The Apple Watch Series 7 will be unveiled in a few weeks and given the rumors that are repeated, it seems we are heading for a redesign of form rather than substance.
In his newsletter Power On of the weekend, Mark Gurman reiterates that the watch will be available in two new sizes of 41 and 45 mm instead of the current 40/44 mm (38/42 mm before the arrival of Series 4).
It makes no mention of compatibility with current bracelets, as if to mean that there is no need to worry about it. As has already been said elsewhere, one can reasonably hope for continuity in this compatibility.
The new generation Apple Watch will have straighter edges, a screen that is now laminated and less rounded at the edges and above all of a larger dimension. Copies of this as yet unannounced product have already started to circulate.
An increase in display area which, according to the journalist from Bloomberg, will be the opportunity to have many new dials specific to this family. This was already the case during the previous case change, some new dials were reserved for them, like the Infographics and their many places for complications. The Modular Infograph variant would be revised on this occasion to take advantage of the Series 7 screens.
A new processor must be added to this menu. Beyond that and unless Apple managed to keep a rabbit hidden in its hat, there wouldn’t be much to expect on health functions. It would be a blank year, says Gurman. Where competitors like Fitbit and Samsung have just added to their new models a tool for measuring stress as well as skin temperature for one and a body composition sensor for the other, Apple would have nothing. significant for this time.
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We would have to wait for the next generation before having a body temperature measurement function already mentioned by the rumor. On the Series 6, Apple had ticked a new health box by integrating the measurement of SpO2 (pulsed oxygen saturation / oxygen level in the blood).
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