![]() They explained on stage during the announcement that it’s really hard to make something water resistant that has a speaker in it. Normal people would refer to that as waterproof, but these things have technical definitions so we’ll call it water resistant. If you care about swimming, you care deeply that the Series 2 Apple Watch is now water resistant to 50m depth. The amazing thing is that Apple says that the new Series 2 watch has the same 18 hour battery life as the original Apple Watch even with that built-in GPS. I don’t know that I’m representative of most users because people were clamoring for GPS. ![]() And then there was the time I was simply walking in the neighborhood when I tripped and smacked my head on the concrete and I was pretty glad to have my phone with me to immediately call Steve. Personally I never go anywhere without my phone because I like to get notifications, I like to be able to take photos and on really rare occasions I actually get phone calls on my iPhone. This matters if you want to track your location and not carry your phone with you. The Series 2 has a built-in GPS, while the original Apple Watch must rely on the GPS in the iPhone. While the Series 2 is noticeably brighter than the Series 0, I don’t see a 2x improvement, but maybe more like 50% brighter. That was entertaining and all but I eventually enlisted Steve to help me take a good photo to capture the difference. The only way I could do this was to set the focus and exposure by using my NOSE on my iPhone’s camera! I hope you appreciate the trouble I go to for you guys. I tried to get them at the same angle in the sunlight to see if the difference was really as perceptible as the 2X brightness numbers would suggest. I put the two watches on my wrist and tried to take a photo of them both at the same time. ![]() It’s especially hard as I have to wear sunglasses, because I can’t see the watch without them. This did sound pretty good to me, as I have a heck of a time seeing my watch screen in broad daylight. Even though it has the same screen resolution, it’s supposed to be 1000nits of brightness, which is more than double the 450 Nits of the Series 0. The Series 2 has what they’re calling a second generation OLED Retina Display. Now that I’ve had it for a week, I thought it would be interesting to walk through the features of the Series 2 to see whether there’s enough there to make you want to upgrade from the original (Series 0) Apple Watch. I bought it anyway, mostly because Steve wanted to get a new one, and I had the dreaded FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). When the Apple Watch Series 2 was announced, it didn’t sound like that big of an upgrade to me from the original watch. ![]()
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