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This latest smartwatch Series Eleven delivers the feature many users truly desire from a smartwatch: extended battery performance.

Apart from that, the updated device acts as an immediate successor to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in appearance, size measurements and features, with the majority of enhancements originating from watchOS.

The latest version additionally £30 cheaper for UK customers, costing from 369 pounds (449 euros/$399/679 Australian dollars), positioned above the newly revamped £219 Watch SE at the low end alongside the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.

Build and Interface

Like last year's Series Ten, the latest iteration measures only 9.7mm thick, creating a trim appearance to the wrist, easy to sneak under cuffs and more comfortable during sleep.

Featuring a 2,000nit interface remains sufficiently luminous for seeing in various lighting, maintaining readability when viewed from different angles, which makes taking a peek to check time or messages easy.

Protecting the display with glass which is twice as scratch resistant as before, though not quite as tough of sapphire crystal, which is reserved on the pricier titanium models.

Capability and Runtime

The updated wearable features the same S10 chip from the previous generation but now supports cellular 5G capability plus enhanced signal strength when you're exploring remote areas.

Power cells show improvement in size approximately 10 percent in the 42 millimeter and 46mm watches correspondingly.

Larger model managed an impressive 48 hours in our assessment with sleep tracking excluding workout sessions.

Typical wearers should approximately be able to track 48 hours including sleep prior to requiring power, which takes about 66 minutes employing 20W or greater power adaptor (not included), reaching approximately 70% in 30 minutes.

Should you engage in exercise, it will last approximately eight hours while recording, which is long enough for endurance events or extended activities.

Device Details

• Case size: 42mm and 46mm
• Case thickness: Under 10mm
• Mass: about 30g or 37g
• Chip: S10
• Internal storage: 64GB
• Operating system: latest watchOS
• Water resistance: 50 meters (5ATM)
• Monitoring features: Heart rate, Electrocardiogram, spO2, Temperature, Depth gauge, Microphone, Speaker, Near-field communication, Global navigation, Compass, Altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, optional 5G

watchOS 26 Features

The latest device ships with the latest watchOS, functioning on each iteration since the sixth generation and subsequent.

This includes recently introduced Liquid Glass design, which makes interface components partially transparent, and adds additional display styles: a large digital face called Flow reacting to motion and traditional watch face called Exactograph, which breaks out chronological elements into individual displays.

The standout addition 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.

It works even without raising your wrist to check the display, enabling wearers to turn off alerts with a satisfying flick with your hand.

Wellness Monitoring

The wearable device features an extensive fitness analysis system of capabilities found in earlier versions while introducing several fresh capabilities and a redesigned exercise application.

High BP warnings monitor indicators of hypertension through extended monitoring, notifying you to get yourself checked out when pulse information indicates potential undetected issues.

Updated sleep scoring improves sleep monitoring more straightforward to analyze, like other brands from multiple companies.

Daily upon waking the screen presents a score out of 100 that is broken down in three sections: duration, bedtime and interruptions, all being straightforward and viewable through the wellness application on the iPhone as well.

Fitness assistant serves as automated guidance utilizing your past activity records to deliver pep talks before and after workouts, such as recognising existing workout history regular activity patterns and the level of effort you put it.

Additionally offering audible heads-up upon achieving certain milestones during exercise, like specific speed, pulse rate, distance, time or further statistics.

Options include among three vocal styles, which speak to you through connected audio paired with the device for multiple workout categories, including walking, running or cycling.

But, this feature depends on if you have with you your iPhone 15 Pro or later during activities, proving inconvenient sufficient to avoid the function preventing inconvenience carrying mobile devices.

Sustainability and Environment

Apple says the battery should last more than 1,000 complete charging sessions maintaining 80 percent of initial performance and is replaceable at £95 cost.

Service pricing ranges from £295 to £389 depending on the model.

It contains over forty percent sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt, copper elements, glass, gold, lithium, rare earth elements, steel, tin elements, {titanium|