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2023/07/17#p1
My Skagen Falster 3 watch has been dying a slow, painful death. Refusing to turn on without holding all three buttons for 30 seconds; grinding to a virtual halt; the battery lasting half a day at most.
The writing has been on the wall for a while.
Being an older 5th gen device it also doesn't support Wear OS 3 so can't be updated.
Rather than opt for a new 6th gen Wear OS device I have been thinking about a more proprietary system. So, for my birthday today I got an Amazfit GTR 2.
With up to 14 days battery life it's far more flexible than having to charge the Skagen every day which means I can monitor sleep without having to worry about it dying or forgetting to put it on charge in the morning.
Okay, so I can't install a bunch of apps on it but I never really did with the Skagen. The Amazfit looks to do everything I need out of the box.
Now I just have to decide which watch face I want to use 😆
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Beautiful looking watch, Colin! I thought you'd gone analog for a sec!
I like the face in the picture above.
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