Apple Watch Series 10 hands-on

The Verge

It’s brighter, lighter, bigger and thinner. The new Apple Watch Series 10 comes in two new sizes — 42mm and 46mm. The Verge’s Victoria Song says that the new bigger watches don’t feel clunky to wear, but it does feel noticeably lighter in her brief demo following Apple’s Glowtime event. The new Series 10 watches are also getting some new features like sleep apnea (not available yet), but are also getting some features that were previously reserved for the Ultra Watch like depth gauge. The Ultra Watch didn’t get a big update this year, instead it got a new jet black color.

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00:00The Apple Watch Series 10, we just got some hands-on with it, and what I can say is this

00:07kind of feels like the ultrafication of the regular Apple Watch.

00:12First off, there's a much bigger screen.

00:14It is technically the largest display of any Apple Watch ever, including the Ultra.

00:19We're going up from 41 millimeters and 45 millimeters to 42 millimeters and 46 millimeters.

00:26Now, the sizes have been creeping up ever since the Series 7, but I gotta say, I tried

00:30both sizes on downstairs, and you won't really notice it that much.

00:35The 42 millimeters still feels pretty good if you have a smaller wrist.

00:40It's also 10% thinner and 10% lighter.

00:43That doesn't sound like a lot, but I wear an Ultra 2 daily, and I could definitely feel

00:49the difference when I had it on my wrist.

00:51It's super light.

00:52I was just like, oh my god, so much lighter.

00:55We've got the Depth app coming over from the Ultra to the Series 10.

01:00The big health update this time around is sleep apnea detection.

01:04Well, it's coming eventually when it gets regulatory clearance, which the FDA hasn't

01:09given yet, but Apple says is coming soon.

01:12Sleep apnea is when you're asleep, you stop breathing.

01:15It can be a really serious thing that's hard to detect for a lot of people.

01:18What's interesting about the way Apple is doing it is they're not using an SpO2 sensor.

01:23Instead, they're using an accelerometer verified against clinical data from a study that they

01:29ran themselves.

01:30We'll find out more about that in the coming days, but that should be super interesting,

01:35especially since the SpO2 sensors are currently the subject of a patent battle with Massimo.

01:42Now you know why that they can release it now.

01:46There's a bunch of small hardware tweaks, like there's a metal back where the antennas

01:49are.

01:50You can use the speakers for anything other than a phone call now, like podcasts and music.

01:54But generally speaking, this pretty much still feels like the Apple Watch you know and love.

02:01But there's a lot of new finishes and colors this time around too.

02:06There's titanium with rose gold.

02:07We love the return of rose gold.

02:09But you know, all you Ultra fans have been complaining for a while.

02:14You don't have to complain anymore.

02:16There is a black Ultra 2.

02:18It's not an Ultra 3, but it is a black Ultra 2 alongside a new jet black option for the

02:24regular Series 10.

02:25And I gotta say, the black is quite fetching.

02:28If Batman used a smartwatch, the Ultra 2 in black is the one that he would use.

02:33He'd be like, I'm Batman.

02:35This is my Ultra.

02:36That's 100% what he would do.

02:38So no more complaining.

02:40There's a darker Ultra 2 now.

02:41So the Apple Watch Series 10 will be available starting Friday, September 20th.

02:46The regular model is still the same price at $399.

02:49But if you want it in titanium, that starts at $699.

02:54Because fancy materials cost more.

03:03What are we doing?

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