I am the one person in the Linus Media Group building
who has been using this, the Apple Watch Ultra One,
for the last year. So the ShortCircuit team thought that I might be
a good person to do an unboxing over here
and let y'all know what we think of it. I actually saw on Twitter a few days ago,
Snazzy, shout out Quinn, was saying that the Watch Ultra Two
is the most premium unboxing experience that Apple has right now.
I'm excited to see what's in store. Obviously, we have our watch charging cable here
and the watch right over here as well. We'll get into that in a moment.
It also comes obviously with the loop. This one is the Hook and Loop Closure Trail Loop.
They have the Alpine Loop as well and an Ocean Loop.
I actually use the Alpine on my Apple Watch Ultra One.
Really like that. It's broken in nicely, super comfy for day to day use
and I do like the olive green that they have on there.
So let's see what the differences are between the Alpine and the Trail.
So this is the Trail Loop. Just super simple Velcro Hook and Loop style.
It does look like this one's a medium slash large.
So it should be good for any variety of wrist sizes.
I use the large on the Alpine so this one should be perfectly fine.
And boom, right on there. So yeah, having tried the Alpine band with the one
and the Trail band now with the two. I definitely prefer the Alpine band.
I feel like it gives you a little bit more flexibility but if you're somebody who is an ultra marathon runner
or somebody who's out running trails every day and you need your watch to be securely attached to your wrist
I assume the Trail band is gonna work just as well for you there as well.
Obviously when it comes to Apple you're always looking for a premium on books and experience.
So they of course include some fun marketing materials
just in case your friends are over and they wanna look at which ultra band they want.
Looks like it has a Boutier. Wow, three microphone, array, crown guard, GPS, action button.
It's international orange. Wow, they've chosen international orange
for the visibility of the button but if you're looking at the button
doesn't that sort of defeat the whole purpose of the button being convenient?
Wow, yep, this is a marketing booklet in your $1,000 watch that you just bought.
I love it. So one of the small differences between the Ultra One
and the Ultra Two is the weight. So let's take out our handy dandy scale
and see what we see. First up our watch Ultra One comes in at 62 grams
and our watch Ultra Two comes in at 62 grams.
We're rounding up for whatever reason on this scale apparently the watch Ultra One is 61.3 grams
the watch Ultra Two is 61.4 grams but if you're somebody who can tell that difference
on your wrist then I probably owe you dinner. Just to get through a full suite of accessories
in the box here we have the charging cable.
Frankly in 2023 if you don't have one of the multi-device wireless chargers at your bedside
I don't know what you're doing. I have the three piece one for the iPhone, AirPods
and watch works awesome, love it. But if you're not one of the people that has that
you have a sufficiently large charging cable.
Look at that, that looks about what like yeah two and a half feet, three feet, something like that.
If you need it, it's there, it's nicely braided. I think it's exactly the same one that was in the Ultra One.
Doing a quick little side by side there. Wow, basically the same, both are 49 millimeters
both have the same display size and resolution
but the watch Ultra Two actually has 50% more brightness.
So the watch Ultra One is 2,000 nits, watch Ultra Two is 3,000 nits.
All right, so if you've ever paired a watch before this should look pretty standard for an Apple user
set up for myself. And then we just do the fun dot exercise here.
And it's paired, it just works.
Hi, I'm Siri, choose the voice you'd like me to. Hi, I'm Siri, choose the voice.
Hi, I'm Siri, choose the voice you'd like me to use.
None of those are great to be honest with you but we're going voice for.
So, oh yeah, so this is one of the fun things about the Apple Watch Ultra, both one and two,
you get your action button. So you can have it set up for your workouts,
stopwatch, waypoint, backtrack, I don't even know what that is.
Oh, cool, so backtrack is the feature where you can basically track where you've parked
or where you came from or wherever else. You know, if you're somebody who like me
gets lost in parking garages sometimes, this is actually quite helpful. You can have it set up for dive if you're a diver
and flashlight, I think we'll leave it on flashlight. For me, it might surprise you
but I have it set up for the workout option on my side.
Super convenient, just hit that one button, boom, select.
Does it really meaningfully change your life? No, absolutely not.
But is it a cool little fun party trick? Yeah, it is, if you spent $1,500 on the watch,
you'll want to use it, it's all good. Welcome to Apple Watch, wow, thank you.
So since it's one of the new advertised features and we just set it up in the action button,
let's try the flashlight.
Boom, flash bang. One of the big advertised features on the Watch Ultra 2
is flashlight boost. Since it has a 3000 nit display,
you can now get a little bit more out of the flashlight. The first thing that I did when I opened up
the flashlight app on my Watch Ultra 1 was to try to adjust the crown to adjust the brightness
so this makes sense. So just for a quick brightness comparison,
we'll throw the flashlights on on both. It's tough to see here, the Watch 2 is, you know,
it is significantly brighter. Is it gonna be the difference between seeing something
if you're on a totally dark trail and not seeing it? I think it'll be fine with 2000 nits, but is it brighter?
Yes, it is brighter. Another one of the advertised features for this device
was Siri on device for offline increase.
So turn in off the Wi-Fi and then,
what do we do, Siri, right? Hey, where's the closest Burger King?
There we go. It is GPS enabled, so if you're somebody
who goes off the grid or whatever, you'll still have access to all your GPS data.
So I would imagine that's how they're pulling in information about where something is
when you're in offline Siri mode, pretty cool.
So one of the other big things they talked about
with the new watch was the four core neural engine.
So we'll just do a quick little Siri side-by-side here of dictation between Watch Ultra 1 and Watch Ultra 2.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Here's what I found.
There's the other one back on line. Here's what I found.
I'm a bit confused because the Watch Ultra 2
appears to be quite a bit slower in actual dictation than my Watch Ultra 1.
So it's possible that Siri's just always listening to me
and knows my voice at this point, even though I never try to talk to her,
either that or maybe there is some weirdness in the background where the setup process
is still happening with the Watch Ultra 2 just because we've set it up during the shoot.
It was about 10 minutes ago that we actually did the process. Let's just try setting a timer or something
I would be doing on a day-to-day basis while cooking or whatever. Set a timer for 38 minutes.
38 minutes, 38 minutes, counting time. All right, there's our advertised features.
Another one of the big upgrades for the new one is that it doubled the storage. So the Watch Ultra 1 had 32 gigs.
Watch Ultra 2 has 64. If you just want to bring your watch
and not have your phone with you, connect that to your AirPods.
That's obviously going to be beneficial for music or podcasts or whatever it is, audiobooks,
whatever you're listening to on the trails. And if you're not on the trails and you're just out in the bush
and you need something to keep you warm, you could go to LTT Store and get this amazing
plaid flannel shirt. It's got pockets. Can you see this?
Has pockets. I need to sell some plaids. Buy a plaid.
Another thing that Apple focused on a lot was the double tap gesture.
So I believe it's something like this.
Oh yeah, okay, here we go. Double pinch to play.
Play, double pinch, okay. Well, it might not be playing the music,
but the function is working. So that's cool.
Look at that. I got your whole house on my wrist, baby.
Let's go. Is it worth it? For me, I would honestly say no.
I wouldn't even recommend you pay money for the first one. It was a very specific situation
that brought me to actually buying an Apple Watch Ultra I and under most circumstances,
I just straight up would never spend that much money on a watch.
If you're somebody who cares a lot about having the latest tech and you already have a Watch Ultra,
I do not think you need to update to the Watch Ultra II to be totally frank.
For me, I'm gonna be sticking with my Watch Ultra I. I think this thing is gonna last a number of years.
I mean, I had the series four for probably six or seven years before I moved up to this one.
The finish on the titanium is a little bit prone to marks.
I've seen some other people say that they haven't had that experience.
So maybe it's just a me thing. Maybe I'm just super clumsy. Maybe I just smack into door handles
more than other people do. It does show some wear,
but at the end of the day, I think it's a fantastic looking watch. I really do like the finish.
There are some great accessories. Like I have this Nomad titanium band
that is a great match for either the Watch I
or the Watch II. And I wouldn't recommend it for most people, but if you are somebody that does care about this stuff,
you are somebody that feels like it's necessary to have the latest and greatest,
you're not gonna listen to me anyway. Just go buy the damn thing. Make sure to watch some of the other content
that we have on the channel. I think Sarah just did an awesome video about the iPhone 15.
Will I be getting one? Absolutely not. Too damn expensive. I still have a tall Formax that works perfectly well.
But yeah, if you wanna check that out, feel free. Over there, down there, over there, wherever, somewhere.