've got a barometric altimeter in here you've got new workout apps and make it easier it automatically detect when you are working out got a revised heart rate sensor so if you need to watch to work out it's still probably the best going and mid will be a short out a little bit more but and I did do the workout it worked out great when I'd start working out and I forget to set my watch it would know and it would start tracking and that was nice I liked the added heartrate stuff that it does if you aren't too working out then that might be read to get the Apple watch when it comes to me in Fitness I'm generally only fitting this whole pizza in my mouth some other nice things versus previous versions this one's way faster the Apple watch series one was certainly slow was launching the apps off to watch you've got a little bit quicker the jump from two to three though seems like it three or four times as fast if you want to launch apps and speaking of apps I don't I don't use them on a smart one I think it's cumbersome to find them when they launch they're not that useful it's easier for me just to look at my phone no one kind of really ever use apps to check like a football school or something on ESPN but that was pretty much it for me my use case for the watch gently notifications being able to talk to Siri and Shannel talks back to you with the Apple watch search tree which is nice and then being able to make an occasional phone call and lt it using a speakerphone so maybe for me the series 3 isn't necessary most of those things I could do on series 2 but being able to have LTE has been nice for that peace of mind but all that peace of mind is damn expensive you're starting at four hundred bucks to get a1 to the LTE then it's depending on your carrier about ten bucks a month for the LTE service then you gotta have an iPhone to go along with that but time you get all this stuff together if you've got a new generation iPhone you're looking at like 1500 bucks just to get out the door and that's a lot of money to have freedom from your phone it's also kind of weird that Apple's trying to sell you on freedom from your phone while also trying to tell you phone all right so who is the Apple watch Series through four first if you already know you're an Apple watch fan and you want to upgrade things yet you're gonna do it anyway for coming from the first gen Apple watch it's gonna be a gigantic update for you not only for battery life but for speed and overall OS and software improvements it's a gigantic improvement we're coming from a series to I mean other than LTE there's very little difference here there's some new band colors but you can you can just buy those from the Apple Store or buy a ton of third-party bands from Amazon that's who the watch is for other than that I'm not sure who the target market is I like it I don't love it kind of sums up my apathy in general toward smartwatches and not just the Apple watch and I think having worn android wear for four years now the OS that Apple's got on the Apple watch called watch OS there's way better and more intuitive than Android wear but their heart they both do the same thing and if that same thing that it does is for you be great if it doesn't you can skip it wait for next gen and hopefully we'll see a design change and maybe a little round screen or these sort of look noticeably different than the very first version that's hit all right so that's the up and watch series three it's kind of the same thoughts I've had for one and two it's probably the best SmartWatch out there without you need a SmartWatch or you want a SmartWatch and I came down to your personal usage if you want the latest from Apple and get it if you're a workout fanatic you wanna be able to track your heart rate a little bit better maybe you run up in the mountains I don't want to know your altitude it's nice to have if you're coming from the first gen watch and you want the waterproofing and you want the speed nice to have that there as well if you're rocking a series - I think stick with your series - for another year perhaps your patience will be rewarded and let me know what you guys think did you buy a series three if you did why you're using LTE the next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo dr. guys the next video