Apple's Watch Series 11 Evaluation: Excellent Gesture Control with Longer Battery Life
Our latest smartwatch Series Eleven brings the feature the majority truly desire from their wrist gadget: longer battery life.
Otherwise, the updated device acts as a straightforward upgrade to the Series 10, keeping pace in styling, size measurements and features, with many of improvements coming from software.
This new model is also £30 cheaper for UK customers, costing from 369 pounds (449 euros/399 dollars/A$679), placed higher than the recently updated Watch SE at £219 in the budget category and the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.
Build and Interface
Similar to the previous Series 10, this updated version comes in at 9.7mm thick, resulting in a slim fit on your arm, convenient to tuck below clothing and easier to wear at night.
The 2,000nit display remains sufficiently luminous for reading indoors and out, staying legible when viewed from different angles, making taking a peek at the time or notifications simple.
The surface features using glass reportedly double the scratch resistance than earlier versions, while not reaching the hardness compared to sapphire, that remains exclusive on the pricier titanium versions.
Power and Endurance
This latest device features the same S10 chip found in earlier versions while adding support for cellular 5G capability plus enhanced signal strength when you're away from civilization.
Energy storage demonstrate growth in storage significantly with the smaller and 46mm watches correspondingly.
The 46mm managed an impressive two days during evaluation featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.
Typical wearers can nearly be able to track two days and two nights before needing a charge, requiring about 66 minutes employing 20W or higher charger (available separately), reaching approximately 70% in 30 minutes.
If you do engage in exercise, the device can continue approximately eight hours for monitoring, sufficient duration to complete marathons or multiple events.
Technical Specifications
- Dimensions: 42 or 46mm
- Case thickness: 9.7 millimeters
- Weight: around 30 to 37g
- Computing engine: S10
- Internal storage: 64GB capacity
- Software platform: watchOS 26
- Swim capability: 50 meters (5ATM)
- Sensors: Heart rate, Electrocardiogram, Blood oxygen, Temperature, Depth gauge, Microphone, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, altimeter
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, NFC capability, Ultra-wideband, 5G cellular option
watchOS 26 Features
This new model comes preloaded with updated software, compatible with every version since the sixth generation and subsequent.
Featuring Apple's new Liquid Glass design, resulting in interface components semi-translucent, and adds fresh interface options: a large digital face called Flow reacting to motion plus an analog display named Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.
The best new feature centers on gesture control, where you rapidly twist your wrist away from you then returning to dismiss things and return to the home screen.
The feature operates without looking at the device to look at the watch, meaning you can dismiss alarms with a satisfying flick with your hand.
Health and Fitness Tracking
The wearable device includes the same comprehensive wellness tracking package of features from previous models while introducing a couple of new features along with updated fitness program.
High BP warnings look for signs of hypertension over a 30-day period, alerting users to get yourself checked out if your heart rate data shows possibility of undetected issues.
Enhanced sleep analysis enhances rest analysis more straightforward to analyze, comparable to rivals including various manufacturers.
Each morning the screen presents a score out of 100 separated into components into three categories: duration, bedtime and interruptions, which are all self-explanatory and viewable through the wellness application on your smartphone too.
Fitness assistant is an AI coach utilizing your historical exercise information to give you motivational messages during fitness activities, like detecting previous running sessions three times this week plus intensity measurement you achieved.
Also featuring verbal notifications when you reach specific targets while working out, including certain tempo, cardiac rhythm, length, duration or further statistics.
Options include from three speaking tones, providing audio feedback over Bluetooth headphones paired with the device across twelve exercise types, including walking, running or cycling.
Unfortunately, functionality requires when you bring along your iPhone 15 Pro or later with you, proving inconvenient prompting abandonment of the function preventing inconvenience with a phone on runs.
Sustainability and Environment
Apple says energy storage maintains over one thousand full power cycles with at least 80% of its original capacity and can be replaced for ninety-five pounds.
Fixings require approximately £300-400 based on specific version.
It contains significant amounts of sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt, copper elements, glass, gold, lithium, rare earth elements, steel, tin, {titanium|
