Apple Watch 'Series 4' might use bigger 384x480 resolution
The edge-to-edge display on the recently-leaked Apple Watch "Series 4" should also inflate resolution to 384 by 480 pixels, code in the latest watchOS 5 beta suggests.
That compares with the 312-by-390 resolution on the Series 3. Apple is believed to have accidentally leaked images of its successor late last month, revealing a device with a bigger display, a new watchface, and new complications. More complications can also be shown onscreen simultaneously.
After testing using Xcode's Apple Watch Simulator, assuming a density of 345 pixels per inch, 9to5Mac noted that some apps may have to make serious interface changes. The company will presumably issue this code on or around its Sept. 12 press event, when it's likely to reveal the new Watch and possibly launch watchOS 5 for existing models.
Aside from support for new hardware watchOS 5 will bring a Walkie Talkie app and native podcast support, including offline playback for both first- and third-party apps. People will also be able to launch Siri by raising their wrist, and get proactive suggestions from the Siri watchface based on daily routines.
Fitness followers will get long-awaited automatic workout detection, new Yoga and Hiking workouts, and pace alerts for people wanting to keep up a certain speed during runs and walks.
In some cases people will be able to respond to notifications without opening an app, and even preview website links.
That compares with the 312-by-390 resolution on the Series 3. Apple is believed to have accidentally leaked images of its successor late last month, revealing a device with a bigger display, a new watchface, and new complications. More complications can also be shown onscreen simultaneously.
After testing using Xcode's Apple Watch Simulator, assuming a density of 345 pixels per inch, 9to5Mac noted that some apps may have to make serious interface changes. The company will presumably issue this code on or around its Sept. 12 press event, when it's likely to reveal the new Watch and possibly launch watchOS 5 for existing models.
Aside from support for new hardware watchOS 5 will bring a Walkie Talkie app and native podcast support, including offline playback for both first- and third-party apps. People will also be able to launch Siri by raising their wrist, and get proactive suggestions from the Siri watchface based on daily routines.
Fitness followers will get long-awaited automatic workout detection, new Yoga and Hiking workouts, and pace alerts for people wanting to keep up a certain speed during runs and walks.
In some cases people will be able to respond to notifications without opening an app, and even preview website links.
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Same here. Showed my wife and, of course, she wants one too. Will hand down our old watches to the kids, most likely.
Anyway, here are the official ways to wipe your Watch.
Finally; my first Watch! I can't wait.
What made you not buy any of the earlier generations?
@ Roger Fingas can you expand on the Walkie Talkie app... This could be a killer app for both personal and business use.
Since kids rarely have pockets big enough to hold an iPhone securely, and because it's likely to break while playing their rough and tumble games anyway, an Apple Watch can be with the at all times. And, with LTE
For a long time it just did not do enough. Finally now there are getting to be enough sensors, and functions to warrant the cost.
Secondly, I played with one. Just a year or so after it came out. Couldn't get it to do anything but show the time. In hindsight I suspect it had frozen and needed to be rebooted, but I didn't know that. This summer I had another chance to play with one. It was working properly and was much more impressive.
Thirdly, even this summer I found it interesting but not very user friendly. Everything required tapping, swiping, twisting the crown, or some magical combination of all three. Finally with the introduction of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink display shown above, it's more what I want. A data centre that I can glance at and see whatever I want without needing to flick, and tap and twist to get to it.
Add to the above that I stopped wearing a watch almost fifteen years ago, and it will take a very impressive product to get me to go back. Am I going to get one this year? Probably not. For what it does I still can't justify the cost. But it's gone from "What a silly waste of money" to "It's it's getting close to where I can see myself getting one, someday."
One interesting thing about the AW. It has to be played with to show its value. I can look at a description of a MacBook or an iPad and see the value in it, decide if I want it or not. I've mentioned here and elsewhere that I have seen exactly one (1) AW in use in this area. I suspect that's because there's nowhere here on Vancouver Island that you can play with one. There are no Apple Stores. Once you play with one, and it's working, you can see the value. That doesn't come through on a web page or a review.
Tapping and swiping? Yeah it’s a touch device. Just like your phone requires. They aren’t telepathic.
You just didnt know what to do in the seconds you played with one so you panicked and created a narrative that it was too hard to use.
—Hillary