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Our most recent wearable Series Eleven brings the feature the majority truly desire from their wrist gadget: improved power endurance.

Apart from that, this latest version acts as a direct replacement for the Series 10, maintaining similarity in appearance, size measurements and features, with many of improvements derived from software.

The Series 11 furthermore £30 cheaper in the UK, costing from 369 pounds (449 euros/399 dollars/679 Australian dollars), placed higher than the fresh redesigned Watch SE at £219 at the low end and the premium Ultra 3 at £749 in the premium segment.

Build and Interface

Following the design of tenth series, the new model measures only 9.7 millimeters in thickness, resulting in a trim appearance to the wrist, easy to sneak under cuffs and more comfortable overnight.

This 2,000-nit display remains sufficiently luminous for seeing in various lighting, remaining clear when viewed from different angles, enabling glancing down for timekeeping or alerts simple.

Protecting the display using glass that is double the scratch resistance than earlier versions, while not reaching the hardness compared to sapphire, that remains exclusive for the more expensive titanium editions.

Power and Endurance

This latest device utilizes identical S10 processor from the previous generation while adding support for 5G connectivity option plus enhanced signal strength for those times exploring remote areas.

Power cells show improvement in storage by 9% and 11% in the 42 millimeter and 46 millimeter models correspondingly.

The 46mm managed an impressive two days in testing including sleep monitoring excluding workout sessions.

Most people can nearly record two full days with overnight use until recharge becomes necessary, requiring about 66 minutes with a 20-watt or more powerful adapter (available separately), achieving around 70% in 30 minutes.

Should you go out for a run, the device can continue about eight hours while recording, sufficient duration for a marathon or two.

Technical Specifications

• Case size: Two size variants
• Device slimness: Under 10mm
• Device weight: approximately 30-37 grams
• Processor: S10 silicon
• Storage: 64GB capacity
• Watch OS: latest watchOS
• Water resistance: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
• Sensors: Heart rate, Electrocardiogram, Blood oxygen, temp, Depth gauge, Microphone, Speaker, NFC, GNSS, Compass, altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth technology, wifi 4, NFC capability, Ultra-wideband, optional 5G

Operating System Updates

This new model ships with the latest watchOS, compatible with all models from 2020's Series 6 and later.

It adds recently introduced Liquid Glass design, which makes most elements somewhat see-through, plus introducing two new watch faces: a large digital face named Flow sensitive to gestures and an analogue face titled Exactograph, that separates chronological elements into their own dials.

The standout addition is the wrist-flick gesture, requiring swift turning your hand backward and reversing to exit screens and return to the home screen.

It works even without looking at the device to look at the watch, allowing users to dismiss alarms through simple motion via arm movement.

Health and Fitness Tracking

The Apple Watch incorporates the same comprehensive health monitoring suite of tools found in earlier versions while introducing a couple of new features and a redesigned fitness program.

Hypertension alerts look for signs of high blood pressure through extended monitoring, notifying you to get yourself checked out if cardiac metrics shows possibility of underlying conditions.

The new sleep score metric makes Apple's sleep tracking simpler to understand, comparable to rivals from Google, Samsung and others.

Every day the screen presents a percentage score that is broken down into three categories: sleep length, timing and disturbances, which are all easy to understand and available via the health software through your mobile too.

Fitness assistant serves as automated guidance employing your previous workout data to deliver encouragement during fitness activities, including identifying previous running sessions regular activity patterns and exertion levels you put it.

It also provides audible heads-up upon achieving specific targets during exercise, including certain tempo, pulse rate, distance, time or other metrics.

There is a choice of three voices, providing audio feedback via wireless earbuds connected to your watch for one of 12 activities, like strolling, sprinting or cycling.

But, this feature depends on if you also carry your iPhone 15 Pro or later during activities, proving inconvenient enough that I would forgo the function eliminating hassle with a phone on runs.

Green Initiatives

The manufacturer states power cells will endure more than 1,000 full charge cycles with at least 80% of starting power with replacement available for ninety-five pounds.

Repairs cost from £295 to £389 according to device type.

The device incorporates more than 40% recycled material such as aluminum, cobalt, copper elements, glass, gold materials, lithium components, rare earth elements, steel parts, tin elements, {titanium|