Watch GR Backtrack (2016)

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Watch GR Backtrack (2016)

Apple Watch Ultra is powered by watchOS 9, which includes new advanced running metrics to measure performance, like Stride Length, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation, and Running Power. New Workout Views, such as Segments, Splits, and Elevation, provide important metrics at just a glance, and thanks to the larger display, Apple Watch Ultra is the only Apple Watch that can show six metrics at once. Users can take their training to the next level with features such as Heart Rate Zones, Custom Workouts, Pacer, and, coming later this year, Race Route. For triathlons, duathlons, or activities with any sequence of swimming, biking, or running, the new Multisport workout includes autodetection to easily switch between workouts. Apple Watch Ultra has enough battery life for most users to complete a long-course triathlon, consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and full marathon at 26.2 miles.

With the bigger, brighter display and rugged design, Apple Watch Ultra is the perfect technical tool for adventurers and explorers in a range of environments, from the every day to the extreme. The completely redesigned Compass app in watchOS 9 surfaces more in-depth information and three distinct views. The app displays a new hybrid view that simultaneously shows both an analog compass dial and a digital view. Turning the Digital Crown reveals an additional view that includes latitude, longitude, elevation, and incline, as well as an orienteering view showing Compass Waypoints and Backtrack.

The defining mechanic of time reversal in Life is Strange exemplifies a queer temporality, one that recognizes failure, grows past it in some ways and accepts it in others--sometimes fatalistically. The game unwinds normative, profitable styles of play through its mechanics: there is comparatively little to be gained from training oneself in proficiency at this game rather than, say, League of Legends (2009). And while even the most lumbering game can nonetheless enjoy a community of dedicated and proficient players, including speedrunners, there is no financial incentive to cultivate a rapid twitch response, or memorize frame data, or optimize routes or map decision trees for speedier responses to the in-game events of Life is Strange. Moreover, the game does not lend itself to spectacle or replayability the way games most profitable for live-streaming tend to. By encouraging backtracking, rewinding and careful decisions rather than linearity and twitch reflexes, the game queers normative temporal practices in gaming.

[7] Of course, people can and do get paid for a surprising variety of things through Twitch subscriptions and YouTube ad revenue. That said, there is no comparison between the profitability of high-performance play and that of the kinds of low-stakes backtracking described above.

Separately, how does one pair a heart rate monitor to the watch and then have the monitor HR data broadcast over the watch while completing a run and also have that HR data be the data that Strava picks up? This question is inherently tied to my first question so I guess if there an answer / solution to the first question, this question is irrelevant.

I have been reading your comments here for a long time as you look a very reasonable user that makes very good points on all discussions you take part in, so I eagerly expect your opinions on how good this watch with a third party app is for activities linked to routable maps.

I am only asking about your concerns of lock in with an Apple Watch and iPhone, not about other Apple products. What do you think Apple does for an Apple Watch/iPhone combination that you feel would prevent you from leaving for an Android phone and watch pair down the road?

2. Is there a better way to charge the AW than by letting it sit on a charger. I would like something that would grab the watch when I am charging it in the car. Right now it often falls off the charger.

I agree that Apple or any other smart watch maker will not destroy Garmin. But the profit of both hardware production and software development is hugely linked to volume. Even if a small percentage of Garmins premium clock users move to Apple Watch it is going to hurt Garmin,

A few things I wondered about before I get the watch. One, does the Ultra have something like a jacket mode? When I owned previous Apple Watches I always had to manually disable wrist detection to get the watch to stop locking itself if I wore it over top of a jacket. I also remember the watch occasionally having a problem with disabling a lock code or turning off wrist detection if you had a card loaded into the wallet app. In order to use Apple Pay you would always need to have a 4 digit lock code otherwise it would disable Apple Pay. I also wanted your preliminary thoughts on the raw titanium and if you are seeing any stretches that easily happen because of the raw titanium casing. Thanks as always for your review!

RE: GPS accuracy. If I understand this article correctly not all GPS satellites are L5 ready. So I assume L5 availability (and watch accuracy) would differ depending on what is above you head at any particular time of day? link to zdnet.com

My workflow is creating routes in komoot, which automatically syncs to garmin connect, which I can sync to my fenix watch. Finished activities then get automatically synced to Strava and imported in some other apps like statshunters.If I can find a good way to mimic that workflow I might get an Ultra.

a) It is definitely possible to use two watches. I currently have a S7 for daily wear and an old SE for sleeping (and letting my S7 charge). Switching between them is seamless and automatic; literallly all you do is take one off and put the other on (and unlock it). But the SE has no cellular.

EKG matched my watch (Sinus Rythm/Bradycardia). None of the cardiac enzyme markers, but exercise related chest pain calls for admission, monitoring and a stress test in the morning. My watch is at 36%, so it would be nice if my watch had more battery so it would for sure make it through the night.

Congratulations for your review!I think you are totally right on the navigation feature. Creating a route, uploading it on the watch and havingthe device indicating on preloaded topo maps that you are on the path (i do not speak about turn-by-turn navigation) is absolutely a must.I could not imagine doing an extreme mountain trekking in winter without such a featurebecause when the weather suddenly changes and when the wind starts to become very strong and snowing at 3000 meters or more, you even see nothing around you in a perimeter of 10 meters!. And youloose also the sense of direction/orientation.It is so reassuring/comfortable when a watch keeps watching your path and indicates if you are on the pathand in the right direction too, with all the metrics delivered in real time. I think basic topo maps preloaded are alsonecessary, they do not need to be detailed with the name of the road etc., but we need to see the trekkingpaths and where we are to avoid confusion deciding the path we need to choose (intersections).We need also to have an exact elevation profile (and all the metrics) so we can manage the effort to arrive at destination.I speak about my experience and how a manage this stuff when i go trekking in wild environments.I prepare them, always, no improvisations! I never go out and randomly go somewhere and then, when I am lost, use the backtrack feature.We need also to inverse the route. Telling the watch that from now we go back on the same route andall the metrics correctly recalculated based on the route we have store in the watch.Of course, we have Apps which have such a feature, but I think too, this one must be implementedin the watch by default and optimized to save precious battery live, like the siren, the alarms when we fall etc..So, I hope Apple will implement this very soon because it will be the only watchwhich will cover a 360 degrees vision based on a safety considering the ability to have LTE, Phone, Alarm, Siren etc..Sure, some watch has weeks of autonomy or monthsbut regarding the added value based on safety features, I personally prefer to take eventually an additional light battery pack to have the bestreliable, rugged device on which I can totally rely (do not reboot as some watch) when I gotrekking in what could be a very, very hostile environments.So yes, I agree, and again hope Apple will implement this very soon.

FWIW, watchOS 9 introduced a bug in Pool Swim workouts. The watch only accumulates distance when you turn in the pool, so the distance reported will always be one length short. E.g. if I swim 10 lengths, I will only make 9 turns, so the watch reports a total distance of, e.g. 225 yards. My total distance is, of course, 250 yards. Interestingly, if I set a distance goal of 250 yards, the watch correctly generates the alert that congratulates me for completing my goal. But, when I look at the workout afterwards, the distance is still 25 yards short.

I have another question regarding your 14 hours test run. Was the Apple Watch Ultra connected to your iPhone during therun or did you used only the Watch including the built-in GPS, Barometer etc. ?If the watch was NOT connected via BLE to your iPhone, the LTE on the watch activated or in standby?

As of the S8, SE2 and Ultra, they will never tether to the phone for GPS, even if they are within BT range. It should have been this way all along and this change should have been applied to older watches too. 041b061a72