Apple's Watch Series 11 Evaluation: Excellent Gesture Control and Extended Battery Performance
This latest smartwatch Series Eleven delivers the one thing many users truly desire from their wrist gadget: improved power endurance.
Otherwise, the new model functions as an immediate successor to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in design, proportions and functions, with the majority of its upgrades originating from software.
This new model is also priced £30 lower for UK customers, available from £369 (€449/399 dollars/A$679), positioned above the recently updated Watch SE at £219 at the low end alongside the £749 Ultra 3 in the premium segment.
Build and Interface
Like last year's Series 10, this updated version comes in at 9.7mm thick, resulting in a slim fit when worn, easy to sneak under cuffs and easier to wear during sleep.
The 2,000nit OLED screen remains sufficiently luminous for viewing indoors and out, remaining clear at various perspectives, which makes taking a peek to check time or notifications easy.
The surface features by glass that is twice as scratch resistant as before, though not quite as tough of sapphire crystal, which is reserved for the more expensive titanium versions.
Power and Endurance
The updated wearable incorporates identical S10 processor found in earlier versions but now supports cellular 5G capability and improved connectivity for those times away from civilization.
Energy storage show improvement in capacity significantly in the 42 millimeter and larger versions respectively.
Larger model lasted a good two days in our assessment featuring overnight analysis but without exercise.
Typical wearers will just about monitor 48 hours including sleep before needing a charge, which takes just over an hour with a 20-watt or more powerful adapter (sold separately), reaching approximately three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.
Should you participate in workouts, it will last approximately eight hours while recording, sufficient duration to complete marathons or extended activities.
Device Details
- Case size: Two size variants
- Case thickness: 9.7mm
- Weight: about 30g or 37g
- Computing engine: S10 processor
- Storage: 64GB capacity
- Operating system: watchOS Twenty-Six
- Waterproof rating: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
- Health tracking: Heart rate, ECG, Blood oxygen, Temperature, Depth gauge, mic, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, Altimeter
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, NFC capability, UWB, optional 5G
Operating System Updates
This new model comes preloaded with the latest watchOS, functioning on each iteration since the sixth generation and later.
This includes Apple's new transparent design elements, resulting in display features semi-translucent, plus introducing two new watch faces: a big digital interface called Flow that responds to movement and an analogue face called Exactograph, dividing hours, minutes and seconds as separate indicators.
The most impressive innovation involves wrist movements, where you rapidly twist your arm outward and then back to exit screens and return to the watch face.
It works even without looking at the device to view the screen, enabling wearers to dismiss alarms through simple motion via arm movement.
Activity Analysis
The wearable device includes an extensive fitness analysis system of features from previous models while introducing a couple of new features along with updated fitness program.
Blood pressure notifications monitor indicators of high blood pressure through extended monitoring, alerting users to get yourself checked out when pulse information shows possibility of undetected issues.
Updated sleep scoring improves sleep monitoring simpler to understand, like other brands from multiple companies.
Every day the screen presents a percentage score that is broken down in three sections: duration, bedtime and interruptions, which are all easy to understand and viewable via the health software on your smartphone too.
Exercise companion functions as intelligent training utilizing your historical exercise information to deliver encouragement during fitness activities, including identifying that you have already run regular activity patterns and exertion levels you demonstrated.
Also featuring spoken alerts when you reach certain milestones during exercise, like specific speed, pulse rate, distance, duration or other metrics.
Options include from three speaking tones, which speak to you over Bluetooth headphones paired with the device across twelve exercise types, such as walking, jogging or biking.
However, it only works when you bring along newer iPhone models with you, proving inconvenient prompting abandonment of the function preventing inconvenience bringing phones during exercise.
Sustainability and Environment
Apple says energy storage maintains over one thousand full power cycles retaining four-fifths of initial performance and is replaceable for ninety-five pounds.
Service pricing ranges from £295 to £389 based on specific version.
The device incorporates over forty percent recycled material including aluminium, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, lithium components, rare earth elements, steel, tin, {titanium|
