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Our newest smartwatch Series Eleven brings the one thing many users actually want in a wearable device: improved power endurance.

In other aspects, the new model serves as an immediate successor for the Series 10, maintaining similarity in styling, proportions and features, with the majority of its upgrades originating from watchOS.

The Series 11 furthermore priced £30 lower for UK customers, costing from 369 pounds (€449/399 dollars/A$679), positioned above the recently updated Watch SE at £219 at the low end and the £749 Ultra 3 for top-tier users.

Build and Interface

Following the design of Series 10, the new model measures only under 10mm slim, creating a trim appearance to the wrist, simple to slide beneath shirt sleeves and more comfortable at night.

This 2,000-nit OLED screen remains sufficiently luminous for seeing indoors and out, maintaining readability when viewed from different angles, making quickly looking to check time or alerts easy.

The surface features using glass reportedly significantly more durable than earlier versions, though not quite as tough of sapphire crystal, which is reserved on the pricier titanium editions.

Capability and Runtime

The new watch features the same S10 chip found in earlier versions while adding support for 5G connectivity option plus enhanced signal strength for those times exploring remote areas.

The batteries have increased in capacity approximately 10 percent with the smaller and 46mm watches in that order.

Bigger version achieved approximately two days in our assessment featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.

Most people will just about monitor two full days with overnight use before needing a charge, requiring about 66 minutes employing 20W or higher charger (available separately), achieving around three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

If you do engage in exercise, the device can continue around 8 hours of tracking, sufficient duration for a marathon or two.

Product Features

• Size options: 42mm and 46mm
• Profile depth: 9.7mm
• Mass: approximately 30-37 grams
• Processor: S10 processor
• Memory: 64GB
• Watch OS: latest watchOS
• Water resistance: 50 meters (5ATM)
• Sensors: HR, ECG, spO2, temp, depth, Microphone, speaker, NFC, GNSS, Compass, altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, Ultra-wideband, optional 5G

watchOS 26 Features

The Series 11 ships with the latest watchOS, functioning on every version starting from Series 6 and newer.

It adds Apple's new Liquid Glass design, creating interface components partially transparent, plus introducing fresh interface options: a big digital interface named Flow reacting to motion and an analogue face called Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.

The most impressive innovation involves wrist movements, where you rapidly twist your wrist away from you and then back to exit screens and go back to the home screen.

It works even without lifting your arm to check the display, allowing users to stop notifications with a satisfying flick of the wrist.

Wellness Monitoring

The wearable device includes an extensive fitness analysis system of capabilities found in earlier versions but adds a couple of new features and a redesigned fitness program.

High BP warnings look for signs of high blood pressure during monthly analysis, informing wearers to seek medical advice if cardiac metrics suggests you may have undetected issues.

The new sleep score metric enhances rest analysis simpler to understand, similar to competitors including various manufacturers.

Daily upon waking the screen presents a numerical rating separated into components in three sections: sleep length, timing and disturbances, which are all self-explanatory and accessible through the wellness application on your smartphone also.

Exercise companion functions as intelligent training that uses your previous workout data to provide encouragement around exercise sessions, like detecting existing workout history regular activity patterns and the level of effort you achieved.

Additionally offering spoken alerts when you reach specific targets while working out, such as a particular pace, cardiac rhythm, length, period or further statistics.

There is a choice of three voices, providing audio feedback via wireless earbuds connected to your watch for multiple workout categories, such as walking, jogging or biking.

But, this feature depends on when you bring along newer iPhone models with you, which I found irritating sufficient to avoid the feature preventing inconvenience with a phone on runs.

Green Initiatives

Apple says energy storage maintains over one thousand complete charging sessions with at least 80% of its original capacity and can be replaced for ninety-five pounds.

Fixings require approximately £300-400 depending on the model.

Materials include over forty percent reused components featuring aluminum, cobalt, copper elements, glass, gold materials, lithium components, uncommon minerals, steel parts, tin, {titanium|