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I want to buy an Apple Watch to track my heart rate and number of laps as I swim, and that's it. The reason I'm choosing the Apple Watch as a fitness tracker is that looking at the graphs on the youtube channel The Quantified Scientist, it looks like it is a lot more accurate than any other wrist-worn device, and a few percentage points off can give a very wrong heart rate reading. My primary phone isn't even an iPhone, I just have one lying around to activate it with. I haven't found any other comparisons that are this in-depth. But it's difficult to understand the software without having one, so I just want to make sure I can swim and look at my wrist and see both my heart rate and number of laps in a 15 yard pool. Also, it looks like every Apple Watch in the last several years has the exact same heart rate sensors so I can just go with the cheapest SE or whatever. Is this correct? Thanks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But you can still see the screen and what it's tracking right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago