Oh, goody. Why do I have to do the Apple
watches this time?
Did nobody else volunteer to look at pretty much the same watch, but slightly
more different? In all seriousness, there are some significant upgrades to
the Apple Watch 2025 series. And we're going to start with the Ultra, which is
probably got the upgrade that would be the most meaningful to me. I have never
unboxed an Ultra before. This is my first time. mountains. I'm feeling
suddenly inspired to brave nature in VR
from the comfort of my living room. Okay, maybe the Apple Watch Ultra is not
made for me. But there is some cool stuff here. Starting with, of course,
the fact that now in addition to 5G connectivity like the rest of their 2025
lineup, the Apple Watch Ultra features satellite SOS, just like the full-sized
iPhone. That means that if you are ever in dire straits, somewhere in the
wilderness, middle of nowhere, you should theoretically have the ability to
summon help. That's pretty darn cool.
Both also feature the ability to monitor for hypertension. Unfortunately, this is
not included in the new SE3, but that
doesn't mean that the SE3 is going to be a major downer either. In fact, it looks
like the most compelling Apple SE series watch yet. Let's take a closer look at
the Ultra. I have seen them on people's wrists, but
I have never actually worn one. My god, is it ever heavy. That is a fat watch.
And I say this coming from a freaking OnePlus whatever this is. It's not
actually any bigger than my daily driver, but it's so heavy. And they used
that weight to pack it with cool tech. It features a new wide-angle LTPO
display that can reach up to 3,000 nits.
That's compared to 2,000 nits on the Series 11 and 1,000 nits on the SE3.
Now, under most circumstances, you won't need 3,000 nits, but you have an Apple
Watch Ultra. Can I get a dude perfect? Yeah.
But if you're on a mountain peak where there's less atmosphere to absorb the
rays of the sun and you need that full brightness because you're an adventurer,
the Apple Watch Ultra 3 will be there for you. Let's put the watch strap on.
God, it's heavy. Wait, no, sorry. Let's do this first. This is cool. Apple
claims that you can get 12 freaking hours of battery life on just a
15-minute charge, which really does make the sleep tracking features that they've
added way more usable. Because if you
have to put it on your nightstand to charge, then obviously it's not going to
be able to do a very good job of tracking things like how often you wake
up, how long you take to fall asleep, all of those useful sleep tracking
features. But I don't think I'd want to wear something this size on my wrist
when I'm sleeping anyway. And besides, I already have a sleep tracking mattress.
I don't need another thing in my life to tell me that I don't sleep properly. I
haven't used an Apple Watch in a while, dude. It's got so many flipping buttons
now. So, I got Okay, this one. Neat. I
can press the digital crown and also scroll it. Okay, I've got my action
button over here on the left. Got three flipping microphones for beam forming
and wind noise mitigation. That unfortunately is not present on the
regular Series 11 or the SE3. What else can we say about the Ultra? That really
is quite a large display on your wrist, isn't it? Oh,
I see what they've done here. It's got like a guard so you won't accidentally
rotate the digital crown as often, but it's not too bad. I bet I could get used
to that. This is cool, though. I was just kind of touching the metal frame of
the watch and I remembered the new Ultra 3 is actually made with 3D printed
recycled titanium. That's pretty cool. And oh, and so are Series 11s in the
titanium option. It's just that the Ultra 3 is only made out of titanium.
Man, I've been all over the place in this unboxing. Belle's trying to keep up. Just like he could try and keep up
with the battery life of the Apple Watch Ultra 3. They're claiming 42 hours of
regular use, up to 72 hours in low power mode, and up to 14 hours of high
frequency vitals tracking during fitness. Dude, if you're the kind of
person who can actually engage in physical fitness for 14 hours, just
throw away the health tracking monitor. You're doing fine. If anything, you
might be overdoing it. Which is why all Apple watches include fall detection. Is
this workout buddy? Welcome to workout. New navigation. Quickly access workout
options like goals, music, workout views, and alerts. You can scroll to
other workout types. Do they have badminton yet? Uh, add workout. Yeah,
that's what I just said. Oh, damn. There it is. Let's go.
Apple. Apple, you might have just won me
back. Boom. In this type of workout, you
earn the calorie equivalent of a brisk walk at a minimum. You can earn more
based on sensor data. Brisk walk, please. Well, they did say minimum. They
did say minimum, though. One of the big new features is Apple's new workout
buddy. The idea is that it uses Apple intelligence from your paired phone to
give you personalized words of encouragement during your workouts. I'm
not sure if I fully understand the difference between this and that one
time that I was driving down the highway and my Apple Watch buzz to tell me,
"Great job. Keep it up with your uh cycling." But AI, it makes everything
better, right? Oh, this is cool. It now has higher precision GPS with the idea
being that it will be able to more accurately track your cycling or walking
or running or whatever the case may be. You can tell from the marketing that
it's really designed to be the ultimate companion for the outdoors person or
extremely fitnessoriented person. Unlike the SE and Series 11, which I might as
well just start opening at this point, which are rated for water resistance to
50 m and IP6X, respectively, meaning
full submersion and basically the good stuff. The Ultra 3 is rated for like
extreme water sports, meaning that it could have like a jet of water from
freaking going flying off of your seed or whatever. And theoretically shouldn't
die, but who knows, maybe it will. What am I looking at here? Series 11 SE and
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same accessories, so that is to say, a USBC to Apple Watch wireless charger.
Uh, but these have a lot more differences between them than the Ultra
does with the Series 11. Let's talk about that. The Series 11 gets the same
sapphire glass and wide-angle LTPO display, albeit only to 2,000 nits max,
while the SC3 gets a regular LTPO display, no sapphire glass, and only
a,000 nits peak brightness. And the Series 11 boasts a wider suite of
sensors, including water temperature sensing as well as blood oxygen level
monitoring. You can even just see on the back that it has a lot more sensors in
it. In terms of the wearability, both of these are frankly, in my opinion, a lot
better than the watch Ultra, so they have that in common. And all three of
the new watches use the same S10 chip as last year, which was a little bit
disappointing to me. Both the Series 11 and the Watch Ultra 3 have the ultra
wideband precise location sensing with Bluetooth, so you can use the Find My
app to find your devices more easily, which has been very handy for me at
times in the past. I had someone at a resort once put my AirPods up in one of
the equipment closets for reasons that
never became clear to me and I can only assume where to stash it to take them
away later. Uh, but I was able to find them thanks to the Find My app and I
would have been able to find them faster if I'd had the UWB chip in any of my
devices. Looks like our SE is dead. So, let's go ahead and charge it up. In the
meantime, we can talk about the differences in Apple's claimed battery life. They say 24 hours of regular use
for the Series 11 with only 18 hours for
the SE3. With that said, that finally,
thank you, Apple, includes always on
display for the first time in their SE lineup. I have always been of the mind
that a watch is not a watch unless you can always tell the time on it, even
when you are subtly sneaking a peak during an extended social interaction,
for instance. This makes the Apple Watch SE3 the first of their SE's that I would
consider to even be a watch. Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead. If you can't tell the
time, it's not a watch. Stay on. Oh my
god, you guys. Wait, it is charged. >> Okay, check this out. Okay, straight on.
Yeah, they're both kind of compensating for the brightness in here. About the same. Okay, that's the same angle,
buddy. That is very noticeable. Man, the SC3 is
so light, though. Given that I really don't give two hoots about all of the
like sleep tracking, blood tracking, health tracking stuff. I feel like this
would be my one. I just Man, it's always on now, which is good. But I do wish the
display was a little brighter. Can she go any brighter than this? And they look
the same. So, I guess we're not going to be able to tell the difference cuz obviously both of them have ambient
light sensors and we are not pushing them to their limits. You know what? I'm
going to go outside and look at them and I'll be right back and I'll let you know
how different they feel. I think it's sunny, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Nice. In conclusion, all
three are very readable in outdoor conditions, even in direct sunlight. But
the Ultra 3 is the most readable, but 2,000 nits is enough that I didn't
wouldn't really bother me at all. This is a little bit on the dimmer side,
though. Now, let's fire up our flashlights for reasons that will become
very clear in a second. Oh my god. Just stay bright. That's what
I'm talking about. People are making a pretty big deal out of how big the
bezels are on the SE3 and they are
they are bigger than the Series 11. Although, I got to say, I don't think I
would care that much if it wasn't for the fact that this hurts the
functionality of the device. Apple has deemed this to be simply too small of a
display for a querty keyboard. So, if you want to be able to text people from
your wrist using a full keyboard, you will need to spring for the Series 11 or
the Ultra 3, which is probably important to the market Apple's targeting here.
While the Ultra 3's marketing focuses on adventure folk and thrillsekers, the SE3
is clearly going after the parents of kids going, "Hey, look, did you know
that you can use it with no SIM, but with full cellular functionality? All of
them have 5G, Bluetooth 5.3, so full cellular connectivity. They can get
their own phone number and you can manage their watch and their ability to
make calls and text people from your iPhone without them even owning an
iPhone. It's not a new functionality for the Apple Watch, but it is one that I
could see a lot of parents being interested in, and I guess it being the
most affordable of the new lineup. This is probably the one you'd want to get for your kids who are probably going to
crack it or lose it. The SE3 starts at $2.49 49 with the Series 11 starting at
$400 and the Ultra 3 being $800
before you buy a fancy designer band for it or whatever it is that you do with
your Apple Watch. As for where I would land between these three, there's no way
I'd spring for the Ultra, which means it's between $250 and $400 for what is
for me a lot of the same functionality. Man, I I think I'd probably spend the
extra 150 bucks for the Series 11, though. Then when I'm done with it,
it'll have like more sensors and stuff for like my grandparents that I give it
to, you know, even if I don't care about that stuff. It'll keep it current a lot
longer. But if I was buying something for a dependent, this would definitely
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