Apple Watch Ultra 3 Launching This September: What to Expect

[Cool_Cat]

Had to comment after chuckling at so many “My U1 needs an upgrade” or “I’ll stick with my U2”. I’ve been waiting for this watch and it will be replacing my Apple Watch Series 4.

 

[jz0309]

First you tell me the technology exists and then don’t have a company or product. Then you Google it and link a company with a website that looks like it was coded with Geocities and HTML offering a non invasive glucose monitor “product” for NON DIABETICS. Here’s a hint, non diabetics have a built in non invasive glucose monitor it’s called their pancreas. But it gets better, the same company isn’t even attempting the product in diabetics, has no FDA filings and literally doesn’t even have a pipeline lol. It’s literally a late night QVC product. To wrap this up, the technology DOES NOT exist and if it ever does it will not be by Apple and it will not be in a compact enough for for their Apple Watch. You glucose monitoring folk are so far removed from reality on this. But don’t even take my word for it - look at what Apple’s exec said on the topic “MANY YEARS”. What do you think that’s code for?

Whatever, I wish you the best, I'm done with this conversation.

 

[Deanster]

I’ve said it before in other Apple Watch threads, and I’ll say it again: I really wish Apple Watches had blood sugar/A1C measuring. That would really help diabetics

My son is a Type 1 Diabetic, and nonintrusive blood sugar testing has been a medical Holy Grail for decades... it's apparently somewhere between really difficult and almost-impossible to do with just light or other sensing technology through the skin. It's on every medical device company's radar as a huge potential market and 100's of millions of dollars have been spent pursuing it, but from what I've read, it remains elusive at all, much less in a consumer wearable format, much much less in an Apple Watch's size/weight/power budget format.

I'd love this feature also, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it, sadly.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I will get one only if it has Blood pressure monitoring build in. Glucose monitoring would be nice too

All the other stuff I don’t care

 

[svish]

Think it will have a slightly larger screen matching Series 10 along with LTPO3/Wide angle OLED which support always on display for the seconds hand, 5G connectivity and faster chip. Price should remain the same.

 

[marko232]

I would rather it be thinner and lighter than a slightly bigger display. I certainly hope there are more than just these changes..........

 

[Davelfc]

Still happy with my U1, I can wait another year.

 

[Tozovac]

Still runs great but starting to feel a bit sluggish at times.

Why would this happen?

Does anyone know kf a battery replacement would fix this?

 

[Tozovac]

But the Ultra needs to be slimmer, similar to S10 for wider adoption. Right now, it's like wearing a wrist clock.

I wish somebody from Apple would chime in finally somewhere about the Apple Watch Ultra size. As a design engineer myself I want to assume its size is driven to package the battery and other hardware/components required to provide the special features of an “adventurer ultra-feature watch” that are above and beyond the standard Apple Watch, and which can’t be packaged in the same size as the standard Apple Watch.

Or is the Apple Watch intentionally supersized, for marketing and that special wow factor…

 

[BB714]

What the ultra (and all the watches need) is to be completely standalone devices. Not linked to your iPhone number. So a person can (conceivably) go without a phone at all. I know it'll never happen.

 

[dabesdiabetic0]

My son is a Type 1 Diabetic, and nonintrusive blood sugar testing has been a medical Holy Grail for decades... it's apparently somewhere between really difficult and almost-impossible to do with just light or other sensing technology through the skin. It's on every medical device company's radar as a huge potential market and 100's of millions of dollars have been spent pursuing it, but from what I've read, it remains elusive at all, much less in a consumer wearable format, much much less in an Apple Watch's size/weight/power budget format.

I'd love this feature also, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it, sadly.

Thank you. As a T1D I’ve been spamming to users on this post. It will not happen. A user above is trying to tell me the tech exists.

 

[bababooie]

ultra 1 deprecation starting in september you mean

 

[repoman016]

Do you think that Apple is artificially restricting battery life? If they could get a 7-day runtime, don't you think they'd do that? This is a physics limit, not a business decision. The needed battery tech doesn't exist yet.

Honestly, I don't think they would. Slow incremental upgrades is the cash cow. a 7 day battery would wipe out every apple watch purchased in the last 10 years