hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and many of you have been asking for a
long-term review of my series for Apple watch and as recent as a previous video
where I did the iPhone 11 Pro max six months later people were asking again
for a long-term review of this series for watch now I don't use the series 5
watch I did review it I had the titanium version I decided that wasn't worth
keeping because I prefer this one for a couple of reasons one of them is the
series 4 doesn't have an always-on display and the always-on display sounds
nice but it drains so much battery that it rarely got me through a day or maybe
it would get me through a day on this I easily get through a day and a half or
two days without a problem and that's because the display is not on all the
time and I don't usually look at the display when it's down so you have to
pick it up turn the display on then it's on and I just find that that seems to be
the better way for me also the series 5 the only other advantage of ads is a
compass and that's built into the iPhone should I ever need a compass aside from
GPS it's in the iPhone so I don't really need it I don't separate the two enough
to justify that so I kept the series 4 and this is my main watch now Apple does
not sell the series for Apple watch they sell a refurbished version or you can
buy it on places like Amazon and things like that and this is still around five
hundred and $89 refurbished for the stainless steel and sapphire version
that's what this one is and it's pretty heavy because it's steel all the way
around and sapphire on the display it makes it a little bit more expensive and
it's also the cellular version so the cellular version is actually something I
don't have activated so I probably should have just bought the Wi-Fi
version but I don't use the cellular part I don't find it worth paying an
extra $10 a month or so for something I don't really use so this is what I've
been using lately and let me unlock it for you here now my series for Apple
watch has held up incredibly well it's stainless steel like I mentioned so I
have no scuffs or scratches on it now if I had the regular stainless steel I had
the first generation Apple watch in stainless steel that had scuffs and
scratches all over the aluminum frame because this is the anodized black
aluminum or black stainless steel whatever the coating is on it rather
it's held up really I don't have any scratches on it and the
display has zero scratches on it because it's sapphire so the Sapphire display
may not live up to some people's standards of sapphire but it's held up
well enough to prevent any scratches whatsoever and it's been bumped against
everything from brick walls to normal door jams that are steel and really the
only thing that will scratch sapphire is either sapphire or diamond so something
on that level of hardness so this is held up incredibly well now battery life
after a year and a half is pretty much the same now there's no way to measure
battery health but I took this off the charger sometime this morning I'm at 86%
I can easily get through a couple days with this usually with no problem with
the exception of sometimes when it's using the decibel meter a lot so I have
that on the display to show me the actual volume in the room you can see
it's measuring how many decibels I'm speaking at and it's somewhere around 60
to 70 and this is always running so if I wanted to conserve battery I could do
that by switching to a different face which isn't a problem to switch the one
that's not using that all the time and you'll conserve some power so if that's
ever a concern I can switch but usually it gets me through at least a day and a
half no problem whatsoever and then I just continue using it and one of the
nice things about Apple watch is with even watch OS 6.2 the latest version at
least that's on this it's still super fast just like the day I got it it's
fast everything loads quickly and if I want to go into heart or ECG it just
opens right up you'll see it's measuring it's not going to measure accurately
because it's on my finger but you've got all of those different options and of
course things like camera I can open this up it opens on my iPhone over here
so if I want to take a remote picture I can do that just hit the button and take
a picture and it's got that option and everything just works really fast
without a problem so in general this is still just as fast as a series five
Apple watch for the most part there's not really any differences so I would
highly recommend one if you can find one for a reasonable price now of course you
can get a series 5 for basically this price of the stainless steel series 4 so
it really just depends on what you want to do but as far as the battery lasting
over time well if it gets really bad I could bring it to Apple but
it still lasts without a problem a year and a half later and I would expect the
battery to continue to last maybe another couple of years or a year or
more without degrading significantly to the point where it needs to be replaced
now as far as using it for workouts and music well I don't really use it for any
of those things so I do use it for activities and notifications in fact
notifications is probably what I use it for the most but you can see here's
monthly challenges and things and April challenge I earned that in 2018 so I
don't use this a whole lot I don't keep track of rings or anything like that
I use it more for notifications when I'm talking to people either on Twitter or
on YouTube and things like that and then I use it for weather and the UV index I
really don't use it for anything else other than for reminders and to just
notify me of things so the activity rings I definitely should use more and
probably will in the future but right now I don't use it a ton but I should
give it more of a chance as far as that goes but in general I think it's super
fast it's great for whatever you need and maybe I should try some of the
features more but I find my phone is what I use primarily and this is
secondary so I know some people have it the other way around it just depends on
what you do now the other thing is it has held up well underwater I've gone
swimming with it from time to time and it just works fine
I've had no problems with it whatsoever you can shower with these they're
waterproof unlike the iPhone that's water-resistant these you can take in
the water all the time all of the buttons work fine the microphones the
speakers they're all working just like you would expect and all of the sensors
and everything else I've had no problems with it and I wear it just about every
day occasionally maybe on the weekends I won't but every day when I'm doing
videos you often see me wearing this watch and that's what I use that's it
for my series for Apple watch if you'd like to know anything more about it or
there's something I didn't answer let me know in the comments below and I'll try
to answer it and also if you'd like to get your hands on one of these
watchbands I'll link them in the description below so you can check them
out for yourself and hopefully I can find a good price on one of these
watches for you as well but I'll link all of that in the description and if
you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper on the iPhone I'll link that
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Aaron I'll see you next time