Apple Watch Series 2 In 2021! (Still Worth It?) (Review) By Simple Alpaca

So, this is actually going to be the first Apple Watch, video that I'm going to be doing this year, believe it or not, and we're going to be talking about the Apple Watch Series 2 and seeing how it holds up in 2021. Now I will find the cheapest ones of these watches and leave them linked down in the description below you can get them from there and help support the channel at the same time. Now, I'm not really to sure where to start with this watch, because in my opinion, this is still a killer watch in so many areas. I don't necessarily think it's the best Apple Watch ever made, but it's a very good Apple Watch for a lot of people out there. Now there are some highs about this watch. There are some lows about this watch, but I think for a majority of people out there, if you're somebody who wants to get an Apple Watch to use as a main device- and you don't really care about having the most insane features, you want to check the things with your health.

You want to check your steps. You want to check notifications, calls messages, snap chats, all that stuff you'll be able to do it on an Apple Watch Series too. I want to get that out of the way. This Apple Watch is not an archaic machine, even though it came out in 2016 almost five years ago. It doesn't really perform or feel like a five-year-old watch in my opinion now on my main day-to-day watch that I use on a daily basis, it's actually an Apple Watch Series 4, and before that I used the Apple Watch Series 2.

As my main Apple Watch, and I enjoyed it, you know going from a series 2 to a series 4. There was a pretty big difference, but I didn't feel that difference. If I didn't go to the series 4. , you know what I mean if I wasn't comparing them side by side, I don't think I would notice that big of a difference and for how much the Apple Watch Series twos are right. Now, it's really not that big of a know deal for some things, because it's justifiable in the price tag.

Now again, there are two different models of this device: the 38 millimeter and then the 42 millimeter, you know, watches. I will tell you I do like having the bigger watch sizes. I've had. You know smaller watch variants before the series three I had been a smaller one. I think the original Apple Watch.

I had one that was 38 millimeters as well, but I think this one, you know the 42 one is probably the one I would recommend you know the majority of people to use, but I think you know the other one is perfectly fine too. You have that OLED panel on the front, and I love it. I think these you know screens are very good and for the know most part, you don't really care the resolution of the panel on your watch or anything. You just want to look at it. Look away.

It's not like it's a phone where you're using it all the time. This type of watch you're just looking at like once or twice in a day, maybe like once or twice in an hour, and then you're just moving on you don't really care about it too much and with an app watch series 2, you still have a lot of different capability when it comes down to the durability of it. On my series, two, I didn't have a case on it for a long time. I think I had it like the first week, and then I took it off, and then I just ended up rocking without a case just like how I do it on my series. Four and I bashed this thing around, like crazy, I've dropped it I've put in so much water.

It still worked perfectly fine. I still have it and I don't use it anymore, but it still works perfectly fine, so that ended of itself is another. Huge reason why the Apple Watch Series 2 is still a perfect watch. It's very, very durable, and I haven't really had too many problems with it when it came down to that now. I think one of maybe the bigger problems of the Apple Watch Series 2 is the fact that it doesn't have any more software updates.

I think it's still getting like the supplemental security updates, but it did not get watchOS, 7, and I'll definitely tell you that is kind of a problem. Furthermore, I wish it did get the next version of watch OS. But the very interesting thing about these watches is in my experience. Watch OS updates aren't really like the craziest things ever like yeah there's some cool features added here and there, but it's really not that big of a deal, whether you're stuck on a watch OS one or you're on watch west, seven you're pretty much still going to be doing the same basic tasks on your watch unless you're like a power user on your Apple Watch, for example, I had the Apple Watch Series zero, which was like the first Apple Watch that ever came out, and that thing I don't know what version it stopped at. I think maybe watch os4 or something, and I was using that watch until like 2018 or something like that or maybe even 2019.

I was using that same watch for many years, and it was extremely slow, but I just checked it for some very basic things and that's all I really had to do with it. So I think you know just being a year or two or three behind it and watch OS updates, isn't really that big of a deal. So if you don't want to pick up the Apple Watch Series 2 because of the software, then so be it. But for me personally, I would not really look at you know the watchOS update or thinking this thing is outdated, just because the software inside it. I think this thing for with the watch OS 6, is still perfectly fine for the most part and honestly, day-to-day tasks on an Apple Watch.

Series too, in my experience, was perfectly fine, and I'll kind of break down some things that I did on my Apple Watch Series 2 when I was using it like not even a year ago and basically, maybe you'll fit into the same category. So, typically, what I would do and the most important thing that I check on my watch are just like the steps. You know that's kind of the reoccurring thing that I check on all the time, because you don't know if you're getting phone calls or messages. So sometimes my phone is completely dry, and I don't even check it on my watch because nobody's calling me or texting me, but the steps are something that's always there. So what I do I lift my watch.

I check the steps. Am I good great? Am I not okay? Whatever one thing about the Apple Watch Series 2, that's very important for me to say, is that the steps on the series 2 take a little more time to kind of you know refresh so my series 4, which this one's not even that fast, but it is faster than my series two. I would have to like open up the step. Zap thing that you know the rings, and it would take like probably like, let's say, 10 or maybe like seven seconds for it to refresh on my Apple Watch Series four. It does only take like three and a half seconds or something like that, so it takes like half the time.

So that was one area where I started to see the performance kind of being a little slower. Another thing, sometimes, if you know I had a notification or something, and I wanted to respond back there were times when you know the notification would just go away completely. If I wanted to text somebody back, you know it would just go away completely, which is very annoying, but on top of that, whenever I wanted to write somebody back on my Apple Watch and I wanted to go, and actually you know, write out a message on the little gesture thing. Sometimes that would be so faulty, and it just would crash it wouldn't work half the time and things like that did bother me a lot, but that didn't really happen that often like that happened, maybe like once a week, maybe like twice a month like not, it didn't happen that often it was a very, very like once in between, because most of the time you have your phone next to you that you're going to go ahead and text people from anyway. So that really wasn't that big of a deal to me either, but it just did seem a little slower once I bought the Apple Watch Series 4, and I ended up using it.

I initially bought the series 4 just to make a video about and then resell it or something, but I ended up just like not feeling like reselling anything anymore. So then I just kind of kept it and I eventually switched to it, and that was a pretty big difference and that's when I started to see where the Apple Watch Series 2 performance wise was a little slower in, but I will tell you the s2 chipset, that's inside the Apple Watch Series.2 is really not that bad, like it's actually a pretty decent chipset, it's kind of like the Apple A10 chip. In a way, you know like it's a kind of old chipset, but it's not really that bad and the apple series 2 and the Apple Watch and the iPhone 7 with the a10 chip actually came out the same year, and I don't think it's really that much of a coincidence. To be honest, so that's another pretty big deal about the Apple Watch Series 2. , it's not a slow device, but it can give you some glitch to itchiness here and there, but I think it's totally okay, because this is a five-year-old Apple Watch, it's kind of expected, as at this point now to kind of move away from that and go into the battery life segment.

I don't even think the battery life on this device was that bad either. Now I was getting probably like a day and a half battery life, which typically, I would have expected more apple, just kind of market. I guess this thing being like 18 hours battery life, so I was getting about like a day and a half. If I ended the day, it would probably be around like 20, so I'd probably get like not even a day out for the next day, and it would just go into that. Little like you know, power saving mode, and it wouldn't even show me any notifications or anything just that.

You know random like green time on my watch, and it was very annoying, but with my Apple Watch Series 4 I haven't experienced that yet, which is perfect, so you're definitely going to be getting better battery life on the other apple watches. You know the newer ones and I think, that's probably where you're going to find the biggest problem with the Apple Watch Series 2. You're, going to have some issues when it comes down to the battery life. It's not going to be a crazy deal, but it is something you're probably going to. Could you know probably be annoyed by sometimes so in terms of that that pretty much covers it up and to kind of answer the question: should you go and buy an Apple Watch Series 2 in 2021? Well, this is what I'll tell you.

I think, if you don't have any apple watches right now, getting an Apple Watch Series 2 is totally fine for the most part. I think it's totally an okay watch like if I were to rate it on the one side, watt skill. Furthermore, I would easily rate it like a 7 out of 10. You know there are some areas which are really annoying, but I think the biggest issue that I had initially been the software, the fact that it wasn't getting any more software updates. That was something that did rub me the wrong way, I'm not too sure if you feel the same way- maybe not, but I totally felt like you know, because this thing wasn't getting any more software updates.

That was something that really annoyed me, but what I will tell you, though, is that it's really not that big of a deal, as I stated before, watch OS updates kind of are a little different from iOS and android, and they do get some features here and there, but it's kind of like two main features and then like one or two or three or ten, like other minor features, but it's like features you're, not really going to use where in iOS it's like cool features all around and security and all that stuff. But with your watch, it's just something: you're, checking notifications on checking stuff on and moving on, and I feel like with the app watch series 2. This is a perfect example of a watch that could be a watch just to get you into the Apple Watch lifecycle if you're somebody who doesn't use apple watches at all, if you're somebody who doesn't even know anything about apple watches, but you want to somehow get into it. This is a perfect watch to get into it. In my opinion, that's a very, very easy thing to do, because it doesn't cost a lot of money.

It works on pretty much all apple watches out there or any iPhones or androids, and it's just you know. Even if you break it, it's not a big deal. If you get an Apple Watch Series 6, I think that's also a perfect idea or the apple HSE, but I honestly think an Apple Watch Series 2 is perfectly fine to pick up my only complaints, maybe besides the software, which isn't even really that big of a complaint, maybe is the battery life, but as long as you charge it every day or every other day, you're going to be perfectly fine. So in terms of that that pretty much covers it up, like I said before, if you want to pick one up, links will be down in the description you can get them from there and help support the channel at the same time, but that's really pretty much it if you guys have any other questions or anything. Let me know in the comment section as well hit the like button, not me so much, but definitely hit that subscribe button, every single subscriber that we get really discount.

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