Deposited my Apple Watch 4 to a river bottom while cliff jumping last week. Have a couple of questions. Do you use the Ultra for fitness/to track workouts? Would you find the size too big for those purposes? What are your pros & cons?
Yes, I’m tracking fitness/closing my rings everyday. Wife and I usually walk 3 miles a day and then I’ll do a half hour Fitness+ workout as well.
Pros: It is made from titanium. It is an indestructible tank that is also, being titanium, impervious to salt water. Swam in the ocean with it this week, and was in a saltwater pool six days & nights while on vacation. It has a full dive computer built in that measures water temp and depth, functional to 40 meters (130 feet). It further has both L1 and L5 band GPS, so it has state of the art GPS tracking that can pinpoint to which side of a street you’re walking on. At any given time you can probably get signals from five or six satellites between the two bands, which means the GPS is actually functional in a concrete canyon such as for running in New York or Chicago. I’ve also hiked about 5.5 miles in Hocking Hills/Old Mans Cave area, half of that down in the gorge, and had perfect GPS, lat/long, and elevation readings. Has a fully functional magnetic compass with waypoint marking, so if you’re lost it can guide back over your footsteps. That feature has a learning curve, but it’s supercool (we hike a lot).
The battery life will easily last 48 hours. Music sync is so fast it’s finally usable. With an active esim/phone number you can stream from Apple Music on a run just like you’re accustomed to with a phone.
And the best feature, it’s made from titanium. Did I already mention that?
The other day I was loading a case of water into the bottom of the shopping cart when my distracted wife push the cart forward into me. I felt the Ultra catch the undercarriage of the cart and heard a crunch of grinding metal.
Pulled my arm out and saw a mangled mess on the side of the watch. Realized it wasn’t even scratched, rather it had filed steel shavings right off the bottom of the cart. Brushed em off and the watch doesn’t show any cosmetic damage at all. An aluminum or stainless steel Apple Watch would not have been unscathed.
Cons: It costs $800, so it’s double the price of any other Apple Watch. Also, if you’re careless, you could very likely scratch your own car with the corners of the Watch face on accident.
