Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Excellent Gesture Control and Improved Power Endurance

The newest wearable Series Eleven delivers the one thing many users truly desire in a wearable device: longer battery life.

Otherwise, the new model serves as a direct replacement to the Series 10, maintaining similarity in design, dimensions and functions, with many of improvements coming from software.

This new model additionally more affordable by £30 in the UK, priced starting at 369 pounds (€449/399 dollars/A$679), placed higher than the recently updated £219 Watch SE for entry-level buyers and the premium Ultra 3 at £749 at the high end.

Build and Interface

Similar to the previous Series 10, the latest iteration measures only 9.7mm thick, creating a slim fit to the wrist, simple to slide beneath shirt sleeves and easier to wear during sleep.

Featuring a 2,000nit interface offers excellent visibility for reading in various lighting, remaining clear at various perspectives, enabling quickly looking at the time or messages easy.

The surface features using glass that is significantly more durable than earlier versions, though not quite as tough compared to sapphire, that's only available with the higher-end titanium models.

Power and Endurance

The new watch incorporates identical S10 processor from the previous generation with new capability for optional 5G and stronger reception when you're exploring remote areas.

The batteries have increased in storage approximately 10 percent in the 42 millimeter and larger versions in that order.

Larger model lasted a good two days during evaluation with sleep tracking when not used for fitness.

The majority of users can nearly be able to track two days and two nights before needing a charge, needing 66 minutes with a 20-watt or greater power adaptor (sold separately), hitting about three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

Should you participate in workouts, the device can continue approximately eight hours for monitoring, sufficient duration for a marathon or extended activities.

Device Details

  • Case size: Two size variants
  • Case thickness: 9.7 millimeters
  • Mass: around 30 to 37g
  • Computing engine: S10 silicon
  • Memory: 64 gigabytes
  • Operating system: latest watchOS
  • Water resistance: 5ATM rating (5ATM)
  • Monitoring features: Heart rate, ECG, Blood oxygen, temp, depth, mic, Speaker, Near-field communication, GNSS, Compass, Altimeter
  • Wireless features: Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, 5G cellular option

Operating System Updates

The Series 11 ships with updated software, functioning on every version starting from Series 6 and later.

This includes recently introduced Liquid Glass interface, resulting in interface components partially transparent, along with two new watch faces: an expansive digital display called Flow that responds to movement and traditional watch face titled Exactograph, that separates chronological elements into individual displays.

The best new feature is the wrist-flick gesture, involving quick rotation your wrist away from you and reversing to exit screens and go back to the watch face.

It works even without raising your wrist to check the display, enabling wearers to turn off alerts with a satisfying flick of the wrist.

Wellness Monitoring

The wearable device features the same comprehensive health monitoring suite of features from previous models while introducing several fresh capabilities along with updated fitness program.

Hypertension alerts look for signs of hypertension through extended monitoring, informing wearers to get yourself checked out if your heart rate data suggests you may have undetected issues.

Updated sleep scoring makes Apple's sleep tracking simpler to understand, similar to competitors including various manufacturers.

Every day the device displays a numerical rating separated into components in three sections: duration, bedtime and interruptions, which are all self-explanatory and viewable via the health software through your mobile as well.

Fitness assistant is an AI coach utilizing your historical exercise information to deliver encouragement before and after workouts, including identifying existing workout history multiple weekly exercises and exertion levels you demonstrated.

Also featuring audible heads-up when attaining certain milestones during exercise, such as a particular pace, cardiac rhythm, length, time or other metrics.

There is a choice among three vocal styles, delivering verbal guidance via wireless earbuds paired with the device across twelve exercise types, like strolling, sprinting or cycling.

But, this feature depends on if you also carry your iPhone 15 Pro or later during activities, which I found irritating sufficient to avoid this capability preventing inconvenience with a phone on runs.

Sustainability and Environment

Reports indicate power cells will endure exceeding 1000 complete charging sessions retaining four-fifths of starting power and is replaceable at £95 cost.

Repairs cost from £295 to £389 based on specific version.

Materials include over forty percent sustainable elements such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, lithium components, rare earth elements, steel parts, tin elements, {titanium|

Alex Ward
Alex Ward

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