Apple watch activity

i just got the apple watch and the main reason i got it was for the fitness and activity features….unfortunately i am disappointed. first of all, i woke up at 7:30 and for the first hour i stood in kitchen making breakfast for my 3 kids and lunches and then stood and waited for them to get on bus. (didn't sit at all for first hour) then i went up stairs got dressed, got my baby dressed and went for a 3 mile very hilly walk. after the walk i went upstairs got dressed, got my baby dressed and went to target where i walked around store for 45 minutes and bagged my food etc. it is now 1:30 and watch is saying i stood 4 minutes out of the 6 hours I've been up. not only did i stand 95 percent of my day its saying i sat idle for 2 hours?
second issue is during my walk i also wore my polar fitness watch with chest strap and it said i burned 375 calories and my watch said i burned 180 calories?? i alos double checked all my stats were correct and went on several webistes to calculate calories burned and they also said close to 400 based on my heart rate. the confusing thing is, the heart rate seemed accurate. anyway, I'm hoping i am doing something wrong because i want to like it but if the activity features aren't going to be accurate its just not worth it.

that is actually funny because i did the same thing….tried staying still, tried walking with arms down.. the funny thing is, the first day i had the watch it didn't register any standing at all (impossible with 3 kids lol) the second day which was yesterday the day strted off bad by not registering but as the day went on it registered my stand for every hour. now today since i have been up it registered all 3 hours so far. on one of the videos i watched, it said that the watch gets
more and more accurate as it gets to know you?? (sounds funny but you never know?) my biggest issue now is the calories they are estimating i am burning. i am actually very impressed with the accurate heart rate, i really wasnt expecting that to be accurate…..but if that is accurate then the calories burned should be too!! ( i need that to be accurate, i base my food intake on that LOL) hopefully i will get more infer after my phone appt with apple today.

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I was asked by friends to give my impressions of owning an Apple Watch. I guess it all comes down to:
Is the Apple watch worth about a dollar a day for the first year, and free thereafter?
I guess that depends on how much value you put on being able to leave your phone on silent, remaining in your pocket most of the day.
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Answering the phone easily when doing something. I am not one to wear a Bluetooth headset around like a Borg, so being able to easily answer when my wife calls as I am fixing lunch for the kid is really convenient.
Having the next thing on my daily calendar right there visible when I look at the Watch. I use the Mickey Mouse watch face normally (hey, I have an 18 month old daughter who loves pushing and seeing Mickey "dancing") and right there on the bottom it tells me the next thing on the list. I don't know how other folks do things on their phones, but I always had trouble sifting through notifications on the phone seeing what was on the agenda for the day. Yeah I could go to the calendar several times during the day on the phone, but it wasn't convenient. It is simple on the Watch seeing what is coming up during the week. And I say "week" because the Watch only shows you what is coming up in the NEAR future. To me that makes sense. Again, it is all about quick information and what works best in a glance. On the Watch it makes sense to quickly see what is coming soon. On the phone it makes sense to meander over months and make full edits in a more convenient manner.
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I have made this same walk four times using the watch and it has been within 6 calories each time… very precise! My walking speed ranged from 4.1 to 4.3 mph on the four walks. I also have made two 6.3 mile hikes (with a 1300’ elevation change) and the watch calculated a total (resting plus active) of 850 and 828 calories (also quite close). The 850 burn was at a faster pace with a 128 bpm heart rate, compared to 115 bpm for the lower calorie burn, so the difference in the calories seems about right.
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