Apple Watch Series Eleven Analysis: Superb Wrist Gestures featuring Extended Battery Performance
This most recent smartwatch Series Eleven brings the one thing most people truly desire in a wearable device: improved power endurance.
Apart from that, this latest version acts as a direct replacement for the Series 10, keeping pace in styling, size measurements and features, with most of enhancements coming from watchOS.
The latest version is also priced £30 lower for UK customers, priced starting at £369 sterling (€449/$399/A$679), and sits above the newly revamped Watch SE at £219 for entry-level buyers and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.
Build and Interface
Like last year's Series 10, the new model comes in at 9.7mm thick, creating a slender profile when worn, easy to sneak beneath shirt sleeves plus more pleasant at night.
Featuring a 2,000nit display offers excellent visibility for viewing inside and outside, maintaining readability to read off-angle, making quickly looking to check time or alerts straightforward.
Protecting the display by glass that is double the scratch resistance as before, although not as hard compared to sapphire, that's only available for the more expensive titanium models.
Power and Endurance
The new watch incorporates the same S10 chip as last year's model but now supports optional 5G and improved connectivity during situations exploring remote areas.
Energy storage have increased in storage significantly for the 42mm and larger versions correspondingly.
The 46mm achieved approximately two days during evaluation featuring overnight analysis excluding workout sessions.
Typical wearers can nearly monitor two days and two nights before needing a charge, needing just over an hour employing 20W or greater power adaptor (not included), achieving around three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.
Should you engage in exercise, the device can continue around 8 hours while recording, sufficient duration for endurance events or extended activities.
Device Details
- Size options: Two size variants
- Profile depth: 9.7mm
- Mass: about 30g or 37g
- Computing engine: S10 processor
- Memory: 64GB capacity
- Software platform: watchOS 26
- Water resistance: 50 meters (50m waterproof)
- Health tracking: HR, Electrocardiogram, spO2, temp, depth, mic, Speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, Altimeter
- Communication options: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, Ultra-wideband, 5G cellular option
Operating System Updates
This new model includes updated software, compatible with every version from 2020's Series 6 and subsequent.
Featuring the latest Liquid Glass design, resulting in most elements semi-translucent, along with fresh interface options: a big digital interface named Flow that responds to movement and traditional watch face called Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.
The standout addition is the wrist-flick gesture, where you rapidly twist your wrist away from you then returning to close applications and go back to the home screen.
This functions without raising your wrist to view the screen, enabling wearers to turn off alerts using a quick gesture with your hand.
Wellness Monitoring
The wearable device includes the same comprehensive fitness analysis system of tools available in prior generations while introducing a couple of new features and a redesigned fitness program.
Blood pressure notifications look for signs of high blood pressure over a 30-day period, alerting users to seek medical advice when pulse information suggests you may have underlying conditions.
The new sleep score metric improves sleep monitoring easier to interpret, similar to competitors including various manufacturers.
Each morning the watch shows a percentage score that is broken down into three categories: duration, bedtime and interruptions, all being self-explanatory and available via the health software on the iPhone too.
Workout buddy serves as automated guidance utilizing your past activity records to deliver pep talks before and after workouts, like detecting previous running sessions regular activity patterns plus intensity measurement you put it.
Additionally offering audible heads-up when you reach particular goals while working out, including certain tempo, heart rate, range, time or further statistics.
Options include from three speaking tones, which speak to you through connected audio paired with the device across twelve exercise types, including walking, running or cycling.
But, this feature depends on if you also carry recent smartphones with you, which I found irritating sufficient to avoid this capability eliminating hassle with a phone on runs.
Green Initiatives
The manufacturer states the battery should last exceeding 1000 full power cycles retaining four-fifths of initial performance and can be replaced for £95.
Service pricing ranges between £295 and £389 according to device type.
The device incorporates more than 40% reused components featuring aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass, gold materials, lithium, uncommon minerals, steel, tin, {titanium|
