Anyone else wearing a smart watch for fall detection?

crankcall said:
I will be found dead , nine days later like Gene Hackman, wearing my windup analog watch , and hopefully pants .


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Just to help the coroner out, do you wind every morning/evening/every even day? Then they can use how long the watch keeps running to back up to the first missed winding.
 
Someone buy him a self winding watch. :sneaky:
 
GreyGhost said:
It only happened once and it was at the second she found out someone had died so I'm not terribly concerned. I will pass along your concerns and she can raise them with the doc next time she goes though. An ounce of prevention goes a long way.

Sorry to hear about your wife. I'm glad they finally got you a cause. Not knowing is worse.
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Her watch should be able to detect afib as well, lots of ppl have the condition but don't know the symptoms. I bought the Apple watch just after my open heart surgery but i can't wear it when I'm riding, just bothers me around the cuff area of my jacket sleeve.
 
Jayv said:
Her watch should be able to detect afib as well, lots of ppl have the condition but don't know the symptoms. I bought the Apple watch just after my open heart surgery but i can't wear it when I'm riding, just bothers me around the cuff area of my jacket sleeve.
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She doesn't have an apple watch. She had garmin for years, latest is a suunto. I have no idea what rhythm/crash detection her watch has.
 
Blown away by the durability of Apple Watch after 1.5 years at the bottom of a lake
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Still works fine
Summer last year I was swimming at the lake next to our summer cottage in Finland. I wear my Apple Watch 7 everywhere, not bothering to take it off even while swimming, sauna or pretty much every activity.

Imagine the pictoresque lake on a hot summer night under the midnight sun. And then noticing your watch has come off.

The water is murky and you've no idea where or when it had decided to part ways with you.

After crying about it for a day, I bought another similar watch 2nd hand and life went on.

This autumn I visit the summer cottage for one last time to prep it for the upcoming winter. I go to the shore and what do I find? My old watch, looking like it had spent a rough winter under the ice and another summer beneath the surface as well.

Who or rather what surfaced it remains a mystery since we pretty much have the whole lake to ourselves.

I get home and clean the thing up. Not a dent on it. Charging works, and the soon the Apple logo shows up. Touch works, the speaker and mic work.

I check the battery stats after a few charge cycles: 88%, the same number it had before I lost it.

I got to say, I am blown away by how durable the Apple Watch is, and how it holds up underwater for even extended periods of time.

The only thing it didn't keep was the time, ironically. The clock was way off 😆

Happy for the reunion, and having a second identical watch solves the battery life issue for me. When I run out of juice, I always have a spare fully charged watch ready to go.
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adri said:
Does that mean you have to keep bluetooth on on your phone or else it won't do the thing?
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Yes. There are a few expensive ones that are fully functional with a sim built in but the vast majority are bluetooth to the phone and the phone app does all of the communication/sending messages to the watch.
 
Are you talking an Applewatch and an iPhone? ...which battery life?

I run the watch on low power so there is more than enough for a day plus have a long cable for the charger so I don't need to remove the watch when charging. 1 year warranty. I don't call that expensive.

Refurbished Apple Watch SE GPS + Cellular, 40mm Silver Aluminium Case with M/L Storm Blue Sport Band​

A$339.00 Aus

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I don't know about having the sim impacting battery life 🤷‍♂️
Battery replacement....
  • Apple (Recommended for Warranty/Ease):
      • Cost: ~$99 USD (out-of-warranty, but often results in a replacement unit).
      • Process: Apple often provides a refurbished watch with a new battery, preserving your strap and features.
      • AppleCare+: Free if battery health drops below 80%.
    • Third-Party Repair Shops (For Local Service):
        • Cost: Around $149 AUD (starts) at places like Fixspot in Australia.
        • Process: Quick service, often same-day, using high-quality components.
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Cell phone battery life. Bluetooth on seems to really shorten it so I only turn it on when I'm in the car.
 
I took off my watch in 1977 before starting a 5 week motorcycle trip and have not worn one since.
I sleep when I am tired, eat when I am hungry and don't care how many steps I take in a day.
I don't want to miss smelling the roses along the way because I am fixated on my wrist.
Does that make me a bad person?
 
I don't think I could buy a $60 Apple watch.
I had a Christmas present iMac fall off the back of a UPS truck once, before it was delivered.
I believe that my gps on the bike has a fall sensor, as does my Apple phone.
I switched from Samsung to Apple to get the emergency satellite calling.
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