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Apple Accidentally Leaks Images of Upcoming Apple Watch Series 4 Models With Larger Displays

Lately I’m thinking Apple intentionally leaks their releases just before announcing products just to limit disappointment coming from wild speculation. On the same day the new iPhones are leaked and the redesign of Apple Watch (after the invitation design led to speculation about a round watch) is leaked? And this is becoming a pattern. If you follow the rumours, while there is nothing available all year you know exactly what will be announced at least a week before.
 
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It's an ugly UI on the watch that's for sure. It looks messy, cluttered and outright amateur. So many colours. Tha's colour theory out of the window.. I don't believe for a second this was a mistake. After piping on for years about tightening security to stop leaks. And then go and ever so publicly leak their own official imagery. What a shame - Apple seem to have really lost their lead on design and innovating beautiful products. No new form factor for the phone in years. I guess it's reached a point of being the perfect ergonomic device - with nowhere else to go.
 
ActionableMango said:
What? I have no idea what you are saying.

The Casio Databank is a source that verifies that the hole on the side of the Apple Watch 4 is not a mic, but is instead a hard reset button?
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Casio Databank is/was a watch. It had a hard reset button. Apple watch is a watch with a hole on the side. = reset hole

logic!
 
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daveedjackson said:
It's an ugly UI on the watch that's for sure. It looks messy, cluttered and outright amateur. So many colours. Tha's colour theory out of the window.. I don't believe for a second this was a mistake. After piping on for years about tightening security to stop leaks. And then go and ever so publicly leak their own official imagery. What a shame - Apple seem to have really lost their lead on design and innovating beautiful products. No new form factor for the phone in years. I guess it's reached a point of being the perfect ergonomic device - with nowhere else to go.
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You do realize this would be to advertise the most the watch could do... they still have faces that display the time and the time only... Your options are between this and 9:45... up to you
 
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haqsha23 said:
Quick question: What is the benefit of having an Apple watch? Why is everyone so excited about these new changes? I had a series 1 that i got for free when i signed up for a new checking account. I sold it after a month since i used it for about 2 days then never put it back on. Screen wasn't that responsive, really small (i had the bigger size), and didn't really help with anything. Replying to messages was extremely limited and didn't work well.

The only thing that i think is a great thing is LTE. If I can leave my phone in the car when i go to the beach and still have access to my phone, that might be worth it, but how often do those situations arise... I will most likely pass on the watch, i don;t think it's for me unless someone can explain why it's so useful and a must-have. I don't think they look particularly aesthetic so looks wouldn't be a reason to buy for me.
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(a) Notifications. Whether you want a constant stream (Twitter, Facebook) or a trickle (Mail, notifications from house cameras) you can tweak things so you get told what is happening. If you want to respond, you might have to go to your phone, but for most of us, just seeing what's what is good enough. Eg you can scan the top of an email and see if it's worth getting your phone, or can be ignored for now

(b) Siri is useful for the same things that people talk about in the context of Alexa. You can control home automation devices like switching on/off lights. You can ask simple questions (how many grams in an ounce? what's 35 taiwan dollars in US dollars?) EXTREMELY useful to me is reminders ("Hey Siri, when I get home remind me to put some more bills in my wallet", "Hey Siri when I get to work, remind me to talk to Sam about that JPEG bug", "Hey Siri, add <food item> to list Costco".

(c) "Glanceable" information. If you have a significant other who travels a lot, you can have their timezone on your main face. The Siri face does a reasonable job of surfacing "interesting and probably relevant" random information (what's your next appointment, a photo from this date a year ago, news headlines).

(d) Health/fitness tracking has some value, which will likely grow as it covers more and more of your life. I definitely appreciate the hourly reminders to stand, which noticeably reduce my feeling old and creaky (from sitting for three hours without standing).

For SOME use cases, the watch is also a good remote control. These include easy control of music (but ONLY music :-( ) playback (spoken word is handled so badly you might as well not bother; hopefully this is finally fixed with the next OS). Likewise some people might find remote camera control useful --- you can see/compose/take the picture via your wrist, which helps if you want to be in it.

The main thing is that, just like you don't expect your phone to be useful in the same way that your laptop is useful -- you don't use Excel on your phone, or try to write programs --- so the watch is not a small phone. It's useful for different things, and those things are all small, but they add up to quite a bit.

And yes, the first aWatch was way too slow in HW, and the OS was too slow. The OS got a lot better with updates, the HW still sucked until the next year. But even the aWatch 2 with current HW is almost always fast enough. (Booting is slow, but that's rare. Opening an app is slow, but again, rare -- opened apps stay open. Siri is still too slow, and that's the main item IMHO that needs to be fixed.) The aWatch3 is faster still (with even better battery life).
 
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asdavis10 said:
Apple has the best leaks these days. No espionage necessary.
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Oh yes, these are "accidental" leaks.... Really?

Of course they leaked teases, how else do you get the world excited about the keynote? You could call these advance photos pre-release publicity -- and don't forget -- Samesong's new Note hits stores this week, no better way to distract than this...

This was no leak but good solid strategy..
 
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Looks awesome IMO, a perfect evolution of the previous design.

If the resale value of the S3 doesn't tank I'll probably dip on this.
 
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A nice
seatton said:
So beautiful... take my money!

What is that UVI thing on the watch face?? A new sensor detecting the UV?
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Er... it’s just the data from the Weather Channel. This isn’t anything new. The only thing that is new is the overcrowded ugly watch face. But this should help the Gear Watch users switch over as they love cluttered, ugly watch faces. :p
 
I’m glad the red dot looks to now be a subdued ring. I hate when I catch a glimpse of it on my Series 3. Soooo ugly. Hopefully it’s the same ring or gone altogether on the stainless model...
 
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agsystems said:
this is something very confusing - my wife rushes the kids to school in the morning and forgets the phone but LTE watch does not pickup and goes straight to voice mail - she has to reboot the watch every time to reconnect the AT&T network
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Mine does that too...since day one. It really needs a strong signal or it won't connect. I blame AT&T more than Apple...but Apple really needs to figure this out.
 
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Ok so the hole between the crown and the solid state button is the weather temperature sensor. Also we can see the temperature on this watch face also
So this will be even more stand alone device
 
gijoeinla said:
Oh yes, these are "accidental" leaks.... Really?

Of course they leaked teases, how else do you get the world excited about the keynote? You could call these advance photos pre-release publicity -- and don't forget -- Samesong's new Note hits stores this week, no better way to distract than this...

This was no leak but good solid strategy..
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You guys are right... from what I hear the person that sent these to 9to5mac was named Jim Chef.... sounds fishy to me
 
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macduke said:
...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....
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Just because you can now (apparently) do it doesn't mean you have to. I'm sure you could still choose to set nothing in any of those places.
 
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19SK91 said:
I doubt the crown is capacitive. It still has the creases. Hold the crown of your current watch with one finger and then rub against it with another finger. That doesn‘t feel right.
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It will still turn. They may make it capacitive to help waterproofing.
 
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