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So what new Apple Watch are you ordering?
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Nice - watch is 9/24 and iPhone 17 Air is 9/25. Hoping for a bump up.
Ever since I bought that band, I never looked for any other; it was the perfect one for me, yes, sometimes it'll pinch my hair in my hairy arm, but it is still sexy
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Last min tonight decided to pre order two watches also. Series 11 for my wife and I. Delivery in 9/19 the phones were part of the pre order glitch so those updated to 9/19 from 9/25.
Having placed an order for the Apple Watch Ultra 3 🙂
Wife has an old AW S6 that has battery capacity at 76% now. Skipped the Prime Day deals on the S10, but I'm thinking going that route. Why pay over $100 more for only (supposedly) better battery life? Espeically when she somehow still makes it through the day with the degraded S6. Really weak update this year on the S11.
Now that we have all the details, no new watch for me this year. My AWU2 Black is still at 99% battery after a year, and there are no "gotta have it" features on the AWU3 for me.
My midnight 42mm s9 is getting given to a family member, that’s my excuse for ordering an s11😂. Gone for black with graphite milanese, gone for the 46mm having always gone for the smallest size before I’m hoping I won’t regret it, have only got small wrists.
AWU3 Black Titanium to replace my 2023 AWU2 Natural Titanium. Pickup scheduled for September 19th at the Apple Store.
oh I had that one, it was pulling my haird and it was sharp at the edges! I took it it back to the Apple store and I swapped it for the the Ti Milanese Loop and it is much better (I paid $100)Ever since I bought that band, I never looked for any other; it was the perfect one for me, yes, sometimes it'll pinch my hair in my hairy arm, but it is still sexy
The original Milanese Loop and I had a pretty chill relationship—no deadly sharp edges, no wrist scars, nothing dramatic. But every so often, my forest of arm hair would get a little too adventurous. One brave strand would lean over the edge like, “Guys, I’m gonna check out what’s happening down there!” …and then SNAP! The band would grab it like a ninja with a grappling hook.
Cue me flinching, wincing, and trying to casually play it off in public, like, “Nope, didn’t just get ambushed by my own watch, everything’s totally fine here!” Meanwhile, deep down, my arm hair is filing an HR complaint against the Milanese Loop for workplace harassment.
It’s basically a love story—me, the stylish watch, and my overly dramatic arm hair, locked in an endless battle of beauty versus pain.
Probably S10 on sale, which will replace a S6 with 73% battery capacity
picking up my ultra aw3 this weekend around 11:1130 am. can they setup celluer for you at the store or have to go to your local phone carrier???
Going to use my Ultra 1 until I can’t anymore, and likely will switch to a smart ring. Ideally one made by Apple, but who knows.
Just ordered an Ultra 3 Natural Titanium to replace my Ultra 2….I’m excited!
AWU 3 black titanium, paired with a S10 slate titanium refurb I picked up this summer. I’ve really liked going back to a Series watch this summer (from an AWU 2 natural) but for the watch faces.
Anyone else think some of the bands look better in videos than they do in the official product images? Maybe I just don't like the watch face colors they chose for the main product photos, and it threw off the vibe of a couple of the bands for me.
For the green trail, the outer edge seems way less neon green than the product photo. I had ruled out this band because I didn't like the neon green color at the edge, but seeing videos of it, now I think I should have gotten it!
For the light blue alpine, it seems to look slightly darker and less turquoise in videos than it does in the product photos, and the pink watch face may have also been throwing me off.
Also, it sucks that a) Apple doesn't send all of the new bands out to reviewers, and b) no tech websites took and posted high quality photos of the new bands, which is wild to me... like, one of your primary jobs as a tech journalist is to take and publish photos of new products.
For the green trail, the outer edge seems way less neon green than the product photo. I had ruled out this band because I didn't like the neon green color at the edge, but seeing videos of it, now I think I should have gotten it!
For the light blue alpine, it seems to look slightly darker and less turquoise in videos than it does in the product photos, and the pink watch face may have also been throwing me off.
Also, it sucks that a) Apple doesn't send all of the new bands out to reviewers, and b) no tech websites took and posted high quality photos of the new bands, which is wild to me... like, one of your primary jobs as a tech journalist is to take and publish photos of new products.
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When I was choosing the colors of the bands I would be buying for my preordered Series 11 (both from Apple's website and eBay/Woot), I very much spent a lot of time searching up "real" photos and videos of the bands (searching the color name in the Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever. discussion here helped a lot). Luckily, I wasn't very interested in the new colors this collection so FOMO for that didn't take over. I do agree that finding realistic lighting and angles of different band colors should be way easier to access though.
I’ve ordered my Ultra 3 with the black ocean band, but I really want the anchor blue so I might see if they can exchange it on the 19th when I pick my watch up