Greetings mobile accomplishers. I am Deeter Bone. This is the Verge cast and it is our special run of a few episodes that we're doing where we're doing a deep dive into our reviews of the hardware that's coming out in this very very busy fall hardware season with other people outside the

Verge who have reviewed the same devices so this week we are talking about the Apple Watch Series 6 and I'm very excited to say that we have Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal on. She's a friend and she's also a former colleague she used to work here at the Verge.

Now by the time this podcast goes up Joanna's review will have already been up but I'm not sure if mine will be up or not yet because I've run into some production hassles which is what happens during the middle of a pandemic when you're trying to learn a new skill all by yourself.

We actually talk about that a little bit but as I'm working on this review the thing that I'm really struggling with is how much I love this watch right now in this moment because one of the hobbies I'm trying to pick up is writing my bike more often and the Apple Watch has biking directions. It has actually pretty good ecosystem of biking apps now and so more than ever before I am depending on and sort of loving using my Apple Watch as a thing that's good for my fitness.

But at the same time the flagship feature of this Apple Watch Series 6 is the blood oxygen monitor that I think is frankly unreliable and so does Joanna actually we give a lot of talk to that and I don't know she gives me a little bit of help thinking through how to think about the blood oxygen monitor in the context of this thing being a quote on quote wellness device instead of an actual medical device.

Also we talk about putting hot dogs inside folding phones like you do anyway it's a super fun conversation with a very fun person and I think you're going to enjoy it.

Joanna Stern you are the senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal also my friend how you doing.

Good it's good to be here with you Deeter you and your closet me in my office your closet is beautiful.

It's not a beautiful closet but it is big enough to fit me which I which I like actually we're probably going to talk about this later like how we actually put you stuff at home.

I thought you meant like me coming out of the closet.

No no that's not.

We can talk about that.

I feel like you might remember that.

Wow.

This is a personal podcast I thought.

I mean we're supposed to be talking about the Apple Watch Series 6.

Which is the most personal of tech products so we just get so personal.

So by the time this episode goes up your views already up mine maybe posted I'm working on it right now I'm shooting the video this afternoon actually a part of the video high level.

What do you think of the series 6?

Yeah.

I think I said a my review.

It's not because it's a bad product I just I thought the series 5 was great it was good it was a great update from the 4 I thought the 4 actually was like as far as Apple Watches go the best Apple Watch release we've had.

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