I'm not really sure the watch needs to be thinner. I've been wearing the ultra for the last few months and when I change to my 45mm series 7 it feels very discreet..
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Kuo: Apple Watch Series 10 to Get Larger Screen and Thinner Design
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Fair enough. I usually do a 30+ minute workout each day and I have cellular, but I’m rarely without me phone.
Plus their seems to be a real inconsistency between people personal experiences.
My guess is it would be something like the MacBook's MagSafe Charger magnets, which are really strong and can’t just come off by accident.
From what I hear, including my own view point, battery time is by far the most asked for improvement.
Awesome news. The Apple Watch has been far too chunky. Glad to see innovation is slowly easing those limitations.
There are many factors that affect the battery. I often trained without a phone in the field, where the
network coverage was poor. My Series 7 is ready for replacement, which I couldn't say about Series 3 and SE. Currently, training with the cellular network is a maximum of 18 minutes from 100% to 0%, after which it turns off, then on and stays at a stable 10%.
And the strength of these magnets does not make me hold my MBP by the cable with full confidence in the magnetic field. I don't feel like I should trust it on the first day of release and buy it right away. These three protrusions may be small, but they give me physical confidence.
The magnets might be strong, but also made to come lose very easy if you snag the cord. Basically that's what they're made to do. If the watch falls of every time I snag it on something it will be annoying to to the point of being useless.
The MagSafe on iPhones are stronger (because they are bigger), but even those are very easy to losen.
Apple is in the game of quickly outdating fairly recent devices again to resell basically the same product.
Super disappointed with the discontinuation of SE 1st gen support, this was on the market less than 2 years ago. The new (underwhelming) features introduced in watchOS 11 don't justify the decision at all. There is nothing that stands out as hardware demanding.
Also, look at the iPhone 14 pro and iPhone 15, people who bought them recently were in for a nasty surprise with the "no AI for you" announcement.
Super disappointed with the discontinuation of SE 1st gen support, this was on the market less than 2 years ago. The new (underwhelming) features introduced in watchOS 11 don't justify the decision at all. There is nothing that stands out as hardware demanding.
Also, look at the iPhone 14 pro and iPhone 15, people who bought them recently were in for a nasty surprise with the "no AI for you" announcement.
Apple Watch was introduced in 2015, so the 10th anniversary is next year
No. My Series 6 still lasts a bit more than 24 hrs.
The Series 6 of my gf barely makes it through the day. I have the bigger one - always suspected the battery's also bigger.
Meh, getting through a day is fine for me. If I just wanted more battery life I would have gotten an ultra already.
I've held off buying any new bands since the new band mechanism leaks started, I know they'll do an adapter if true but I'd still rather wait.
As for the design, I welcome a larger display as I HATE the ultra because its butt ugly and disgusting but I think old ming is mixing screen sizes up with case sizes.
I imagine he actually means 41mm will have the screen of the 45mm and the 45mm will have the screen of the Ultra (49mm), so a redesign with tiny bezels could achieve this without a huge size increase.
Either way, I hope midnight is still a colour.
As for the design, I welcome a larger display as I HATE the ultra because its butt ugly and disgusting but I think old ming is mixing screen sizes up with case sizes.
I imagine he actually means 41mm will have the screen of the 45mm and the 45mm will have the screen of the Ultra (49mm), so a redesign with tiny bezels could achieve this without a huge size increase.
Either way, I hope midnight is still a colour.
If that were actually true, the iPhone 15 Pro wouldn’t get it. Every year updates come to their devices that won’t be supported by a previous ones. In this case the iPhone 15 Pro actually gets it, so I don’t see the problem.
It was released in 2015 but it was announced in 2014.
This year's model is actually the 11th version.
Please for the love of god don’t drop the 41mm - I’d love to upgrade to this from my Series 3 but I simply can’t wear the larger sizes and I’d love to not have to get the S9 and miss out on what’s new
There's not enough room on the current displays to increase the screen size by that much. Plus, Apple has never talked about screen size when describing watch models, only case size. Screen size is in the tech specs, mainly in pixels (though they mention the overall display size in sq. mm.).
Well since my series 5 is not receiving watchOS 11, I might consider one… which is a shame since it still works perfectly…
It was introduced in September 2014.
Then released in April 2015.
Edit: As SmugMaverick said above...
If I don't take my phone mountain biking and leave it in the van, just take my watch, it can happily spend a few hours trying to connect to cellular where it's got awful signal (cuz mountains/valleys) while trying to log fitness activity and it'll rinse its battery before I get home. That was from new. Now the battery is a bit older, similarly if I've got my phone with me it normally lasts a day, but if I'm in the labs most of the day, where reception is poor and no phones, it's very likely to rinse the battery and die sometime in the evening.
Have I ever been bothered by how thick my watch is? Never. Not once. Have I ever been annoyed by it's battery life? Not all the time, but pretty regularly. Especially when running on cellular and logging fitness activities for a few hours. So it's basically ok if I don't use most of it's features!
Have I ever been bothered by how thick my watch is? Never. Not once. Have I ever been annoyed by it's battery life? Not all the time, but pretty regularly. Especially when running on cellular and logging fitness activities for a few hours. So it's basically ok if I don't use most of it's features!
I definitely don’t need an even bigger screen on my Watch. I won’t buy anything bigger. Thinner? Yes, but I’m done with the Apple ecosystem if they obsolete existing bands.
If iPhone 15 Pro didn't get it then they would have no AI announcement to make at WWDC at all which would have been a terrible decision business wise.
The Apple Watch is the only reason I’m still with Apple. At my age, I rely on the Apple Watch as a quasi life alert’ type of deal and other health monitoring functions. I welcome the new design for easier viewing and easier finger manipulation. Despite the iOS clunkiness, its still the better mouse trap versus the hockey pucks from the other camp. 🤷♂️
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