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Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 6 With Blood Oxygen Monitoring and New Color Options

Apple Watch speed improvements are weirdly inconsistent. Series 4 was a whopping 100% faster than Series 3, then Series 5 had no improvement, and Series 6 has a modest 20% improvement. Did they already pick the low hanging fruit between Series 3 and 4 and then they hit a wall?

[edit: Series 4 is 100% faster (2x) than Series 3, not 200%]
 
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I don't mean to offend anybody but IMO blue and red watches look horrible. I'd bet a dollar that Apple doesn't keep them around next year.
 
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esh314 said:
Apple Watch speed improvements are weirdly inconsistent. Series 4 was a whopping 200% faster than Series 3, then Series 5 had no improvement, and Series 6 has a modest 20% improvement. Did they already pick the low hanging fruit between Series 3 and 4 and then they hit a wall?
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Series 4 was 100% (2x) faster than Series 3, not 200%.

The speed differences are largely tied to the A series chips. The S6 is loosely based on the A13, which had modest gains itself.

Now the A14 is jumping down to 5nm. The Series 7 could be another 100% speed increase due to the ability to fit more transistors in the same space and likely save battery as well.
 
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I’m interested in longer battery life. Funny to have sleep monitor on a device that needs to be charged every night.
 
Deefuzz said:
Where in the world did you read that? The watch faces are part of WatchOS 7.
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watchOS 11 helps you better understand your daily health status using your overnight vitals and shows you how workouts impact your body over time.
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I watched the Apple’s video about this watch and I was trying to understand how measuring blood oxygen level is useful. But all they told was a list of university names.
 
All the medical stuff probably won’t work outside of the US, so might as well stick to my Series 4.

Always-on-display did not motivate me to switch a year ago, and doesn’t now.
 
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I’m an MD. I don’t need to learn “the facts” as you call them.
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You being an MD can be misleading to others here. Lots of my colleagues aren’t trained on Covid. We speak with respirologists who are trained to look for symptoms. Having a blood oxygen level is extremely useful, plus we’ll take a reading ourselves.
 
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Another mediocre update. You can get a series 3 and you won't notice much of a difference after the first week and testing your sp02 and altitude 10x a day.
 
I will get excited when they release a form factor that does not look like a tiny original iPhone (in a bad way) strapped to your wrist.
 
I only update the watch when new health sensors are added so I'll be getting this. I've gone from 0 to 4 and now 6.
 
BGPL said:
Another mediocre update. You can get a series 3 and you won't notice much of a difference after the first week and testing your sp02 and altitude 10x a day.
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Until support for the series 3 is probably dropped in another year or two.
 
With Apple Watch 6 and its new blood oxygen sensor, I’m not too excited as pulsoximetry really has little value in everyday life. By the time it drops, the wearer would already know very well with shortness breath and other symptoms. It’s good as a clinical monitor in numerous active disease states eg. Obstructive sleep apnea, but just not for great great majority of users out there. BUT, if this new sensor is more capable in sensing HR which has been rather dodgy on my AW4 during sporting activities, then it may be a more valid attraction for an upgrade.
 
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btrach144 said:
Series 4 was 100% (2x) faster than Series 3, not 200%.

The speed differences are largely tied to the A series chips. The S6 is loosely based on the A13, which had modest gains itself.

Now the A14 is jumping down to 5nm. The Series 7 could be another 100% speed increase due to the ability to fit more transistors in the same space and likely save battery as well.
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Great point about the 5nm A14. And you're right about the percentage, my mistake.
 
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Love the always on altimeter! Looks like that must just be me, doesn't seem like anyone else is too excited.

I've found my Series 5 has been a lot more useful than I would have expected, but the inability for the altimeter to update properly has been one of the few disappointments. Hopefully there's a good complication that uses the new one well.
 
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Heart rate, ECG, VO2, and blood oxygen level along with everything else in the watch. It's really mind-blowing how much tech is packed into such a small device...
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Something Garmin have been doing with it's Fenix range for 5 years now.
 
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