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New Renders Offer Best Look Yet at Alleged Apple Watch 'Pro' Ahead of Tomorrow's Event
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So, someone plays around with photoshop and makes some fake promos, using wrong fonts, spacing, and even grammar, and that's news?
Calling it… the “band” is going to be a full housing case. Won’t look like these renders in the wild.
I accidentally called emergency services when lifting weights in the gym. (I think my weightlifting gloves held down the side button.) Since then, I use the watch with the screen rotated on my right arm. The crown is just as easy to use with a thumb and it’s more comfortable for me. I’d definitely have to do that with a bigger watch. But I think a bigger Apple Watch might just be too big for me.I have a stupid question for anyone who owns an Apple Watch. Is it bi-directional. Meaning I can wear it on either wrist and have it orient properly.
Cause I notice that the crown is on the right hand side of the watch. If I wear it on my right wrist so that the crown is on the left will the watch be upside down....or orient itself correctly for me being left handed?
Thanks for anyone's info. I can live in a right handed world, Just prefer not to.
Tom
I find it so ridiculous when people doing these renders also try and imitate Apple ad copy.
Maybe he meant they literally can't innovate his ass any more?
It’s funny how bad these renders look. I believe watches can be both useful and aesthetically pleasing, this aint it.
A concept designer they may be, a copy writer they most certainly are not.
New renders of the upcoming Apple Watch Pro have given us the best look yet at what's expected to become the newest high-end Apple Watch, featuring an all-new design, a larger and flat display, and a new physical button.
The new renders, created by concept designer Ian Zelbo in collaboration with Parker Ortolani, are based on CAD renders of the Apple Watch Pro shared yesterday. Until yesterday, little was known about the Apple Watch Pro's expected design other than to say it would be more rugged and durable for athletes, hikers, runners, and more.
The Apple Watch Pro will feature the first significant redesign of the Apple Watch since the Series 4, rethinking the case design to become less curved with an entirely flat display. The display on the Apple Watch Pro is expected to be considerably bigger than the Series 7 and the upcoming Series 8, thanks to the flatter top design.
Fitting with its more rugged look and feel, the Apple Watch Pro features all-new protruding housing for the Digital Crown and the Side Button. Both are housed in a mold on the right side of the watch that protrudes outwards, which could make them more easily accessible. The Digital Crown itself is also being redesigned to feature more prominent indents.
On the left side of the watch, the Apple Watch Pro is expected to feature an all-new physical button similar to the Side Button. The button is rumored to be configurable to a user's liking. It could be customized to open watchOS apps, begin specific workouts, or even quickly run shortcuts without navigating the watch itself.
With the larger display on the Apple Watch Series 7, Apple updated visual elements across watchOS to take better advantage of the added real estate. The same is expected with the Apple Watch Pro and its larger display. Compared to the Series 7's display size of 1.691-inches and 1.901-inches on the 41mm and 45mm sizes, the Apple Watch Pro screen could measure around 1.99-inches in a 49mm case.
On the Apple Watch Pro, customers can expect new watch faces that take advantage of the larger display, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Also, according to Gurman, expect Apple to release a new line of watch bands designed specifically for the Apple Watch Pro. Existing watch bands are expected to be somewhat compatible with the Apple Watch Pro but may not be an exact fit.
Changes coming to watchOS 9 that show additional on screen
The new watch faces could have room to display metrics from workouts and health data gathered by the watch. The new watch faces come in addition to improvements made in watchOS 9 that seem tailored towards a larger Apple Watch, such as refinements during Workouts that show additional metrics all in one screen.
Beyond a new design and a larger display, the Apple Watch Pro will likely benefit from all the improvements coming to the Apple Watch Series 8, including a new body temperature sensor. The body temperature sensor, unlike typical thermometers, is unlikely to provide wearers a direct reading of their body temperature in its early iteration.
The Apple Watch Pro, with its all-new design, larger display, and more durable materials, is expected to cost somewhere between $900 and $1,000. The new watch will be the most expensive Apple Watch yet, likely replacing the Apple Watch Edition at the top of the lineup. The Apple Watch Pro, the Apple Watch Series 8, a new Apple Watch SE, new iPhones, and more are all rumored to be on the agenda for Apple's "Far out" event tomorrow.
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If the new button can be programmed to do lap/segment in the workout app, it will be well worth the upgrade to me. It’s almost impossible to segment a run tapping a touch screen with your sweaty finger, often double clicking the same icon spot and ending the workout accidentally..
Just when you thought the Apple watch couldn't get any uglier. Seriously most people I know hate that it's not round so much that they refuse to buy one even though they use Apple everything. Especially my dad's generation who will all wear standard round watches, but saw my old Apple Watch and thought it was a calculator on my wrist.
They need to make the watch look like a watch to open up the market for them.
They need to make the watch look like a watch to open up the market for them.
Or they don't considering it is the best selling smartwatch already. I think Apple is happy with the direction they took and they aren't going to change it.
It is just something made up by the 2 guys who designed this render.
It does appear that way, could mean Apple will have cases available for it. I am guessing the idea is that you can put the case on it when you need to do "EXTREME" stuff. And you can take the case off it when it is time to just be a regular old apple watch
Imo the processor and the sensors will all be magnetic and will be able to be user changed /s
If that is real then it looks like they are keeping the Ive (?) designs and tacking on useful stuff with little regard to how it looks. Kinda fits in with the Mac Studio and the laptop models of late. Appreciated for computers but perhaps not quite the level of elegance you would want to wear on your wrist as techno jewelry. 
Well, I prefer mechanical watches anyway. Enough electronic gadgets in my life as it is.
Well, I prefer mechanical watches anyway. Enough electronic gadgets in my life as it is.
As I pointed out a couple times in this thread, this is likely also an Ive design since they've been working on this for years and he only recently stopped consulting.