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danny602 said:

I had hoped for longer battery life, my current Apple Watch wouldn’t get me through my day and late night gym routine, it pooped out before I’d completed my workout. I love the new health features, as we grow older it’s important to keep track of our vital statistics so I’m buying, I’ll just have to carry my charger on my ride home from work to charge the battery. I hope it’s a little more durable, just reaching for something knocked the screen completely off the base, an unfortunate occurrence which rendered my current Apple Watch useless.

Two watches work miracles for this issue. While you're wearing one for the gym, already set up with a different band, your "office" watch is charging, all ready for a night out after your workout. Unless you sell your old watch, this is not a bad routine for prolonging battery life and always having a watch ready to go.

soundsinamotion said:

It’s still not edge to edge design, there’s a curved bezel now. I’m sure in the next design or 2 they will do the full no bezel.

Edge to Edge is relative to the case. Even the iPhone Xx series is not edge to edge (to say nothing of the notch). But it could have been had Apple chosen a different manner of construction and wrapped the edge of the case over the bezel, rather than glue the screen to the case from the top (which also requires a bezel as an attachment point. The watch is the same construction.

That said, I'm still surprised Apple did not maximize what's possible with current technology. Look at this graphic comparison below with the 42mm Huawei watch from 4 years ago, when the Apple Watch bezel was massive (brown). Note how the construction differs -- in the case of the Huawei (shape notwithstanding), the bezel is much thinner, and is hidden by the steel ring. While Apple narrowed the gap with the 44mm (orange), they still didn't go as far as the Huawei (rust), and due to Apple's glue-down construction would still have had a bezel. But they could have chosen to sink the display into the watch, and wrap the metal edges of the watch over what little bezel there was. This of course would have made the watch harder to repair any screen damage. So there's a trade off -- still Apple could have made the active display area larger than they did. And certainly they took their time doing it -- 4 generations after Huawei was doing it. The good news is that Apple can still maximize the active display area a little with this design in the future, though I'm not sure they can ever eliminate the bezel entirely as long as they glue down the crystal, even if it were otherwise possible.




As for the curved bezel, I really do wonder what they plan to do with presenting data. In the graphic below, note this text wrapping screen from the 42mm watch as it appears now, scaled up to the corners of the new 44mm, and then scaled up to the full active display area. It creates a bit of a quandary with those rounded corners really causing a problem with maximizing the space for text. If the text is to avoid wrapping pitfalls and inconsistent cropping, they really can't enlarge the text area much more than what they have now. I'll be very interested to see what they do with this. If text wrapping is constrained to a central area to avoid being cropped by the round corners, then I'm not sure what the point of having a larger display area is, or limiting it to a rectangular shape (then again, maybe that's the point).




EDIT: it appears as though Apple intends to crop scrolled text in the corners. I’m stunned that the time is clipped like that — maybe still a beta version?

eightzero said:

I'm buying. Wasn't planning to until the event, but it changed my mind.

I was going to buy my mom the Series 3 LTE when the price came down, until I saw the keynote with fall detection, and auto 911 if non responsive. This is brilliant and a major game changer, whatever the cost.

cgWerks said:

...and starting to get a bit smaller. Another generation or two, and maybe it will start to be more like a normal watch (though I wonder how much smaller it can ever be... as I'd think cellular communication will take a certain fixed amount of power that will be hard to make more efficient).

How do you mean it’s getting smaller? It’s 2mm taller and wider than the last model, and while it’s slimmer than the Series 3, it’s still not as thin as the original Series 0. 

uktechie said:

I love my iPhone X but several family members prefer the iPhone SE and I’ve fond memories of having a small light-weight iPhone that easily fitted in my pocket. 

I’m hoping for a ‘one more thing’ iPhone SE-X launch in October just after they announce new Retine MacBook Airs and the edge-to-edge OLED iPad X...

Is that likely? If they were doing a new SE you”d expect it to be included in today’s but who knows? Maybe they want to get the premium orders out the way first and didn’t want to confuse everyone with four new iPhones in one event?

How about the XE?