Apple Watch Series 8 [GPS 41 mm] Smart Watch w/Starlight Aluminium Case with Starlight Sport Band. Fitness Tracker, Blood Oxygen & ECG Apps,…

I’ve used Galaxy Gear3 Frontier since 2018, so my experience is more of coming from a different ecosystem to Apple. Here is what I’ve observed.

The Good:
1. Seamless integration and response with iPhone and the app ecosystem
2. Better accuracy for sensors as compared to other counterparts. (But only in the range of 3% to 5%)
3. Efficient User Experience and navigation
4. Charges pretty quickly if you have a fast charger from Apple
5. Not a design fan at first, but it has started to grow on me, so I guess its better
6. Watch face complications for apps is a great addition and provides a better-personalized experience

The Bad:
1. Screen design gets scratched really easily on the curved edges
2. For larger wrist sizes, even the 48mm version looks like a little odd-ball. The size look out of place or maybe a bit too tiny. I have medium-large wrists, if I put on additional weight or start going to gym to buff-up, won’t look as good.
3. The crown dial looks promising but it still not the best way to operate the app. Comparing to the screen dial navigation on Galaxy Wear 3, the crown dial is not even remotely close. Galaxy Wear 3’s dial rotation works better and in a more natural manner.

The worst:
1. Battery backup is pathetic at best. 15 hours max with all the sensors and features on, 24 hours only after you keep the Battery Saving Mode on.
2. Lack of watch faces without downloading separate apps is a huge downside for me personally. You have limited watch faces with the default Watch App. For additional watch faces you are required to download additional apps and customize them which is usually paid on subscription basis.

The watch is really nice and if you have the iPhone MacBook and iPad it’s really mix well with the Apple ecosystem. Apple Watch has really nice apps and the readings are accurate. The one thing that I like into the Apple Watch is the user interface and the way it worked to smoothness is really amazing. The battery is one day but I don’t see any challenge on that because if you are going for bathing or some other task you can charge half or one hour and it will last again one day for you. Comparing the feature it has it required the power must go for it.

I bought it during a sale. Got partially opened main box though! I guess the seller replaced the original combo which probably had a more expensive strap and replaced it with original fluroesastomer red strap. I am assuming that there was no stock of the original combo for mind peace sake. Seals of individual boxes were not open. Now about the watch, I didn’t like the original strap colour though, it’s a more of a dark pink/ peach colour rather than red, so I replaced it with a leather red&black strap. The watch itself is very good and everything works fluidly. I have used noise watches before and this is a very very premium experience and incomparable to any other watches. The only bad thing is that glass is prone to a lot of scratches very easily. If you put a screen protector the touch sensitivity reduces drastically and make it feel like a low quality watch. AOD is very very helpful but I have kept the spO2 monitor off and I get about 1.5 days of real life battery. ECG is over hyped and so is spO2. People looking for a much strong scratch proof watch should go for the ultra or the stainless steel variant, but at this price I think apple ought to have given sapphire glass. Again this is apple trying to push more premium watches. Bottom line, if you need AOD buy series 8, if not, go for SE. If you need scratch prof tough watch, go for ultra. I think stainless steel isn’t worth it unless you get it below 50K. Overall I am happy with the purchase.

The watch gives a nice feel.
Premium looks, battery is very good if kept on low power mode.
Can attend calls and send messages directly from watch..no need to rely on fone…
Good Heart rate results, Steps tracking, etc