"When I sat down to write this review, I wondered if it was too harsh to call this the worst smartwatch ever made. After all, it could at the very least deliver notifications. My wrist then buzzed with the fury of a thousand angry bees as I simultaneously got 40 notifications for emails that were sent four hours earlier"
Incidentally, Windows 10 does the same thing with notification to me. It either thinks, because I have an external monitor attached, I'm presenting; or that a maximised browser window means I'm viewing something in full screen. Once in a while it forgets this and pops up notifications from 3 days before...
I swore off of OnePlus devices when my OnePlus 5 got an OTA update on Christmas eve that softbricked my phone. Had to do a complete wipe on it since it was encrypted. I think they either pulled the update later or I was in some early rollout group.
These days I actually have an iPhone because I wanted a smartwatch for activity tracking and all Android ones seemed like shit.
I use a Samsung galaxy watch, and have never had any issues with it. I record my workouts, but I'm not super into looking at graphs or anything. I'm assuming you looked at it, so what did you think was inadequate, out of curiousity?
It's been seven or so years, so the memory is fuzzy, and the Samsung wasn't nearly as bad as the OnePlus is reported to be. But there were definitely "back of the box" features that that just plain didn't work, and other features that were buggy enough that the feature should not have been included. For instance, it would just stop tracking a workout because I stopped at a stoplight on my bicycle ride to work. "Looks like your workout's done! Good job!"
The poor experience was a major contributor to me swearing off Samsung devices specifically, and avoiding Android in general. Back to the iPhone for me since.
Interesting, that stuff must have been fixed before I got it. Apple definitely is the best at releasing things the closest the being a finished product
Oh, that device I mentioned was like seven years ago. I'm sure that at least the most glaring issues have been fixed since.
As for Apple, fanboy or not, I didn't buy an Apple Watch until the fourth one came out. Not waterproof? No GPS? Get outta here with your fashion watch.
To be fair, I've also had Apple push an OTA that softbricked my iPhone 7 Plus a few years back, and had to reset it in the same way. I learned the hard way that day to do a local backup before installing any OS updates. This is probably wise, no matter who made it or what software it runs.
I've had an iPhone 11 for about 1.5 years now and I've yet to have an unsuccessful update on it. I think I'd had the OnePlus 5 for about half a year when I got the softbrick. So far Apple is leading the reliability race by far for me.
They don't have to happen often. You only have to restore your Android phone once during the Christmas party so you have GPS to drive back home afterwards to be burned for life.
I've owned both phones for long enough to have minor and major updates happen. One has burned me, one hasn't. That's my experience and my confidence levels in both of them are based on that.
I totally understand, that sucks a lot. But it is just one data point. Also small nitpick but you say "Android phone" but it was probably an issue just with OnePlus and you would have been fine if you had a Pixel.
edit: I don't want to sound like I'm blaming you for buying a OnePlus btw (I had one myself)
The nice thing about Android these days is that without much effort you can be in a place where you can drop your phone in the sea and not lose any data (and I say this from experience). I pay for GDrive space and at worst I'll lose photos I've taken that day - other app data is automatically backed up with little to no effort on my part. Signal unfortunately doesn't do this by default and requires some manual setup of syncing to make work.
I assume Apple devices are the same, although I believe that more of it is turned off by default for privacy reasons?
I'm still bummed that I missed out on Pebbles, especially as they just got eaten up by bigger fish. Would have been easier to swallow if they would have failed on the market or something, but afaik they were plenty successful by all metrics
I still miss my Pebble 1 but my Amazfit Bip fills the void a bit. It's got amazing battery life and a pretty good screen. I really miss the epaper display of the Pebble though. I don't exactly know why either.
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These days I actually have an iPhone because I wanted a smartwatch for activity tracking and all Android ones seemed like shit.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/samsung-gear-fit-health...
It's been seven or so years, so the memory is fuzzy, and the Samsung wasn't nearly as bad as the OnePlus is reported to be. But there were definitely "back of the box" features that that just plain didn't work, and other features that were buggy enough that the feature should not have been included. For instance, it would just stop tracking a workout because I stopped at a stoplight on my bicycle ride to work. "Looks like your workout's done! Good job!"
The poor experience was a major contributor to me swearing off Samsung devices specifically, and avoiding Android in general. Back to the iPhone for me since.
As for Apple, fanboy or not, I didn't buy an Apple Watch until the fourth one came out. Not waterproof? No GPS? Get outta here with your fashion watch.
I've owned both phones for long enough to have minor and major updates happen. One has burned me, one hasn't. That's my experience and my confidence levels in both of them are based on that.
edit: I don't want to sound like I'm blaming you for buying a OnePlus btw (I had one myself)
I assume Apple devices are the same, although I believe that more of it is turned off by default for privacy reasons?
Every smartwatch I've tried in the years since the buy-out just reminds me how much I miss my Pebbles.