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Our most recent Apple Watch Series Eleven brings the improvement the majority truly desire from their wrist gadget: extended battery performance.

In other aspects, this latest version functions as a direct replacement to the Series 10, keeping pace in appearance, size measurements and capabilities, with most of enhancements derived from watchOS.

The Series 11 is also priced £30 lower for UK customers, costing from 369 pounds (€449/$399/A$679), and sits above the newly revamped SE model costing £219 for entry-level buyers and the premium Ultra 3 at £749 at the high end.

Build and Interface

Following the design of Series Ten, this updated version comes in at under 10mm slim, resulting in a slender profile on your arm, convenient to tuck beneath shirt sleeves and more comfortable at night.

This 2,000-nit OLED screen remains sufficiently luminous for viewing inside and outside, staying legible to read off-angle, enabling taking a peek for timekeeping or notifications straightforward.

The surface features with glass that is significantly more durable compared to previous models, although not as hard as sapphire, which is reserved on the pricier titanium editions.

Performance and Battery

The new watch features the same S10 chip found in earlier versions but now supports 5G connectivity option and improved connectivity for those times when you're in the wilderness.

Power cells have increased in capacity by 9% and 11% in the 42 millimeter and 46mm watches respectively.

Larger model lasted a good two full days in testing featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.

Most people can nearly be able to track two days and two nights prior to requiring power, which takes about 66 minutes employing 20W or more powerful adapter (sold separately), hitting about 70 percent in half an hour.

Should you go out for a run, the device can continue around 8 hours of tracking, which is long enough for a marathon or extended activities.

Technical Specifications

• Size options: Two size variants
• Profile depth: Under 10mm
• Weight: around 30 to 37g
• Chip: S10
• Memory: 64 gigabytes
• Operating system: latest watchOS
• Waterproof rating: 50 metres (5 atmospheres)
• Health tracking: Heart rate, ECG, Blood oxygen, Temperature, Depth gauge, Microphone, Speaker, NFC, GNSS, Compass, altimeter
• Communication options: Bluetooth technology, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, 5G cellular option

Operating System Updates

The Series 11 ships with the latest watchOS, functioning on every version since the sixth generation and subsequent.

This includes recently introduced Liquid Glass design, creating most elements somewhat see-through, and adds additional display styles: a big digital interface titled Flow reacting to motion and an analogue face titled Exactograph, that separates hours, minutes and seconds into individual displays.

The most impressive innovation involves wrist movements, involving quick rotation your hand backward and reversing to dismiss things and go back to the main interface.

The feature operates without raising your wrist to view the screen, meaning you can dismiss alarms with a satisfying flick of the wrist.

Health and Fitness Tracking

The wearable device includes an extensive health monitoring suite of capabilities available in prior generations plus including several fresh capabilities along with updated fitness program.

High BP warnings look for signs of elevated BP through extended monitoring, notifying you to get yourself checked out when pulse information suggests you may have underlying conditions.

Updated sleep scoring enhances rest analysis simpler to understand, comparable to rivals including various manufacturers.

Each morning the device displays a score out of 100 that is broken down into three categories: sleep length, timing and disturbances, all being self-explanatory and available in the Health app through your mobile also.

Workout buddy functions as intelligent training employing your historical exercise information to give you encouragement before and after workouts, such as recognising previous running sessions regular activity patterns plus intensity measurement you achieved.

Also featuring audible heads-up upon achieving particular goals throughout activities, such as a particular pace, cardiac rhythm, range, period or other metrics.

There is a choice of three voices, which speak to you over Bluetooth headphones connected to your watch across twelve exercise types, including walking, running or cycling.

However, it only works if you have with you recent smartphones alongside, which I found irritating prompting abandonment of the feature to avoid being encumbered with a phone on runs.

Eco-Friendly Features

The manufacturer states energy storage maintains over one thousand complete charging sessions with at least 80% of initial performance and can be replaced at £95 cost.

Fixings require between £295 and £389 based on specific version.

Materials include more than 40% reused components including aluminium, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, lithium, uncommon minerals, steel, tin elements, {titanium|