Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple Watch Series 5 hands-on”.
Hey everybody I’m here in Cupertino at Steve, Jobs, Theater and I have the Apple Watch Series 5 on my wrist and I am really excited about it and it’s because of this thing, I’m doing right now. Let me explain. The thing I’m most excited about for the Series 5. Is this screen right, here. The screen is currently off and when I turn it to face me, it pops on again.
And then, if you do that it just goes back off or if you turn it away from yourself.. Now Apple says that they are able to maintain an 18-hour battery life, even though the screen is always on. And they’re able to do that, because they’re good at screens they’re good at processors.. But this is an LTPO screen, which means that Apple can dynamically change. The hertz, the refresh rate of the screen, depending on what the situation calls for., They say all the way down to one hertz and up to 60..
So this is, you know, moving pretty fast., It’s like driving the second hand., The refresh rates, pretty good., And then here there’s basically no refresh rate at all.. It only needs refreshing honestly once a minute, because it’s just sittin’ there so. That’s really impressive..
Another new feature in the Series. 5 is a compass. So we’ll look at our recent apps here and there’s the Compass.
And, as I turn you can see, there’s this little red cone that gets smaller and smaller as it’s more and more confident that it’s accurately telling me the correct direction., Which is really clever. They call it like “ the Cone of Confidence.” And then, if we go back to the recent apps, we can look at Maps that same cone is visible and you can see it’s really narrow inside Apple Maps.. The Apple Watch comes in three finishes now: there’s aluminum, which is slightly higher quality, then before there’s stainless steel. This is the gold stainless steel right here and there’s a new ceramic option.. Now, last but not least, I’m not actually gon na show this to you.
But the Emergency SOS feature on cellular now works internationally. Any country. It’S able to figure out what the number is for Emergency Services and dial it.. So the Apple Watch Series 5 starts at $ 399 for the regular GPS version., The LTE version costs $ 499, and you could probably price them way higher than that. If you go ceramic and special band or whatever, and actually when you go to an Apple Store or online, they now sell the watch and the band sort of separately. And so you can pick and choose what you want your package to be..
But maybe my favorite thing is the Series 3, which is a couple generations. Ago. They’ve dropped the starting price on that down to $ 199, which is a pretty good deal for a new Apple Watch., Hey everyone thanks for watching.. This is a new Apple Watch.
We’Re obviously gon na review this and the new iPhones and everything that’s got announced today, so keep it locked to the Verge .