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this video is sponsored by the good folks at LastPass what's going on Internet I am John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo wherever you are you are having a nice day Apple watch series for my thoughts and opinions have changed as I continue to use it so if you didn't see our for you the Apple watch will link it down below in up top I'm not gonna recap the full review but just for an update I'm rockin the Space Gray aluminum case with the black sport band so the Apple watch series for it got thinner and Apple Shrunk the battery life and their initial review I said battery life wasn't as good as series 3 since software updates have hit actually pair life has gotten awesome for me I can get almost 2 to 3 days on the Apple watch series 4 which is been absolutely awesome I do have the LTE version I was super pumped initially about the raise to talk to Siri kind of thing as it turns out in practice it is spotty and hasn't worked as well as I'd expect sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work sometimes it turns itself on for no reason that I found to be a little bit on the annoying side with the screen being 30% bigger here I had hoped it could be used for more than notifications I thought that maybe when links came in I could look at them I could maybe view pictures that is not really been the case here it is still essentially a notification machine but it is the best notification machine that I've used but do you think Apple is missing a huge opportunity to have an app store for watch faces be able to customize it how you want and all fairness apples got a lot of awesome ones but I haven't found a watch face that gives me everything that I want that is one area where I think where OS has definitely has the advantage and not really negatives but there are still some things I wish the Apple watch would have I've talked really publicly about battling insomnia this morning alone I was up at 3:30 in the morning I would love to have some sort of first party sleep tracking built into the watch it also since it displays OLED and battery life has improved I would like to see some sort of always-on display the race to waken all fairness does work well and it usually works pretty quickly but having the option to turn it on or off I think would be really nice to have the last kind of knock on the Apple watch so I get to all the positive has been serious shortcoming on tennis Mac I set up a ton of them but using them on the watch is totally useless so for example when I'm leaving work I have one set up to tell my wife I'm leaving work it sends your text message and it makes it a lot easier for me if I try to do it from my Apple watch it's not a seamless process I wish there was more integration between series shortcuts and the Apple those are really the only negatives that I've had I love the Apple watch it is not coming off my wrist Apple made some other changes too they move the speaker to the other side of the watch from where it was and that is made the speaker really loud in fact I can use it people might look at me weird but I can make phone calls when I'm out in public and I can clearly hear the person whereas before I couldn't hear it that always cancelling mics also do a really good job people sometimes can't even tell that I'm talking to them on my watch another kind of gimmicky feature this is just software not exclusive to the series for that I'm using way more than I thought is walkie talkie essentially it sets up a FaceTime audio call from watch to watch I love using it my wife uses an Apple watch I can talk to really quickly if I'm upstairs and she's downstairs it is absolutely unnecessary it's gratuitous but it's a feature that I'm finding myself using more and more almost on a daily basis and I'm really happy that it's there watch miss of the hole hasn't changed that much it's still the same weird grid of icons that you scroll through it has changed is the s4 chip and the s4 chip is really fast it is a really snappy 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it's an awesome service it's secure it's safe to make your life easier check him out so the initial review I mentioned that I thought the series four is kind of a stopgap design until the Apple watch went round I'm gonna backtrack on that I've actually really come to appreciate the new rounded design the way that watch looks I think it also gives more functionality to the complications being able to put things in the corners that you would lose if the watch went round and I've used a lot of round watches the Moto 360 second generation is still one of my favorite watches that I've had but when it came to functionality it was definitely limited because those were the awesome round design probably the biggest feature though of the Apple watch series for was the ECG you might have heard it called EKG feature essentially you put your finger over the crown makes a circuit and it can detect things in your heart like regular heart rhythm if you have afib and all kinds of other sort of heart deficiencies that you might have and is somebody whose family has heart disease in its that's a really nice feature to have LTE debuted on the Apple watch series 3 I decided to go for it on the Apple watch series for it's probably my only regret with the series for LTE at least for me has been totally unnecessary actually when I switch phones going from my 10 our review back to my tennis max I forgot to restore the Apple watch so I'd even realized it for almost two days that I was just using LTE on the watch and in all fairness it worked exactly as advertised the calls would come through to the watch in fact battery life was able to get through a full day on LTE something that I couldn't do with the Apple watch Series three so if you're doing a lot of running and you want to have music or you want to have the call forwarding to your watch it's nice to have I probably would have saved the money if I could have gone back and just got me out the watch and it wouldn't have changed my experience at all with it so what's changed since the initial review battery life for me has gotten way better I'm using walkie talkie a lot more than I ever did the raise to talk feature for Siri has been much spottier than it was in the past and I'm generally what I want to use through end up just holding down the crown to activate it if I could go back I would skip LTE and I would save that hundred bucks and keep it my wallet it hasn't been necessary for me but the moral I don't regret purchasing the Apple watch series for and I had an Apple watch series three and generally I say skip a generation but if you're coming from an Apple watch Series three you want the bigger screen you want the new design and despite 20% smaller battery you want better battery life this is one of the few outlet products I say go for the upgrade you are not going to regret it and you're also gonna know exactly what you're getting here the Apple watch age 4 still gets two thumbs up just wish I would have 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