💯. The limited color options for the Aluminum model is to me the biggest issue with the AW 10. I‘m not a fan of the glossy black, have never like the silver aluminum and rose gold ain’t for me. For this reason alone, AW 10…at least in the aluminum version…is an update to pass on.
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Not very excited. Am I the only one ?
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I went from a S3 to S7 Christmastime of 2021 and it felt like a huge upgrade. Go to an Apple Store and check out the 10. See if the size difference is worth it to you. If not get the 9. Well, unless you think you might have sleep apnea and don't have a spouse to tell you. LOL
You know that you can simply “ignore” posts, right?
after all this is a discussion forum of a bunch of internet users and everyone has the right to express themselves within the boundary conditions of the site overall..
For the “iPhone X” moment, we sort of got that on the iPad 10, when the design moved to the iPad Air look, and a few more updates.
I admit also I was patiently waiting for an Apple Watch 10 moment. After the reveal, I was left with a “this is okay” feeling. It wasn’t too minor in upgrades, but it didn’t have the iPhone X feeling.
I know people have also wanted the black, silver, and rose to return, but I also thought Starlight was popular enough to retain as a fourth option.
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I've never seen a community so desperate to spend their money. There are plenty of toys out there that will keep you occupied until Apple decides to bring more innovation to the race.
Well, I like smartwatches, and the only real smartwatch that works with an iPhone is AW. A Garmin is great if you mainly do workouts, but I actually use Siri, calendar, tasks, texts and email. Even calls, occasionally.
And my current S4, while still perfectly capable of everything I use it for, doesn't hold the charge from the early morning until the bedtime.
So, I need to spend the money. The question is, what for. Do I save a hundred plus and get an S9, or do I just get an S10. Major accidents aside, I'm likely to use it for another five years.
Right now, after seeing the upgrade, I strongly lean towards S9 if I can get a 45mm one for under $300.
Yes…Starlight was awesome. Even the pink from last year was great. My last Product Red was the S6…loved it. I just think this is a very poor year for color options in the AW Aluminum. It’s almost as if they’re holding back to try and nudge folks up the line to the Titanium models…which I quite like.
As a small watch fan, same here unfortunately. Some people like small watches for the fit, and some like small watches so they don't stand out. A large matte black aluminum watch would have helped visually offset the extra size. But larger + glossy is just too much for me.
The series 5 had by far the worst battery life of any Apple Watch I’ve had, and I’ve had most of them.
Went from 4 to 7 personally. My 7 lost battery health faster than most of my other watches though
I'm upgrading to a Jet Black Series 10 next week from a Series 8. The list of all changes is pretty impressive I think:
- Bigger screen
- Thinner
- Wide-angle OLED (Up to 40% brighter when viewed at an angle)
- Always-on screen updates 1 once per second (rather than 1 once per minute)
- Depth gauge to 6m
- Water temperature sensor
- Faster charging (0–80 in about 30 minutes)
- Media playback on speaker
- Faster S10 SiP chip
- Brighter screen 200 nits (v 1000 nits on Series 8)
- Sleep apnoea notifications
- Double tap gesture
- Fast on-device Siri
- Precision Finding for iPhone
- Second-generation Ultra Wideband chip
- Capacity 64GB (v 32GB on Series 8)
A lot of those features are useful to me. No one ever talks about the extended storage capacity that Series 9 introduced but it allows for 32GB of music storage (versus 16GB on Series 8) useful if you're working out without your iPhone nearby, plus the Maps app allows for offline maps to be stored locally on the watch itself and they can be approx 1 GB each. Having Siri work without a network connection will be useful too.
- Bigger screen
- Thinner
- Wide-angle OLED (Up to 40% brighter when viewed at an angle)
- Always-on screen updates 1 once per second (rather than 1 once per minute)
- Depth gauge to 6m
- Water temperature sensor
- Faster charging (0–80 in about 30 minutes)
- Media playback on speaker
- Faster S10 SiP chip
- Brighter screen 200 nits (v 1000 nits on Series 8)
- Sleep apnoea notifications
- Double tap gesture
- Fast on-device Siri
- Precision Finding for iPhone
- Second-generation Ultra Wideband chip
- Capacity 64GB (v 32GB on Series 8)
A lot of those features are useful to me. No one ever talks about the extended storage capacity that Series 9 introduced but it allows for 32GB of music storage (versus 16GB on Series 8) useful if you're working out without your iPhone nearby, plus the Maps app allows for offline maps to be stored locally on the watch itself and they can be approx 1 GB each. Having Siri work without a network connection will be useful too.
Same, I actually cancelled my Series 10 order. I'm not a big Apple Watch user anyway. Honestly the thing I use it for the most is keeping track of my heart rate over the course of day. I don't even wear my watch every day, only when I'm going to be away from home for an extended period of time or when I explicitly need fitness tracking. I didn't even need my Series 8 when I bought it tbh. Heck I could probably get away with using my shattered Series 4 LOL
I like the idea of a thinner, bigger screen Series 10 and it's easy to convince myself I would use it more but every time I've bought an Apple Watch since the first one I ever had it's just sat on the charger for most of the week.
I say that but who knows I'll probably impulse purchase when I see one in the Apple Store lol.
I like the idea of a thinner, bigger screen Series 10 and it's easy to convince myself I would use it more but every time I've bought an Apple Watch since the first one I ever had it's just sat on the charger for most of the week.
I say that but who knows I'll probably impulse purchase when I see one in the Apple Store lol.
And honestly I'm glad that's the case (get it? because of the watch case design being mostly the same.... sorry)
In all seriousness, I like the rounded soft, slim design of Apple Watch and Series 10 seems to improve upon that formula/DNA. I don't want a squared off case and I don't want a round watch (considerably less functional when it's round). The gigantic body and sharp edges of the Ultra are the biggest reason I don't want an Ultra despite some of the useful features such as the action button and better battery life. I like that my Series 8 doesn't get in the way.
I can't really imagine what kind of 'radical' change Apple could make to the silhouette without compromising on comfort.
What I would like to see is a screen that stretches to the very edge of the case and curves down into the chassis, so looking at your wrist makes it appear as if a screen is simply spilling down onto your wrist (basically imagine those over the top 'zero bezel' renders you see from those clickbait thumbnails). I think there's a way to do it so that the stuff you interact with remains in the flat area of the screen (like it is now) and the parts of the screen that curve down into the chassis are used for immersive background, like how Apple uses the entire iPhone screen in the Weather app (the background adds context/color/immersion but the utilities are in the usable area of the screen.
There has been very small year-to-year changes since the series 4 or 5 i think. But going from a 4 to a 9 should be a huge upgrade.