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Leaked S11 Chip Details Reveal No Major Performance Upgrades for 2025 Apple Watches
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Just so you learn something, when Apple refers to "battery performance" it's related to the impact of things like temperature, charge cycles, and internal resistance. It has nothing to do with chassis volume and capacity. Those are scaling factors.
If you don't know the correct terms, just ask.
"battery performance" also refers to battery life which is what I was talking about. if you don't know the correct terms, just ask.
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Your own underlining proves those are different things, otherwise Apple would use the term "battery life" in both sentences.
Under cold temperatures, internal resistance increases. This is why Apple uses the word "performance" in second sentence.
Take minute to actually read and understand the terms before replying.
"you may notice a decrease in battery life, but this condition is temporary. Once the battery’s temperature returns to its normal operating range, its performance will return to normal as well."
"its performance" is referencing the earlier mentioned condition of decrease in "battery life" that returned back to normal.
cheers. have a good evening.
Of course not. Why do you think Apple deliberately chose another word instead of simply reusing "battery life"?
"Performance" refers to other factors like internal resistance and charging rate (C-Rate). Under extreme cold temperatures, the device may not charge at all.
They just get lazier and lazier with each passing year. Nothing exciting anymore. Except for those new emoji coming in iOS 26.4.
Seems to refer to the core architecture. This is because the baseband, PMIC, wireless chip, etc. can change between SiP generations, but the T- identifier remains the same.
The only thing people want is longer battery life in the watch.
Performance gains for a watch really are not noticeable in the UX. And it's a smart watch not your laptop.
Performance gains for a watch really are not noticeable in the UX. And it's a smart watch not your laptop.
Considering I’m using a S6, the U3 I plan getting will be a massive upgrade either way in more ways than one. My series 6 honestly isn’t doing bad, it’s just a tad slow and the battery is pretty bad now.
You would be fine with a processor upgrade even if there are no new hardware or OS changes?
what? no new emojis on Watch?
Apple is doomed... Can't innovate... Jobs would never... Cook needs to be sacked...
Covered all whinges?
Apple is doomed... Can't innovate... Jobs would never... Cook needs to be sacked...
Covered all whinges?
So no need to upgrade from my Series 8, then? Cool.
Oh and to those mocking the need for a new SoC, new cores tend to be more energy efficient, not just faster. Higher efficiency is most noticeable in improved battery life, which is of chief concern to AW users.
Oh and to those mocking the need for a new SoC, new cores tend to be more energy efficient, not just faster. Higher efficiency is most noticeable in improved battery life, which is of chief concern to AW users.
I want neither lol. I mean, I'll take both, but I'm not pining for either. I never come close to running out of battery in my Series 10. And yeah UX performance is good.
What I want is more features--whatever they can come up with--which will probably also require increase in performance and efficiency/battery at some point.
But that's me.