Apple Watch Series 6 – What’s the Fuss is All About!

Now, the new stuff starts with the unboxing where you’re going to get mostly the same packaging as a previous generation Apple Watch. But this time you’ll notice, besides the watch itself and the band it comes with, the charger adapter is missing. So it comes with the cable, but no USB wall adapter, and that’s now sold separately. And Apple notably takes that into the environmental section of their presentation.

The Outside Look of Apple Watch Series 6

The watch esthetically is the same on the outside. The only real change that you will notice is the colors because that’s the only real change on the outside. The materials are the same, and the sizes available are the same. But we do have some new colors now. There’s blue, gold, graphite, and red.

Inside Technology Upgrade

when it comes to the inside, the tech improvements are the new S6 chip and a couple of new sensors. So the S6 ship feels like Apple’s silicon team continuing to make strides, flexing on us again. They’ve always been good with efficiency and they’ve made another step in that direction here. So it is a dual-core chip in here based on the A13 Bionic. And thanks to its improved efficiency, it’ll let them crank up the always-on display to be twice as bright as the Apple watch series 5 and keep the same battery and performance.

Better Battery Life

Apple tightened up a lot of the animations in Apple watch series 6. So it is faster, snappier because the animations are shorter. Maybe that was the goal is to keep the battery life add a day and a half because that’s important. That’s what it’s been for so long.

And now the watch does sleep tracking. So people need to find the right sliver of time in the morning to charge it up and not have it die. And the Apple watch series 6 will now charge up faster as well. So it’ll go from zero to one hundred percent battery in about an hour and a half, which is it’s not blazing fast or anything, but it is an improvement better than no improvement at all.
And of course, most things charge there fastest from zero to like 75%. So that’ll be shorter.

New Sensors

The new sensors I mentioned, you can see if you’re looking at the bottom of the watch. There is a new blood oxygen sensor. So it’s using infrared photography to measure the color and therefore the percentage of oxygen in your blood. It’s pretty wild. Of course, the stipulation is it’s not medical grade. It’s just kind of there to inform you generally of where you’re at.
I don’t think this is a good reason to get the Apple Watch Series 6, but it’s here and it’s cool that it works fine.

And then there’s some other Quick Hits, five gigahertz wi-fi support now in Series 6. There’s also now an altimeter using barometric air pressure to tell you your elevation down to the foot, which means it won’t work on planes. It could be cool for hiking or skydiving. But, yeah, that’s pretty much it for the Apple watch series 6. Not that dramatic of a difference. But whenever you see new colors on Apple products, people tend to go pretty into it with the color stuff.

Some of the bigger Apple Watch changes that I’ve just kind of been wondering about lately, like when are they going to do a different shape, like maybe a more round version? Are they potentially going to add CZI wireless charging support?

Are they ever going to do that to enable more compatibility with other smart wireless charging pads or maybe a future version of airpower? Are they ever going to do truly open third-party watch faces and have a whole watch face store? None of that big dramatic stuff is happening with Series 6.

Watch Bands

Interestingly Apple introduced new bands they announced. These are pretty stretchy they call them solo loop bands. And essentially they’re the clean, minimal, seamless bands that they’ve announced alongside the Apple watch series 6. And so basically, as you can imagine, fitting is really important with these stretchy. So to get the right one, they have a fitting document on their website.