Andrew O'Hara
Apple this evening posted a collection of review excerpts on the new Apple Watch Series 4 which is set to launch this Friday. Unsurprisingly, the included reviews are glowing.
It perhaps comes as no surprise that the new Apple Watch is receiving good reviews, it easily stole the show during Apple's Sept. 12 media event. Regardless, Apple hand selected complimentary quotes to feature in its latest roundup, just as it did with the iPhone XS and XS Max reviews yesterday.
Many of the early evaluations have praised the wearable, saying that after four generations, Apple has finally nailed the Apple Watch. The updated screen, which is 30 percent larger on both case sizes, is by far the best new feature, making the Series 3 and earlier feel cramped by comparison.
Here are just a few of the highlights:
"The new Apple Watch is perhaps one of the most significant developments in wearable gadgets in years."
"Apple Watch is an elegant solution from both a hardware and software standpoint. It walks the key wearable line of being engaging when necessary and fading into the background the rest of the time."
"The design is just gorgeous and the bright, vivid display with its narrow, curved bezels, looks sensational. The uptick in performance power is noticeable at every level and the increased health qualities and fitness monitoring are hugely welcome. If you've held back from getting an Apple Watch because you thought it wasn't quite there yet, well, it is now."
"This is the first Apple Watch that really feels like it lives up to Apple's original vision for the wearable. The bigger display, improved speaker quality, gorgeous watch faces, and advanced health and fitness features make the $399 starting price seem worth it."
"This screen makes it feel like I'm watching a freaking IMAX movie!"
Read the rest of Apple's cherry-picked review collection in its press release.
Apple Watch Series 4 represents the first redesign of Apple's wearable since the product line launched in 2015. Along with a larger OLED display, slimmer chassis and ceramic back for enhanced radio transparency, Series 4 incorporates an all-new heart rate sensor and electrodes capable of taking ECG readings.
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Series 4, here I come … to replace my Series 2. Just have to wait a little longer before I can get it. B)
Maybe someone could kindly explain to Mrs iJustine what IMAX means....
I'd disagree with those reviewers who claim that Apple has "finally nailed" the watch. They nailed it with Series 0 (the original). Mine has performed flawlessly, only just recently -- three and a half years later -- now requiring it be charged every day rather than every other day as it was when I first started wearing it.
Certainly the later ones are better in all directions, but like the original iPad -- Apple "got it right" and exceeded customer expectations (and outclassed all other wearables to that point quite handily) at its debut. The line just grows to match increasing audience sophistication and expectation beautifully with each new iteration, exactly as a well-designed product should do. This latest one might be garnering such effusive praise not because it is (obviously) the best one yet, but because this one managed to genuinely exceed, surprise, and delight its customer base -- and catch the attention of considerably larger new audiences.
I want to know if gps or heart rate monitor accuracy is improved. On a 5 mile run my watch is off by 0.2 miles. The sampling rate is too slow and the watch is probably not really ready (satellite-wise) at the start of workouts. Similarly, I get dropouts in heart rate when go go back and look at workouts. To keep me off of Garmins I would like to see these become priorities.