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Our most recent smartwatch Series Eleven introduces the feature many users really need from their wrist gadget: improved power endurance.

Apart from that, this latest version functions as a straightforward upgrade for the Series 10, maintaining similarity in styling, size measurements and functions, with many of improvements derived from watchOS.

This new model additionally priced £30 lower for UK customers, available from £369 (449 euros/$399 USD/A$679), and sits above the fresh redesigned £219 Watch SE for entry-level buyers and the £749 Ultra 3 for top-tier users.

Appearance and Screen

Similar to the previous Series Ten, this updated version comes in at 9.7mm thick, resulting in a trim appearance to the wrist, convenient to tuck beneath shirt sleeves and more comfortable at night.

The 2,000nit display remains sufficiently luminous for seeing in various lighting, staying legible at various perspectives, making taking a peek to check time or messages straightforward.

Protecting the display with glass reportedly significantly more durable compared to previous models, while not reaching the hardness of sapphire crystal, that's only available on the pricier titanium versions.

Power and Endurance

The new watch incorporates the same S10 chip from the previous generation while adding support for cellular 5G capability plus enhanced signal strength when you're away from civilization.

The batteries show improvement in capacity approximately 10 percent for the 42mm and larger versions in that order.

The 46mm managed an impressive two days during evaluation with sleep tracking when not used for fitness.

The majority of users can nearly monitor 48 hours including sleep prior to requiring power, requiring just over an hour using a 20W or greater power adaptor (available separately), hitting about three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

Should you participate in workouts, it will last about eight hours while recording, adequate time for endurance events or two.

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: 42mm and 46mm
• Case thickness: 9.7mm
• Device weight: about 30g or 37g
• Computing engine: S10 processor
• Memory: 64GB
• Software platform: watchOS Twenty-Six
• Water resistance: 50 meters (5 atmospheres)
• Health tracking: HR, ECG, spO2, Temperature, Depth gauge, mic, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, Altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth technology, wifi 4, NFC, Ultra-wideband, 5G cellular option

Operating System Updates

This new model includes updated software, functioning on every version since the sixth generation and later.

It adds the latest transparent design elements, resulting in most elements semi-translucent, along with two new watch faces: a big digital interface called Flow that responds to movement and an analogue face named Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into their own dials.

The most impressive innovation is the wrist-flick gesture, requiring swift turning your wrist away from you then returning to dismiss things and go back to the home screen.

The feature operates without lifting your arm to look at the watch, enabling wearers to dismiss alarms through simple motion of the wrist.

Health and Fitness Tracking

The Apple Watch incorporates an extensive wellness tracking package of capabilities found in earlier versions plus including a couple of new features and revamped exercise application.

Hypertension alerts look for signs of elevated BP over a 30-day period, alerting users to seek medical advice if cardiac metrics suggests you may have underlying conditions.

Enhanced sleep analysis improves sleep monitoring more straightforward to analyze, comparable to rivals from Google, Samsung and others.

Daily upon waking the device displays a score out of 100 separated into components in three sections: duration, bedtime and interruptions, which are all easy to understand and viewable in the Health app through your mobile as well.

Workout buddy serves as automated guidance that uses your past activity records to give you encouragement during fitness activities, like detecting existing workout history regular activity patterns and exertion levels you put it.

Additionally offering audible heads-up when you reach specific targets during exercise, including certain tempo, heart rate, range, period or additional measurements.

There is a choice among three vocal styles, delivering verbal guidance over Bluetooth headphones synced to the wearable for multiple workout categories, such as walking, jogging or biking.

But, this feature depends on if you also carry your iPhone 15 Pro or later with you, which I found irritating prompting abandonment of this capability preventing inconvenience with a phone on runs.

Eco-Friendly Features

Reports indicate energy storage maintains more than 1,000 full power cycles with at least 80% of initial performance with replacement available for £95.

Fixings require from £295 to £389 depending on the model.

Materials include significant amounts of recycled material featuring aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, lithium, uncommon minerals, steel, tin elements, {titanium|