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This might be my first Apple Watch. The screen area is a significant improvement but lets see if the other improvements are true. It would be great to use the LTE on an LTE Apple watch in another country.
 
How many things need Hey Siri lol. Now when i say it. my mac and iphone go off. now my watch and mac and iphone.
 
That Watch face looks way too busy. What are you supposed to be glancing at? I wouldn’t even know what to look at there’s just too much noise there. At least make it look nice, I don’t understand anyone saying how it does. Just a cluster of information slapped on the front with no thought put behind it. Then again that’s what I’ve been saying to myself about all of Apples software descions as of late.
 
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I may try Series 4. However, it better perform better than the Series 3 models I've tried. Too often they would not reconnect after being out of range from my X which led to constant reboots.
 
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I like how the complications can show more info....look at the weather with hi-low also. Very nice.
I hope that this capability extends to standard faces as well with the physical display size being larger. I doubt I'd want to run this cluttered face very often.
 
"Accidentally" seems to be a trend with the impending releases. Perhaps accidently like Janet Jackson and "nipplegate"?
 
9 complications, no? 4 in corners, 4 in middle, and 1 (the next calendar event) in the clock’s circle.

Was thinking the same, but maybe the one in the clock’s circle is linked to the top one in the middle. For example if you replace calendar in the middle with music, it would show you the now playing song in the clock‘s circle. Or the weather condition if you put temperature in the middle etc.
 
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That Watch face looks way too busy. What are you supppsed to be glancing at? At least make it look nice, I don’t understand anyone saying how it does. Just a cluster of information slapped on the front with no thought out behind it. Then again that’s what I’ve been to myself about all of Apples software descions as of late.

You can make the watch face look like whatever you want
 
Ok, so is it just me, or does the side button look more recessed? Like maybe it's not a physical button any more? There were rumors about that. It just doesn't seem to protrude as much, but perhaps this photo is taken at a weird angle. Looking at my Series 0 right now I have to rotate it seemingly further than the orientation in this photo before the cutout on the far side becomes visible, but maybe that has been altered between my Series 0 and this new model?
 
My favorite part is that the red dot has been reduced to a thin red circle! Wish they could get rid of it entirely, but this is much better than leaving it the way that it was.

That watch face is way too cluttered. I mean, it’s kinda nice to have an option for an information dense display, and it makes sense if the new display face is bigger that they could pack more in. But things that look like this are supposedly the reason that Apple hasn’t allowed third party developers to design custom watch faces—it makes the watch look bad. That being said, they did about the best job you could possibly do when it comes to fitting that many complications on the display at once. I didn't even notice the calendar event text until I had looked at it for full minute.

I thought it was interesting that the original story on 9to5Mac didn't say anything about the rose gold stainless steel enclosure.

That ("That watch face is way too cluttered.") is, I'm sorry, a very silly complaint. Apple offers dozens of watch faces, and on each one you can leave complication slots blank if you want to.

They're obviously showing off this one for people (like myself...) who find our watches so useful we wish we could pack even more info on a single face. But nothing forces you to use this style of info-dense face.
I just hope they have something more or less equivalent but with digital time.

As for the actual watch face note two interesting things, the UVI and the temperature. Of course those could be obtained from a weather service, but giving them prominence on the "demo" face (note that "other weather" like rain is not being displayed) may mean that the watch has two things some of us have asked for for a while --- a local temperature sensor and something that's tracking cumulative UV exposure.
 
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