I've been rocking out a Casio F-91W (Retails new for $23) for about 3 months now - And all the annoyance I had with with my Apple Watch Ultra (16 hour battery, constant annoyance to upgrade, endless and useless notifications) - is gone. The CR2016 battery last 5+ YEARS , replacements are < $2. Watch has everything I ever cared about - Date, Time, Alarms, Light, Stopwatch, water resistance.

And, I don't think I've once missed having the big annoying clunker of a watch.

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Lio 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the nicest possible way, are you in the wrong thread?

This is about a new folding phone not the watches.

(I am glad to hear you like your watch though. Casio are classic).

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ghshephard 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Correct thread - The Casio F-91W is the "FlipPhone" of watches. Going Retro on all our electronics. Retro Phone, Retro Watch, just walk away from the insane consumerism gadgetitis and find what makes you happy.

	▲	Lio 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Aha! OK I can respect that. There's definitely something satisfying about a product that's both cheap enough that it could be disposable but well designed enough that you actually want to keep it forever. I think that Jobs would approve of the Casio F-91W.

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altmanaltman 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If that's all you cared for, why would you buy an Apple Watch Ultra in the first place? Like a Casio F-91W is a great watch but it is a fundamentally different category than an Apple Watch Ultra even though they're both "watches". It's a bit like saying, " Hey, my calculator has a battery life that lasts years, while my super powerful laptop has a battery life that only lasts 12 hours and has to be updated constantly.

Like yeah.

	▲	ghshephard 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		100% every word you wrote. I watched the Apple video. Thought it would be great to have this amazing GPS capable watch, with a cellular phone (that, I will confess, I did use three or four times and it was really good) - maps, remote finding of my phone, etc... Honestly - if it wasn't for the incessant nagging me to upgrade, letting me know it's going to upgrade, letting me know it had failed to upgrade, and the never ending useless notification that I kept having to edit/unsubscribe/remove stupid apps that I never installed - I probably wouldn't have switched for a short period of time. What I would have never predicted is how getting rid of all that noise has just made me so much happier. Also - didn't realize how much I hate having to charge my watch every 16 hours.
	▲	GlacierFox 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think he's highlighting the all the bullshit the Apple Watch comes with has ended up meaningless crap after initially buying in to the Apple Watch hype for this guy. A laptop is a fundamentally different category than a calculator in both utility and capability.