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This most recent smartwatch Series Eleven brings the one thing many users truly desire in a wearable device: longer battery life.

Otherwise, the new model serves as a straightforward upgrade for the Series 10, maintaining similarity in styling, dimensions and capabilities, with most of improvements coming from software.

The Series 11 is also priced £30 lower in the UK, priced starting at £369 sterling (€449/$399/679 Australian dollars), placed higher than the newly revamped £219 Watch SE at the low end alongside the £749 Ultra 3 at the high end.

Appearance and Screen

Following the design of tenth series, the latest iteration comes in at under 10mm slim, resulting in a slender profile when worn, convenient to tuck beneath shirt sleeves plus more pleasant during sleep.

Featuring a 2,000nit interface offers excellent visibility for viewing indoors and out, maintaining readability to read off-angle, which makes quickly looking to check time or messages straightforward.

It is covered by glass which is significantly more durable as before, though not quite as tough compared to sapphire, that's only available on the pricier titanium versions.

Performance and Battery

The new watch features identical S10 processor found in earlier versions while adding support for optional 5G plus enhanced signal strength when you're when you're in the wilderness.

The batteries have increased in storage by 9% and 11% with the smaller and 46mm watches correspondingly.

Larger model lasted a good 48 hours during evaluation including sleep monitoring excluding workout sessions.

Most people can nearly record two full days with overnight use prior to requiring power, needing 66 minutes employing 20W or higher charger (available separately), hitting about 70 percent in half an hour.

If you do engage in exercise, it will last approximately eight hours of tracking, sufficient duration to complete marathons or extended activities.

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: Two size variants
• Device slimness: Under 10mm
• Device weight: about 30g or 37g
• Processor: S10 silicon
• Internal storage: 64GB capacity
• Software platform: watchOS Twenty-Six
• Water resistance: 5ATM rating (5 atmospheres)
• Sensors: HR, ECG, spO2, temp, Depth gauge, Microphone, speaker, NFC, GNSS, compass, altimeter
• Communication options: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, UWB, 5G cellular option

Software Enhancements

This new model ships with updated software, functioning on all models since the sixth generation and subsequent.

Featuring the latest transparent design elements, which makes interface components semi-translucent, along with additional display styles: a big digital interface titled Flow reacting to motion and traditional watch face called Exactograph, that separates time components into individual displays.

The most impressive innovation is the wrist-flick gesture, involving quick rotation your arm outward and reversing to dismiss things returning to the main interface.

The feature operates without lifting your arm to look at the watch, enabling wearers to stop notifications using a quick gesture with your hand.

Wellness Monitoring

This smartwatch incorporates the same comprehensive health monitoring suite of features from previous models plus including several fresh capabilities and a redesigned workout app.

Blood pressure notifications check for symptoms of high blood pressure during monthly analysis, alerting users to seek medical advice if cardiac metrics suggests you may have underlying conditions.

Updated sleep scoring makes Apple's sleep tracking easier to interpret, comparable to rivals including various manufacturers.

Every day the watch shows a score out of 100 divided into categories across three areas: sleep length, timing and disturbances, which are all self-explanatory and accessible in the Health app on your smartphone as well.

Fitness assistant serves as automated guidance employing your past activity records to give you motivational messages before and after workouts, including identifying previous running sessions three times this week plus intensity measurement you demonstrated.

Also featuring spoken alerts upon achieving particular goals throughout activities, including certain tempo, pulse rate, range, period or additional measurements.

Users can select among three vocal styles, delivering verbal guidance through connected audio connected to your watch across twelve exercise types, such as walking, jogging or biking.

However, it only works when you bring along your iPhone 15 Pro or later with you, creating frustration sufficient to avoid the function eliminating hassle bringing phones during exercise.

Eco-Friendly Features

Reports indicate the battery should last exceeding 1000 full charge cycles retaining four-fifths of initial performance with replacement available for ninety-five pounds.

Repairs cost approximately £300-400 based on specific version.

The device incorporates more than 40% reused components featuring aluminum, cobalt metal, copper, glass, gold, lithium, specialized materials, steel, tin, {titanium|