Apple Watch Series 3: Unboxing & Review By DetroitBORG

What's up guys, Mike here, the Detroit Borg, and today we're checking out the brand-new Apple Watch, Series 3, which is the replacement for the series to watch and joins the now cheaper series.1 watch the big news with series 3 is that it's available in two versions: we have one without cellular and one with cellular. So with cellular. You can actually use your Apple Watch independently of the iPhone, so you can leave your iPhone at home and still have full internet connectivity from your Apple Watch and place and receive phone calls and text messages from the watch using your existing phone number. In addition to cellular series, 3 also picks up a new dual-core s3 CPU, which is much faster, which enables some new features such as Siri with voice feedback. Also, new is a barometric altimeter which keeps track of elevations. So it knows if you're, climbing a flight of steps and can keep track of that with your Fitness data, so I'm actually taking a look at three Apple watches two of them in aluminum, so one of them is the new gold, color plus Space Gray and my favorite.

The version I'm going to be wearing day-to-day, which is the new edition Apple Watch in ceramic gray, so get into the unboxing of the aluminum Apple watches, there's a difference in the packaging because we have a new band. That's called the sport loop, which means it can't be laid flat. So we get a square box like the more premium stainless steel and Apple Watch Edition boxes, so it looks similar, but it's still quite a bit different. If you get the sport band, those come in a long skinny box like we're, used to see for the aluminum watches, so we can see both of our gold and space grandpa watches with that very distinctive red dot. On the digital crown, of course, we have plastics surrounding it now.

Another new feature here is that we have the new sport loop, which is sort of a fabric Velcro band personally I, actually really like this band. It's much softer and very comfortable to wear and can be sized exactly for your wrist. The other great thing about the aluminum watches is that they're designed specifically to match the iPhone 8, which matches the new gold on the iPhone 8, as well as the darker Space Gray, which the iPhone finally matches lifting the tray which is made out of a pressed paper. So the entire packaging, in this case is biodegradable and recyclable, we'll find all the accessories which includes our paperwork, which highlights the major features and how to charge the Apple Watch. Of course, the accessories in the bottom of the box are pretty familiar.

We have a 5 watt, USB wall adapter, as well as the inductive charger, which is white plastic. In this case, and as always, this just magnetically attaches to the back crystal of the Apple Watch and charges inductively next up is the Apple Watch edition, which is a much more premium experience overall right down to the pull tab for release in the plastic shroud over the box. Once we lift the box first thing we see here is the hard shell case and to remove the plastic, there's a pull tab there to take it off, and then we're left with that white glossy hard shell case. So once we pop open the case, we can see very nicely presented the Apple Watch edition with a stunning gray color. So the first thing you notice when handling the Apple Watch edition, is that it feels much heavier than the aluminum watch.

That's also true of the stainless steel. They definitely feel much heavier and much more premium. The other thing, especially with this dark ceramic, is that it has a much more jewel-like finish. It actually looks like a polished gem compared to aluminum or even stainless steel. It actually matches the sapphire crystal on the front.

So if you look at the sapphire crystal next to the IN glass you'll see that it's a little more reflective and I really like the way it looks in terms of the accessories. Even the paperwork is nicer. So of course we get the Quick Start Guide, but we also get this colorful pamphlet that highlights the manufacturing process. For the ceramic, Apple Watch actually took a look at this when I did the review of the white Apple Watch edition from last year. It's just been updated for the ceramic gray, as well as the red dot along the digital crown.

Also included is the other sport band for resizing this for a smaller wrist and again this is a sport band. Although the rivet on the sport band is also ceramic to match, the watch included only with the Apple Watch edition is the magnetic charging gun. This is a $79 accessory. You can buy for any Apple Watch, but we get it thrown in here now. It's kind of a nice accessory actually use one on my desk, so this cushions your Apple Watch while it's on the charger and keeps it upright, which is especially nice for nightstand mode.

So this will actually turn your Apple Watch into sort of night clock. So you can quickly check the time just by tapping the Apple Watch, but that's not the only charging option. We still have the magnetic puck in the bottom of the box alongside a lightning cable which we'll need for the charging dock. Now, the wireless charging puck in this case is stainless steel. So it's a little more premium than the one that comes with the aluminum watch.

It is important to keep in mind that all versions of the series three watch have the exact same hardware. The only French really comes down to the casing: material and the glass on the front. So in the case of the aluminum watches, this is made out of IN glass, as opposed to the sapphire crystal on the stainless steel and ceramic watches. But if you look at the crystal on the back of the watches, they're both made out of ceramic with the same heart rate sensor toward the center and surrounding the crystal on the back is the specs for the Apple Watch. You know what series it is.

You know what size its casing: material, the fact that it's water resistant up to 50 meters. Furthermore, you know whether you have IN glass or sapphire glass on the front as well as the ceramic back panel and of course, if the red dot isn't clear enough, there is an LTE badge on the back as well. There are a few design tweaks, the most prominent being the red digital crown, which is unique to the LTE model, but we also have some minor tweaks. So, for example, we have a larger speaker grille compared to the series to watch also along the side. We have a microphone, and previously we had an air vent, but this time it's the barometric altimeter, the air vent has been relocated to the watchband slot.

So if you remove the watch band, you'll see the pinhole right where the model number used to be and the one design change that Apple mentioned is the thicker crystal along the back. But if you look side-by-side, that's actually hard to tell the difference. We also have these same OLED display available in 38 or 42 millimeters, and it gets extra bright in direct sunlight. So you can see it outdoors. It's still water resistant up to 50 meters.

So you can't take the swimming, and it even sounds a tone to eject water from the speaker when you're done swimming watch. Bands are extremely easy to replace it can push these buttons and swap them out, and if you look inside, the grooves you'll see the serial number and some model information setting up the Apple Watch has changed a bit with iOS, 11 and watch us, for in fact, all I have to do is bring your phone near the watch, and it automatically initiates the pairing process. Pairing process still involves scanning the code. That's thrown up on the Apple Watch with a camera of your iPhone. Once you do that you have the option to restore from a backup or set up as a new watch, but if you have the cellular version, you're prompted to set it up for the first time effectively.

This takes you to your carrier to sign up for the service. Generally speaking, that's $10 per month and as I mentioned, it uses your existing phone number on your Apple Watch, and you don't have to swap out the SIM, because an embedded electronics in is built into the watch. Unfortunately, the Apple Watch does not support roaming between different carrier network, so this may not be a great solution if you're traveling a lot next up. Let's take a quick look at the interface on the Apple Watch, so we have the watch faces, and we can swipe across on the watch faces to jump between different launch faces. Now, if you're on the main watch face, you just swipe down to get to your notifications, and you can scroll through them.

You can also use your finger on the screen to navigate through your notifications. If we swipe up from the bottom, we can get to the control center. So with the control center, we can see what device we're currently connected to so right now. This watch is connected to my phone, but if it was connected to Wi-Fi, only I would see a Wi-Fi indicator and if it was connected to LTE, I would see an LTE indicator now, because this is a cellular watch. I have a toggle here for cellular data, so I can toggle that on and off, if I want.

Of course, we have airplane mode, we have our battery status, and we can enter power reserve mode to save some battery life. Now we can also ping our iPhone. So if we've lost our iPhone somewhere close by, if we ping it, it will send a tone. Another neat new feature with watch OS 4 is the flashlight, so this will turn the screen into a flashlight. Now this gets brighter when you twist the watch away from you, so it's not going to blast your face with a bright light.

We also have different flashing modes. So if you want to be more visible at nighttime when you're running you can enter this mode, we also have a red light and just like the series to watch this is water resistant up to 50 meters. So if you go swimming, you might want to enter this water lock melt. So this will prevent the screen from being activated when you're in the water and in order to wake up the device. Well, you have to do is escape this mode by swiping on the digital crown until you get a tone, and this will eject water from the speaker, grille and lastly, we have an airplay icon.

This allows us to connect the Apple Watch's audio to other devices such as a Bluetooth speaker or a set of headphones so pressing in the digital crown, takes you to the watch face or to the app screen so on the app screen. We have this grid view. Now, if you 3d touch on the app screen, this will take you to a new option with watch OS 4, which is Listed. So if you prefer a list view instead of the grid, you have this option, and you can also get back to grid view. If you want, the app selection reflects the apps that are also available on the iPhone, just sort of rescale to the size of the Apple Watch.

We also get a news app for the first time on the Apple Watch, and this will give you a few brief stories to take a look at. We could also customize this, so if you tap and hold, you can move them around like so and if you want to remove them or on the slalom, you have to go to the watch app on Iowa's eleven now to get the Series, you can long press on the digital crown. What's the weather like tomorrow, so you can see we get voice feedback. In addition to on-screen feedback, we can also wake up Siri with our wake-up command: hey Siri! What's the weather tomorrow in Toronto, pressing the side button brings us to the app switcher, so you can see our recently accessed stamps on the screen, and we can scroll through them. If you scroll all the way down, you can also jump back to all of your apps and I can also swipe to dismiss these by swiping left and clicking remove double pressing.

The side button will take you to Apple Pay and if you long press, this will take you to the power off option and the emergency SOS option which will call your emergency services and that's where LTE really comes in handy in terms of the launch phases. This is the default one, and you can highly customize it just tap and hold until you get to the customize option. So if customized, we can change the style and there's quite a few things. We can take a look at if you want to go more minimal, you can. We can also swipe on the screen to get to our hands, so we can change the color or style of the hands.

Furthermore, we can also customize the complications on the screen. So when we tap on them, we can select new ones and there's quite a few of them. So we can do things like moon phase. The music app messages happen more, so it was quite a few of them. Some of them are just shortcuts to other apps.

Some of them do give you some feedback, such as the moon phase. Now, if you want to quickly jump to work out, you have that as well or select something else like the weather down below. We have our activities, which includes our Fitness tracking, as well as our alarms. Our battery status and more one of the other new watch faces with watch. Os 4 is the kaleidoscope watch face.

I can adjust the kaleidoscope background by tap and hold here. I can customize this, so I can change this from facets to radial. Furthermore, I also have rosette. So if you want different kaleidoscope, styles, you can select that swipe the screen to adjust the complications and more. We also get the Siri watch face with a Serie B in the upper left corner, which takes us directly to Siri, so we don't have to use the makeup command or hold the side button in terms of what's on the Siri watch face.

Basically, these are cars that are sort of automatically added to our feed here. So they relate to our weather, some of our photographs that we may have taken recently as well as things we might be interested in, such as the sunset and sunrise time. You can customize this as well, so if you go to customize, you can adjust whether you want the Siri icon to be there or something else. We also have our deign time, so you want to change this format. You can, we also get a Toy Story watch face with some characters fully animated.

All I have to do is tap the screen to cycle between the different characters you can pick from when it comes to cellular connectivity. Performance I didn't really run into any issues, but I know a lot of people are so on T-Mobile, although I don't have the reception on the watch as I do on my phone, at least according to the indicators on the screen, I really didn't run into any issues. It was just as fast and reliable as if it was connected to my phone or Wi-Fi, but using LTE will definitely shorten your battery life. So, although is giving maybe a workday out of cellular connectivity only about eight hours of battery life, but that's with using services such as streaming, podcasts or music at least part of that day. There's a lot of benefits to using an Apple Watch, I really like receiving notifications right on my watch and I can easily command Siri all without touching my iPhone, so that keeps the screen off on my iPhone, which helps to conserve battery life and bury life on the Apple Watch has always been excellent.

I get at least one full day out of it, but I always charge it at night to make sure I get through a full day. It's also a very convenient and quick way of unlocking my Mac, so I didn't even touch my touch ID sensors on my MacBook Pros. This is also one of the best fitness trackers out there. So this keeps track of all of your activity during the day, and you can also quickly start a workout just by commanding Siri now, for me, I think cellular connectivity on the Apple Watch is more of a luxury than a necessity. There's very few situations where I might actually use this.

So in the end, Series 3 isn't a huge upgrade from series 2. Of course, we get the faster processor and, if you care about it cellular, but for me my favorite new feature is Siri with voice feedback. I use Siri a lot on my watch and if it works more reliably, I think that's even better. Alright, you guys enjoyed this look at the series.3 Apple Watch. If you guys enjoyed this video, please give it a like to.

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