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Apple Watch Series 7 to Feature Several New Faces to Take Advantage of Display With 16% More Pixels
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Im hoping for a big battery improvement. I've not owned the watch since I sold my series 3, but if someone said you can have the S6, with this (IMO) nicer design, with double the battery life then id be interested in having one again.
Without trying it on that is based only on renders that are essentially rumours about what it will look like. Except for people that are actually insiders almost certainly under Apple NDAs, or had a leak from such a person that they can 100% verify, everyone else is guessing at this stage.
For what it's worth my guess is that this "squaring off" is mostly going to be on the top (watch face) half of the body where it won't curve in towards the display as it does now. That will allow for the bigger screen area and also very slightly more internal volume in the top half of the watch. For the bottom half (closest to the wrist) the sensors already form a convex curvature that I suspect will remain but I also have a suspicion that the lower half of the body itself, while maybe having less of a curve into the wrist than the current Series 6 does, will still have some level of curvature where the bottom edge of the case still curves in towards the health sensors rather than being a sharp edge.
The main reason for my guess is because it is widely rumoured that existing watch straps will still be compatible. If the sides really are flat all the way down then the only way I can see that being possible is if, instead of the attachment slots being angled slightly down towards the wrist as they are on the series 6 and earlier, the slots are aligned parallel to the top and bottom faces of the watch. That would mean that the straps come out at right angles to the side of the watch rather than at an angle down towards the wrist. That downward angle really helps making a watch look smaller and better fitting on the wrist, especially for bigger watches and/or smaller wrists. I just checked and every single one of my 9 non-Apple watches ranging from cheap Casio digital up to expensive Breitling/Ebel/Nomos(*) watches has the strap attachment points angled down towards the wrist so I would be very surprised if Apple did not maintain that orientation especially if it is making the actual physical case sizes 1mm bigger as some rumours are saying.
(*) I no longer wear any of those watches since I bought my first Apple Watch (a Series 6) on a whim and fell in love with it. I really should think about selling some of my other watches now since they are just gathering dust in a drawer.
You should send in your resume. Sounds like they need you to show them how to do it faster?
Excited to see the new watch faces. Too bad it will be available only on series 7.
You can kind of do that now, assuming your car has CarPlay or at least bluetooth. Make a new automation using the Shortcuts app that changes to the Watch face of your choice when your iPhone connects to CarPlay or the bluetooth in your car. Motion sensing would be neat though.
Totally agree. Too many boring watch faces. Wish you could delete them.
Why?
This has been true of virtually any non-introductory Apple product for decades. Their main audience of the iPhone 12 isn’t iPhone 11 customers either.
You said “they have to compel people to pay the tax over …the S6.”
They only have to do that if they care whether people buy the S6 or the S7.
So, yes, it was the argument.
Has anyone done the math? If the 45mm S7 ihas a 16% larger display compared to 44mm S6, what would a similar increase do to the 41mm S7? Would the display be comparable to the side of the current 44mm S6?
I'd love to keep the screen size I have but in a smaller body, like what they did with the iPad Pro when they went to a full-screen design and maintained the 12.9-inch display in a smaller overall device. I guess I'd need to buy all new bands, but it might be worth it to have a smaller, lighter watch on my wrist at all times.
So, 44mm S6 - 1.78 inch display (I saw 1.73 somewhere too?)
45mm S7 - 1.9
40mm S6 - 1.57
41mm S7 - ??
I'd love to keep the screen size I have but in a smaller body, like what they did with the iPad Pro when they went to a full-screen design and maintained the 12.9-inch display in a smaller overall device. I guess I'd need to buy all new bands, but it might be worth it to have a smaller, lighter watch on my wrist at all times.
So, 44mm S6 - 1.78 inch display (I saw 1.73 somewhere too?)
45mm S7 - 1.9
40mm S6 - 1.57
41mm S7 - ??
So, what exactly are you doing reading news stories about Apple Watch anyway, if you're that vehemently opposed to the device. Nothing better to do with your time than troll forums?
Before Apple Watch, some of us were able to afford more than the occasional Casio or Times, so, yes,$100 a year for watches is not very much. Hell, my wife spends that on Swatches.
I just have an S4.. but honestly see no real point to upgrading unless my watch was broken? The extra 1mm isn’t exactly changing the game. Nice watch and if I didn’t have one 100% would get the latest one. But even from S3 cellular onwards, not a ton of stuff in the “need” category. Which is good. The watch is not something I would consider annually or even every second year.Here's a mock-up illustration giving an idea of actual screen increase, rather than the 1mm change in the case size.
