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The latest wearable 11th generation delivers the improvement most people actually want from a smartwatch: improved power endurance.

Otherwise, this latest version serves as a direct replacement for the Series 10, keeping pace in appearance, size measurements and features, with most of enhancements coming from software.

This new model additionally priced £30 lower within the United Kingdom, available from £369 sterling (€449/$399/A$679), positioned above the fresh redesigned SE model costing £219 in the budget category and the £749 Ultra 3 in the premium segment.

Appearance and Screen

Like last year's tenth series, this updated version measures only under 10mm slim, which makes it a slender profile to the wrist, simple to slide beneath shirt sleeves plus more pleasant overnight.

This 2,000-nit interface offers excellent visibility for reading in various lighting, remaining clear at various perspectives, which makes glancing down for timekeeping or notifications easy.

Protecting the display with glass that is significantly more durable as before, while not reaching the hardness of sapphire crystal, that's only available on the pricier titanium models.

Performance and Battery

The updated wearable incorporates the same S10 chip found in earlier versions while adding support for cellular 5G capability and improved connectivity during situations when you're in the wilderness.

Energy storage demonstrate growth in capacity approximately 10 percent with the smaller and larger versions correspondingly.

Larger model lasted a good 48 hours in testing with sleep tracking but without exercise.

The majority of users can nearly monitor two days and two nights until recharge becomes necessary, needing 66 minutes employing 20W or higher charger (available separately), hitting about three-quarters charge in 30 minutes.

If you do go out for a run, the device can continue about eight hours for monitoring, sufficient duration for endurance events or two.

Technical Specifications

• Case size: 42 or 46mm
• Profile depth: Under 10mm
• Mass: approximately 30-37 grams
• Chip: S10 silicon
• Memory: 64GB capacity
• Operating system: watchOS Twenty-Six
• Water resistance: 5ATM rating (50m waterproof)
• Monitoring features: Heart rate, Electrocardiogram, spO2, Temperature, depth, Microphone, speaker, Near-field communication, Global navigation, Compass, altimeter
• Wireless features: Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, UWB, 5G cellular option

watchOS 26 Features

The Series 11 comes preloaded with watchOS 26, which runs on all models from 2020's Series 6 and later.

It adds the latest Liquid Glass design, resulting in most elements semi-translucent, plus introducing additional display styles: a large digital face called Flow sensitive to gestures plus an analog display called Exactograph, dividing chronological elements into individual displays.

The best new feature involves wrist movements, requiring swift turning your hand backward and reversing to dismiss things and return to the main interface.

This functions without looking at the device to view the screen, allowing users to stop notifications using a quick gesture with your hand.

Health and Fitness Tracking

The wearable device incorporates an extensive health monitoring suite of capabilities found in earlier versions while introducing a couple of new features along with updated workout app.

High BP warnings look for signs of hypertension through extended monitoring, alerting users to seek medical advice if cardiac metrics indicates potential undetected issues.

Updated sleep scoring enhances rest analysis more straightforward to analyze, comparable to rivals from Google, Samsung and others.

Each morning the device displays a score out of 100 that is broken down in three sections: sleep length, timing and disturbances, each easy to understand and available via the health software on your smartphone too.

Fitness assistant is an AI coach that uses your historical exercise information to provide pep talks around exercise sessions, like detecting existing workout history regular activity patterns and exertion levels you demonstrated.

It also provides audible heads-up when attaining certain milestones while working out, like specific speed, cardiac rhythm, range, duration or further statistics.

There is a choice among three vocal styles, providing audio feedback over Bluetooth headphones connected to your watch across twelve exercise types, such as walking, jogging or biking.

Unfortunately, functionality requires if you have with you newer iPhone models during activities, proving inconvenient prompting abandonment of this capability to avoid being encumbered bringing phones during exercise.

Green Initiatives

Reports indicate the battery should last over one thousand full charge cycles retaining four-fifths of starting power and is replaceable for £95.

Service pricing ranges from £295 to £389 based on specific version.

It contains significant amounts of reused components such as aluminum, cobalt metal, copper, glass, gold, lithium, rare earth elements, steel, tin, {titanium|