I wear the smaller size Apple Watch.
I wonder if there’ll be a smaller AWU?
Future Apple product directions are notoriously difficult to predict, but this doesn’t seem likely to me. Rather, I’d expect the design aesthetic of the regular watches to change. I’d predict a “regular” Apple Watch with a flat screen and thin bezels before a “mini Ultra."
But, again, it’s hard to know.
One thing to be confident of: there won’t be a design refresh of the Ultra for at least a couple years. But a design refresh of the standard lineup next year wouldn’t surprise me.
Happy with my Ultra after 5 days. Been using a WI-FI S5 watch mainly due to poor battery life of cellular version up to now. Really loving the bright screen.
I’d buy a slightly bigger and thinner version if possible. Also software wise, I want to play audio book from my watch without using headphones at home.
Thinner would be very nice, yes. Personally, for me, it’s plenty big enough.
But … one thing I’d really like that I’m now starting to hope might come sooner rather than later … I have mild hearing loss and wear hearing aids. (I also have mild astigmatism and wear glasses; I can function just fine without either, but both are equally annoying to be without.)
The iPhone streams audio to the hearing aids just fine, but it won’t use the microphones in them for audio pickup. And the watch won’t talk directly to them at all. This isn’t a limitation specific to this brand or model; this is how all hearing aids work on iPhones.
So, what I want is a device with the same form factor as what I have now, and with the full audiologist-configurable spectral adjustment they have, but with Apple’s magic earphone chip so that, as far as the phone and watch are concerned, they’re regular AirPods, complete with “Hey Siri” and the rest.
With the recent change to making hearing aids over-the-counter devices, this finally seems a reasonable hope.
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