Apple Watch SE 3 Coming Soon: What to Expect

[ignatius345]

It is standard practice in the tech industry to refer to screen sizes by inches. I live in Australia which is fully metric and all TVs, monitors, phones and tablets the display is in inches.

Yeah, I get that.

It’s not that odd for the writer to say the change of screen size in inches to allow people to better visualise the size, while ending the paragraph to say the Apple advertised sizing.

Technically, maybe, but as an editorial matter it's impossible for a casual reader to parse this comparison without doing math. Why write like that?

 

[mpavilion]

Yeah, I get that.


Technically, maybe, but as an editorial matter it's impossible for a casual reader to parse this comparison without doing math. Why write like that?

+1, it’s super weird

 

[Happy_John]

Yeah, I get that.


Technically, maybe, but as an editorial matter it's impossible for a casual reader to parse this comparison without doing math. Why write like that?

It makes the writing feel a but AI generated, even though it’s not. Numbers pulled directly from spec sheets, technically correct, but incongruous.

 

[Prince Akeem]

Apple will probably never release a Watch SE with always-on display. For the normal Apple Watch, this is the major selling point, if not the most important. For me, it makes the device really 'feel' like a real watch. A quick glance at your wrist tells you the time from any angle, instead of raising your wrist all time. Coming from a series 0 to series 7 the AOD made a huge change (the most important one, apart from the expected speed bump). I'm all for power-saving things (never use AOD on my iPhone, don't like it there), but on the watch, I always have it on.

If Apple released an AOD Watch SE, there's not much of a selling point left for the normal/mid range Apple watch. I mean, what most people just need is 'watch' functionality and basic heart rate and gps (enough for most workouts). Most of the other sensors are in the end just a gimmick (for most people anyway). So when the SE has what is has now, PLUS an always on display, there's no good reason to upsell from an SE. For people only using the device now and then mostly for workouts, an SE is perfectly fine already, no good reason to spend much more.

Well.... Here we are, the SE3 out there now. Wow, I fully stand corrected: the SE 3 has Always-On-Display!

That just leaves me with more options to choose from if I ever wanted to replace my Series 7; the new SE3 may be fine since I don't really need any of the differences with the Series 11: don't really the ECG and blood saturation sensors, the diving/depth indication, also don't really need the new high blood pressure detection from the Series 11.