Teardown Suggests Apple Watch Series 5 Components are Close to Identical to Series 4

myapple2019 said:
To me it is no brainer to upgrade from series 4. Having to tap or raise your wrist and having no display like a mini box on a wrist does not make the series 4 or older a watch but more a wrist computer with a watch feature. This behavior is not normal for a watch even for a digital watch. It is very annoying and I had enough for it. So, after the series 5 was announced, a “normal” watch of Apple Watch was born, it was time to leave the wrist computer behind . I finally get a “normal” watch with computer capabilities.
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Exactly! The AOD removes all friction from the overall experience.
 
Absolutely loving my Series 5, but a little surprised with battery life using AOD. Took my watch off charger at 5am and by just shy of 8pm I’m down to 22% without much usage outside of notifications. With that said, AOD is a much nicer feature than I anticipated. I figured I would just keep it off, but I’ll take the hit on battery life. Also having owned two Space Grey watches previously I went with silver aluminum and I’m glad I did. Looks great.
 
I’m not shocked, I mean there is only so much you can do to a watch. The thing pretty much does it all right now. I wouldn’t exactly expect them to start having folding screens... maybe I should, but who knows.
 
Hieveryone said:
I still feel like apple is nickel and diming us for features that could come sooner
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Then you literally don’t have the concept of how operates Apple then. They always ration features/technology when it comes to introducing different things every year.

For example: Could they have possibly introduce an always on display, LTE, water resistance all in the same year for the Apple Watch? Absolutely. But of course, they have to give the consumer reason(s) upgrade, why pack all the technology in one year when they realize they want consumers to upgrade more often than not.
 
dan9700 said:
First Apple product in years I haven’t brought on launch and gonna skip its much darker brightness compared to S4 my mate has it and the beta didn’t help it’s not good, also the fact the s5 chip has no speed improvements is a no sale from me, always on is a gimmick
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Not really how hard is it to touch the screen or move it to look at it, the screen on max brightness is much dimmer than s4
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MrExitStrategy said:
Is it dimmer than S4?? I thought it only gets dimmer when it's on the Always On/Low Power mode; otherwise the display is pretty much identical to Series 4... No? Doesn't make any sense for it to get worse...
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He’s wrong. The screen at max brightness is identical to Series 4. Series 5 does however seem to dim itself more when in darker rooms than Series 4 does. So no, not a dimmer max brightness but a more aggressive auto-brightness.
 
Steve686 said:
The future has GOT to include a solar cell to charge throughout the day. Even if it is incorporated into a watch band.
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Very 1978

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FreeSpeech1st said:
The customer feels more like  watch series 4s and technically, AOD should work on series 4 as well after updating to watchOS 6.1
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Who is “the customer”?

How do you expect WatchOS 6.1 to add the new display controller with adjustable refresh to the series 4?
 
Patriot24 said:
This is a bad title/article. From the article itself:
  • Always-on display
  • New ambient light sensor
  • Better display drivers
  • New power management chip
  • Compass
  • Bigger battery
  • Double storage
  • Minor changes to connectors for the Taptic Engine, display, and battery
In other words, not "Close to Identical." I get it that it isn't an earth-shattering update, but people tripping over themselves to claim this is the Series 4 with a "5" slapped on it are being disingenuous.
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Maybe Series 4s would’ve been better.
 
Upgraded from S3 and for me I have mixed opinions. Was rocky at the beginning with the battery drain at about 10% an hour. Echoing what others have done this is now at ~3%/hour. When I had my S3, I never really worried about how long the watch would run for or started disabling things to give it more life. To be honest, if I had an S4 I wouldn't upgrade... there is very little that has changed and if you can live without the AOD, I'd recommend saving some money. Good chance that next years model will be an overhall and considering the similarities between S4 and S5, I figure everyone (including S5 owners) would upgrade to that. I

IMO, stick with the S4 if you have it... anything older upgrade to the S5 if you want AOD or save yourself some money and buy an S4. I'm just waiting for official sleep tracking... fingers crossed for next year!
 
Steve686 said:
Really.

Because now there is literally no delay in seeing what time it is ‘speeding’ up how fast that info is relayed to you.

All how you interpret what ‘speed’ actually means.
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But not really,

because it is a bit more delayed vs series 4 - always seeing the time, sure I'll give you that, you can now sort of see it at angles and don't have to obnoxiously flick your wrist up in front of others, its less "rude" in that regard...but for all intents and purposes, people use their apple watches for other things, such as notifications from various apps and texts, and for those things you still have to raise your wrist to see notifications and all that. It takes a half second to switch from 1hz to 60hz, and this is not as fast as the series 4

have you used the series 5 next to a series 4? Try it. It's something Apple will probably fix in a future model. The series 5 model is a wee bit more sluggish, and once you see it, it's hard to un-see. The Apple rep tried to play it off, but it's pretty obvious once you see it.

Worth the upgrade from a series 4? Not at all. For anyone else, sure. I think (most) series 4 owners are content keeping their money and putting towards the next real upgrade.

At least until something with more power and more battery comes along.
Reviews, both official and from user reviews, have been disappointed with the battery. A lot of Series 3 people around the net have noticed the battery life on the series 5 is worse, and the series 4 had better battery than the series 3. Given that the series 5 battery is a meagre 1.4% larger, and has the same GPU and CPU as the series 4, this is a watch targeted at people who have older Apple watches...like series 0 to 2 and are looking for an upgrade.
 
nordique said:
But not really,

because it is a bit more delayed vs series 4 - always seeing the time, sure I'll give you that, you can now sort of see it at angles and don't have to obnoxiously flick your wrist up in front of others, its less "rude" in that regard...but for all intents and purposes, people use their apple watches for other things, such as notifications from various apps and texts, and for those things you still have to raise your wrist to see notifications and all that. It takes a half second to switch from 1hz to 60hz, and this is not as fast as the series 4

have you used the series 5 next to a series 4? Try it. It's something Apple will probably fix in a future model. The series 5 model is a wee bit more sluggish, and once you see it, it's hard to un-see. The Apple rep tried to play it off, but it's pretty obvious once you see it.

Worth the upgrade from a series 4? Not at all. For anyone else, sure. I think (most) series 4 owners are content keeping their money and putting towards the next real upgrade.

At least until something with more power and more battery comes along.
Reviews, both official and from user reviews, have been disappointed with the battery. A lot of Series 3 people around the net have noticed the battery life on the series 5 is worse, and the series 4 had better battery than the series 3. Given that the series 5 battery is a meagre 1.4% larger, and has the same GPU and CPU as the series 4, this is a watch targeted at people who have older Apple watches...like series 0 to 2 and are looking for an upgrade.
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lol. All that typing yet Apple has never actually designated the word that the “s” stands for. Speed, successor, superior, secondary...take your pick and...interpret.
 
The processor may be the same, but the device has been given a ton of feature updates, I wouldn't sell it short.
 
dan9700 said:
no one in the real world will ever think wait a need a compass lol such a silly feature
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As an Apple Watch app developer since Series 0, a magnetometer is the one missing feature I’ve most wanted for years.
Now that the Watch finally has a magnetometer like the iPhone, it can be used with location and accelerometer to make pointing apps.

Glad you aren’t designing the hardware!
 
nt5672 said:
Innovation at its best. On the other hand there are so many "I have to have the latest Apple fashion accessory" people that you really can't blame Apple for catering to ignorant indoctrinated buyers. After all they spend millions to make that a reality.
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Or... it added a feature a lot of people wanted, so they're buying it to get that feature.
 
dan9700 said:
First Apple product in years I haven’t brought on launch and gonna skip its much darker brightness compared to S4 my mate has it and the beta didn’t help it’s not good, also the fact the s5 chip has no speed improvements is a no sale from me, always on is a gimmick
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Not really how hard is it to touch the screen or move it to look at it, the screen on max brightness is much dimmer than s4
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The number one requested feature for the best selling smart watch (or any watch for that matter) in the entire world is a "gimmick." LOL.
 
MrExitStrategy said:
Is it dimmer than S4?? I thought it only gets dimmer when it's on the Always On/Low Power mode; otherwise the display is pretty much identical to Series 4... No? Doesn't make any sense for it to get worse...
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I have an AW5 and I have found the AOD is bright enough that I turned off the Raise to Wake feature. Bonus!

With Raise2Wake off, reduce motion on, hey Siri off, a bunch of needless notifications disabled and Theater mode on while sleeping; -> after my first full 24hr day of using the watch (got it yesterday, no exercises recorded) - the battery is at 40%. So all in all, pretty good IMO for Day 1.
 
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