Apple Watch SE Review By PhoneArena

The Apple Watch Series 4 brought us an all-new design with smaller bezels and a more immersive display, plus it started taking the job of protecting your health seriously with features like an ECG and fault detection, then the Apple Watch Series 5 brought an always-on screen a feature that was sorely missing this year. The list of new features added to the toward series.6 is quite modest, a blood oxygen sensor and a faster processor, but there is something else: brand new, an Apple Watch with no new features. The brand-new Apple Watch. Sc is basically an Apple Watch Series 4 in terms of features. It doesn't have an always-on screen, and it doesn't have an ECG sensor. What it does have is a lower price.

This is not one for those looking to upgrade, but it might be the perfect Apple Watch for new buyers, and since there is nothing new, let's just jump into why you would want that. Watch the price the Apple Watch ac starts at just 280 dollars and, unlike previous watches, that charge you 100 extra for cellular connectivity. This one costs only 50 more. If you opt for the cellular model that you can use independently of your phone, this means you can now get a cellular Apple Watch, starting at just 330 dollars and that's a much better deal than the 500 starting price of a cellular Apple Watch Series 6. And that might just make the new Apple Watch SE the most popular watch.

So far, so I have been using the Apple Watch ac in the past week and there are two things that really stand out about it. The first one is just how comfortable it is. It is raised slightly above the wrist because of those sensors protruding out of the bottom, and it is extremely comfortable to wear even while working out and also while you sleep now. The straps that apple sells are also incredibly well-made, I'm using the nylon sports band, which feels lightweight and has a casual styling that looks appropriate both at work in your everyday shirt and jeans outfit or in the gym. There are new solo loop straps that come without a buckle and are even lighter and are easy to wiggle in and out, but they do cost fifty dollars extra and come in nine different sizes.

So it's hard to pick the right one without trying it on first yourself. Okay, one thing I find the Apple Watch is not, however, is a dress watch, especially this here Apple Watch SC, which is only available in aluminum casing. When I had to go out at night, and I wanted to look good, I would find myself reaching for my classic watch and the watch I see just didn't feel appropriate. The other thing is that the lack of an always-on screen is a bigger problem than it seems glancing to see. The time is what watches are all about, and here you have to deliberately flick your wrist to see the time and that gesture doesn't always work, and it can just be frustrating to not be able to see the time on your watch on the health and fitness front.

You lack an ECG sensor for electrocardiograms and the blood oxygen sensor. Both those require you to stay still for at least 15 seconds, while measuring, and I consider not necessary for most especially younger people. The watch ac, however, does have a heart rate, monitor that tracks your posts with great accuracy, and I'm glad to know that I can really trust this heart rate sensor, unlike cheaper wearables that are not so accurate. When setting up the watch, you can have it warn you about abnormally low or high heart rate, which could potentially help you avoid a serious health crisis, and that's also very nice to have the watch. IC also features an always-on altimeter, so your watch can tell your current elevation.

You can also just ask Siri. What's my elevation, it appears you're at 189 feet, so this is really cool, especially if you're a mountaineer sleep tracking is another new feature that comes not just to this watch SE, but to all apple watches, running on the latest. Software watch OS 7. Unfortunately, sleep tracking is extremely basic in its current form. You don't get any useful information about the stages of your sleep or any detailed breakdown of your sleep whatsoever.

You just get to see a bar graph of how much time you spend in bed. That's it now, while the Apple Watch, SE doesn't add. New fitness and sports features. Apple has continued, adding new types of workouts with the watch OS software, so the SE benefits from that, and you can now track a bunch of new workouts such as dancing, functional strength, training, core training and, more while apple watches, do support automatic workout detection. I found that would rarely work at all.

It's disappointing that you have to manually tap a button to start tracking a workout every single time, and the Apple Watch often fails to properly record even a walk on its own, while other gadgets do a much better job at automatic, workout detection, and there is also a bigger question here: do you really need to track your every single workout? It can be useful to know the details and stats about a run or a workout if you're a competitive athlete, but should the rest of us count every single calorie and track every single workout for me personally, that quickly got overwhelming and, yes, you can still swim with the watch. Se just like with every other Apple Watch. Since the power series 2. , the SC is fully water resistant and ready for you to take in the swimming pool. Just don't use it when you swim in salty water as that could damage it.

One thing that seems to never change with apple watches is battery life, all apple watches last about a day and a half with sleep tracking now available. However, battery life is more important than ever. Starting the day at around 7 30 am with a fully charged Apple Watch. I was able to go back home from work around 6 30 pm with around 60 on the battery meter, which is quite good by bedtime at around 11 30 pm. For me, the watch would usually still have more than 40 percent of juice left, depending on whether I work out in the evening and how long and then a full night of sleep would drain somewhere between 10 and 15 of the battery.

So I would wake up on the next day, with around 25 battery left now, with a little of variance that makes the Apple Watch ac, fully capable of going 24 hours off the charger and tracking your sleep. Hover is definitely not a two-day battery life watch, and you need to find time to recharge it by lunchtime on the next day for me working on a 9 to 5 desk job that was possible, but it felt like a chore for many other people. That would simply be impossible, and they would need to charge it up at night. So that means sleep tracking would not be possible on a daily basis. Overall, I still find battery life on the Apple Watch and the every day charging routine to be one of the worst parts of owning it fast charging would be a great thing to have as well.

Currently, charging is not too slow. It takes an hour to charge up the watch SE to about 80 percent and the full charge takes around an hour and a half at the end of the day. The Apple Watch SC is nothing new apple. Just to the Apple Watch, series 5 cut off the always-on functionality, reserving it for the more expensive series, 6 and also didn't include an ECG and a blood oxygen sensor. The series 6 also has a faster s6 processor, if you're considering that, but I doubt anyone would notice, as the s5 processor here also feels plenty fast.

What I find truly exciting is the possibility in 2020 finally to buy a fully independent Apple Watch with cellular connectivity that allows you to leave your phone at home for once at a much lower price. Now that costs just 330 dollars and that might just be enough to make the Apple Watch see one of the most popular smartwatches around, and this will do it for our review of the Apple Watch. Se, let me know what you think about this: affordable Apple Watch. Are you interested in buying it? Let me know in the comments my name is Vic. This is phone arena thumbs up.

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