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Gurman: Apple Watch Series 8 to Bring 'Major Updates to Activity Tracking'
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The Watch CPU is far behind the iPhone CPU. So a significant increase there may allow for new software features, such as e.g. fully on-device processing of Siri commands.
As the rumors also talk of a more "rugged" flavour, maybe the version with no mechanical buttons may finally appear. And an even bigger display with higher resolution may be attractive for people with lesser sight and people who want to show off alike, but may need more GPU power than the current S6/S7 chip can offer.
Perhaps the S8 chip shrinks to a smaller process, thus allowing for energy savings as well, which may eventually be required for certain sensors to be implemented.
Bigger housing may also be helpful for future health sensors, so why not introducing it with the upcoming generation to prepare people for the new standards?! If nothing else, it would also allow for a bigger battery, which is an often heard demand from people without an outlet nearby all of the time.
I know - it's all crystal ball reading, but to me it sounds at least not too implausible.
I just upgraded from a S0 to S7. I don’t see the reason why I would upgrade again soon. That long-rumoured blood glucose monitoring would be very nice for my grandma who needs to measure her glucose level twice every single day but I don’t see that feature coming this year nor it would be as accurate as a approved medical device.
It needs the same metrics as the Garmin Fenix and it needs at least 1/4 of the runtime that the Fenix can get without a charge. The time between charges is the number 1 thing that Apple could do to get me to trade in my Fenix for another Apple Watch. I have had an Apple Watch and I didn't leave it mainly due to the metrics. I left mainly due to battery life. My second reason for leaving was that only an iPhone can access the data since Apple doesn't even provide a web based portal for the data. It makes no sense to only be able to view the data (by default) on your second smallest screen.
I've seen some, and they look decent. But I'm more interested in an integrated ruggedness, which hopefully would happen with slightly less bulk. I have smaller wrists, so that's important to me, at least.
I have this HR issue with Watch 7 and had it with 5 & 6 too. Really irritates me. I thought it was my issue re positioning if watch on wrist or band tightness. It can work eg for a run and once I stop and select cool down the HR doesn’t record. No pattern to it.
I wish I knew how yours does it. My 4 was always gutted by my 1.5 hour morning cardio — GPS, cellular, Bluetooth music — and had to be recharged afterwards to make it through the rest of the day and evening cardio. At 84% battery health, it’s even worse.
The only thing that really makes sense to me is that maybe the cell signal is subpar on parts of my route. Turning off cellular, which defeats the purpose, greatly lessens the issue.
I don't use BT music on it and don't have cellular. When I bike outside, I have my iPhone in my under-seat bag, so it uses the GPS on that. I'm sure all that adds up in some ways.
Yeah, when I take my phone and listen to it, I only lose about 10% of the battery in an hour and a half or so. The watch does fine if I’m using my phone instead.