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This newest smartwatch Series Eleven introduces the one thing most people really need from their wrist gadget: improved power endurance.

In other aspects, this latest version functions as a direct replacement to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in design, dimensions and functions, with many of improvements coming from software.

This new model is also £30 cheaper within the United Kingdom, costing from £369 sterling (€449/$399 USD/679 Australian dollars), positioned above the fresh redesigned SE model costing £219 at the low end and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.

Appearance and Screen

Like last year's Series 10, this updated version is just 9.7mm thick, creating a slender profile when worn, convenient to tuck beneath shirt sleeves and easier to wear at night.

This 2,000-nit OLED screen is plenty bright for reading in various lighting, staying legible when viewed from different angles, making glancing down at the time or messages straightforward.

The surface features using glass which is twice as scratch resistant as before, though not quite as tough as sapphire, that's only available on the pricier titanium versions.

Performance and Battery

The new watch utilizes the same S10 chip as last year's model with new capability for optional 5G plus enhanced signal strength during situations away from civilization.

Energy storage demonstrate growth in storage by 9% and 11% in the 42 millimeter and 46 millimeter models respectively.

The 46mm achieved approximately two days in our assessment including sleep monitoring when not used for fitness.

Most people should approximately record two full days with overnight use until recharge becomes necessary, which takes about 66 minutes employing 20W or more powerful adapter (sold separately), hitting about 70% in 30 minutes.

If you do engage in exercise, it will last around 8 hours for monitoring, sufficient duration to complete marathons or multiple events.

Product Features

• Dimensions: 42 or 46mm
• Device slimness: 9.7 millimeters
• Mass: around 30 to 37g
• Processor: S10
• Storage: 64GB
• Operating system: latest watchOS
• Swim capability: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
• Health tracking: Heart rate, Electrocardiogram, Blood oxygen, temp, Depth gauge, Microphone, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, altimeter
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, NFC, UWB, optional 5G

Operating System Updates

The latest device comes preloaded with updated software, functioning on each iteration starting from Series 6 and subsequent.

This includes Apple's new Liquid Glass interface, which makes display features semi-translucent, and adds two new watch faces: a big digital interface called Flow that responds to movement and an analogue face titled Exactograph, which breaks out time components into their own dials.

The standout addition involves wrist movements, where you rapidly twist your wrist away from you and reversing to dismiss things and return to the watch face.

The feature operates without lifting your arm to view the screen, enabling wearers to stop notifications with a satisfying flick via arm movement.

Activity Analysis

The wearable device includes a complete fitness analysis system of tools from previous models plus including several fresh capabilities and a redesigned fitness program.

Hypertension alerts look for signs of hypertension during monthly analysis, notifying you to seek medical advice if cardiac metrics suggests you may have a hidden problem.

Enhanced sleep analysis enhances rest analysis simpler to understand, comparable to rivals from multiple companies.

Every day the watch shows a score out of 100 divided into categories in three sections: time asleep, schedule and wakeups, all being easy to understand and available through the wellness application through your mobile also.

Exercise companion serves as automated guidance utilizing your past activity records to provide encouragement during fitness activities, like detecting existing workout history multiple weekly exercises and the level of effort you demonstrated.

Additionally offering spoken alerts when attaining certain milestones throughout activities, including certain tempo, pulse rate, distance, time or further statistics.

There is a choice among three vocal styles, providing audio feedback over Bluetooth headphones paired with the device across twelve exercise types, like strolling, sprinting or cycling.

Unfortunately, functionality requires when you bring along newer iPhone models alongside, which I found irritating prompting abandonment of this capability to avoid being encumbered bringing phones during exercise.

Green Initiatives

The manufacturer states energy storage maintains exceeding 1000 full charge cycles with at least 80% of starting power with replacement available for £95.

Fixings require from £295 to £389 based on specific version.

The device incorporates more than 40% reused components such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, lithium components, specialized materials, steel, tin, {titanium|