I have never climbed Elbrus. Didn’t go to dark paths, didn’t explore dense forests, and didn’t discover new routes in the oceans.
However, the new Apple Watch Ultra has been flaunting on my wrist for a week now. Smartwatches, which Cupertino engineers define for extreme athletes, conquer new heights and unknown places on land, in water and on the ocean.
A week is enough time to learn about the impressions of the Apple Watch Ultra, analyze their pros and cons, and most importantly, answer why absolutely non-professional athletes will be the watch buyers.
Fresh design is the main innovation
I use the Apple Watch Ultra just like I use my own AW Series 7 watch. Notifications and sleep tracking are the main features I want from a smartwatch. The question is, why did you even need to change the still current gadget of the seventh series to the Apple Watch Ultra?
After 8 years of owning generations of smartwatches from Apple, the Ultras are the first truly redesigned Apple Watch designers on the planet. In other cases, thickness and weight, so that they feel on the hand in a new way, constantly attracting the eye. And at the same time, it’s still the same Apple smartwatch with the usual functionality.
To be honest: after changing the Apple Watch of any higher version to Ultra, the first impression will be bewilderment, because they are so big! How to wear them under clothes? What about sleeping in them?
All these fears are groundless and vain: to weighing 61 grams you get used to it in just half an hour, and case thickness 14.4 mm in no way interferes with wearing this watch with any winter jacket.
Useful features that come as a bonus to the Apple Watch Ultra
The main thing that I got with AW Ultra is a noticeable increase in battery life. If the seventh series of his watches charged every night, because during the day the charge level steadily decreased from 100 to 35-30%, then with the “Ultra” I remember charging once every three days.
From morning to evening in normal use with a bunch of observed, the new watch is discharged by a maximum of 10-12%. About the same amount flies overnight, and this is with ECG measurements turned on and constant work with the results.
I want to highlight the brightness of the screen. In the Apple Watch Ultra, this parameter is 2000 nits, while in previous smart showers, the brightness reaches 1000 nits. This increase in manifestation is very noticeable, especially on a bright sunny frosty day outside.
In the evening, I love the special night mode of the “Explorer” dial, when all the information is displayed in red. Pleasant to the eyes and easy to read.
It’s strange, but I’m more comfortable sleeping with the big AW Ultra on my arm than with the elite watches of the seventh series. Paradoxically, the “Ultra” is heavier and therefore less noticeable on the wrist when the hand is on the back.
Another plus of the Apple Watch Ultra is that the wheel turns more tightly, which results in random scrolling of the sleeve of the clothes. It often happened all the time that you listen to music and suddenly get out loudly to the maximum, because several turns are lost in the turn of the arm and the wheel due to the set of sleeves on the jacket.
With “Ultra” such accidents are excluded. Not only is the wheel protected by the protruding edges of the case, it also spins with noticeable effort.
The new function button is handy, especially if you hang a flashlight on it. Just the other day I was in the theater and during the performance fell on the floor of the key. Without taking out the iPhone, I illuminated it for half an hour and easily found the loss. It would be great to expand the list of applications that can be activated using this button, I hope Apple does this in the next version of watchOS.
Old straps from Apple Watch Series 7 to Ultra, like family. However, they do not want to be worn with a new watch, because they are not brutal enough. Therefore, I go with a rag “mountain” strap in green and wait for the price of silicone for divers to fall in white. I really enjoyed holding it in my hands and feeling it.
An unexpected minus of hours opened after a few days of use, and in this regard, it has a large and high detection rate. Yes, in any room of a beautiful warehouse, but also in the lungs with increased sensitivity to all the people around you. Therefore, only “previews” remained on the screen. Still, a few years of using the Apple Watch with a decrease in the size of people are accustomed to privacy.
I have never had to swim and play sports on the Apple Watch Ultra. With the advent of waiting for the summer, when it will be possible to protest on the beach and in the water.
As a verdict, I want to note that it is absolutely necessary to mark a watch that, over many years of implementation, really feels like new, and not like another update of the stuffing in an old case.
Who to take, who not to go
Contrary to Apple’s desire to make a sports-oriented gadget for lovers of a wide variety of activities, the Apple Watch Ultra turned out to be a little more brutal compared to other common people with previous series, no more. Autonomous work has increased, but it still falls short of specialized wearable devices from Garmin or even the same Huawei GT Pro.
So this watch will definitely appeal to all lovers of novelty who stand out and purchase the latest Apple devices. The functionality of the AW Ultra is practically the same as any previous generations of Apple Watch, except that there is a siren (most will never need) and an accident sensor, which, fortunately, has not yet been tested either.
If you have an extra 89,990 rubles and a desire to feel the titanium case on your hand, feel free to upgrade to Apple Watch Ultra of any generation of Apple Watch. And if you have been taken by everything in your current smartwatch, then take your time: “Ultra” is just Apple’s first attempt to make some new highly specialized gadget, and next year the company will release a new version, taking into account all the mistakes and wishes of top extreme athletes .
I’m sure it will be even better.
Source: Iphones RU
