Galaxy Watch5 , which one ?

[Pupusik]

Hi all, looking at getting my 1st smart watch.

I have the S22 Ultra phone.

I am looking at the Watch5 Pro 45mm

I've done the comaprison online and like the features, especially the battery.

App related questions:

I use Google Gmail as my goto email app, will I be able to read my emails ?

My goto messenger app is Whatsapp, will I be able to read my msgs

Any comments or insight is greatly appriciated. 

Regards

[KOTS21]

I don't know about WhatsApp but it works well with Gmail and the battery life for me it's 3 days with AOD, all notifications and sensors.

[Deeezzyyy]

Lucky you. I haven't been able to fix my issue yet 😭

But I've noticed that if I charge with the original charger, I get longer battery life.

I am now at 3 days, no AOD, only stress sensor and all notifications.

[KOTS21]

I've never used the charger I have the Samsung triple wireless charger but at least you're getting better battery life. Are you using tilt to wake?

[Deeezzyyy]

Yeah, tilt to wake.

I used to use some 3rd party amazon chargers I had bought for my old watch 4 classic.

I think those messed up the battery a bit

[KOTS21]

Tilt to wake kills it I think even more then AOD

[Deeezzyyy]

No way... really?

[KOTS21]

I tried both and you don't realize that with every movement it turns on at what ever brightness you have it at but with AOD the watch face I use has very little brightness and doesn't use that much power. Try it I've found some nice free watch faces on facer.

[Deeezzyyy]

I'll have to switch to a watchface that doesn't use a lot of pixels with always on then cause I use the info board and the always on basically doesn't look like the watch face is even off.

[Deeezzyyy]

So I actually tried to turn off tilt to wake and no AOD altogether.

So I can only turn on my screen by pressing a button.

I still lost over 30% battery in 1 day.

I don't know if I need to give it a bit more time to adjust? But yeah... doesn't look like it's changing much right now 😑