- I've been daily driving the Apple Watch Series 5
for many months now,
but the Series 6 is about as unexcited as I've been
for a daily driver update in
my memory.
Now part of it is that the Apple Watch Series 6
is just not a very big update.
So you get the new S6 processor,
but from what I've seen people talking about so far,
daily use is pretty much unchanged.
You get an altimeter so you can tell how high you are.
You get, actually,
that would be a useful feature for a lot of people.
You get a blood oxygen monitor.
Although there's a fair bit of debate as to
you know, how accurate it is.
And you get a brighter always on display.
Now I'm a big fan of always on displays.
And in fact,
that's one of the reasons
that I wear an Apple Watch Series 5 on the daily.
Not because I daily drive an iPhone.
I happen to be daily driving an iPhone right now
cause I'm working on my 12 Pro review.
But normally I don't.
I just use it as a watch.
And it's sort of my,
it's my protest against
the deplorable state of Android wearables.
If Android device makers could make a better one
then I would switch to that.
This device serves no purpose
other than for me to tell the time.
Now, technically it does still have all
the same fitness tracking capabilities
that it would if it were paired to an iPhone.
It's just that I find them quite frankly, pretty useless.
Half the time I'm in the middle of a really intense workout.
I'm moving around a turn,
my heart rate is at like 185 and it's like,
"Hey, why don't you stand up for a bit"?
And the other half the time I'm driving
and it's like, "Great workout, Linus.
Keep it up."
Okay.
The stupid part is, again, back to
the deplorable state of Android wearables,
my experience with it has been better than any other one,
as far as fitness tracking goes.
All right, let's open this puppy up.
Wow.
That's a,
huh, that's an Apple watch, all right.
One thing I would have been really happy with though is
the quality of this just like generic fabric strap
that they include.
I guess I shouldn't call it generic.
For a Velcro like material
this has held up incredibly well
to, I guess, almost a year of use.
Like it still works just exactly like the day I got it.
And it's not all fuzzy on the spot where it always sticks.
- [David] It's called Vel-pro.
- Vel Pro and then there's Vel SE.
It's like, not quite as good.
- [David] Yeah.
- Okay, we've currently got 44.
Wow.
Oh crap.
If this Series 5 wasn't greasy,
it would be quite hard to tell the difference.
Okay, it's got, I've got a matte finish,
matte finish on the Series 6.
Other than that, these things are darn near identical.
You got the one button.
You've got the crown.
You still got the little red accent on the crown.
Same watch strap attachment mechanism.
I love that this is tool less.
Like that is a,
that is a big deal
not having to fiddle around with a little weird tool
or screwdriver or anything like that.
Like why did that take the watch industry, you know,
200 years or whatever?
One other key giveaway actually,
is if you look at the sensor array on the back
it does look a little bit different.
So the Series 6 the altimeter is obviously not something
that needs to go right up against your skin,
but the blood oxygen monitor presumably is part of this new
and updated looking sensor array.
There's some software updates too.
First, let's pair it to the phone though.
Start pairing.
I love this process so much.
Oh, that's cool.
So set up for a family member.
This is interesting.
One of the new software features
that they launched with the Series 6 is
the ability to buy an Apple Watch for your kid
instead of having them equipped with a cell phone
and then you can set it up as a managed device.
So I thought that was pretty neat.
I love this.
This is Apple's fancy QR code.
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Let's actually talk about the Apple Watch SE.
So it replaces the Series 5 in their lineup.
It comes in a little over $100 cheaper than the Series 6.
And the main difference is that it uses
the older S5 processor.
It does not have the new blood oxygen tracking feature,
aLthough does have the altimeter.
And where the Series 6 gets a brighter always on display.
The SE does not have always on display at all.
So in my honest opinion,
Apple shouldn't call this the Apple Watch SE.
They should call it the Apple wrist ornament that is blank,
except when you do the silly gesture
and they shouldn't be allowed to call it a watch at all.
That was one of the big things
that made me super happy about the Series 5,
was that it finally had an always on display.
So if you want to save a hundred bucks or so
this is an option, but personally I would go out
and try and find a secondhand Series 5 so you get
that always on display
because otherwise the only difference here is that
this one has the altimeter and the Series 5 doesn't.
So unless you do a whole lot of like high vertical biking
or jogging or whatever.
Or else I don't see a ton of value to it.
Oh, that's interesting.
Oh, I saw some claiming online that as part of
Apple's eco-friendly policy of not including charters,
there was no charger included,
but you do get the wireless like dock thing for it.
It's just that you don't get a wall wart.
But I actually thought there was no wall wart included
with the previous one.
So I am not sure what to tell you guys about that,
other than that there is no wall wart included
if you were expecting one.
But with something like the watch, honestly,
it doesn't really bother me that much.
By the time you're the kind of person
that has like wearable devices,
I would expect you to pretty much have a USB charging hub
or even a wireless,
like multi wireless dock sitting on your nightstand.
Neat, I haven't touched the Apple Watch app
in quite some time.
So I can change my colors.
Ooh, look at that.
I've changed my colors.
I can change the background of the watch face.
Hello?
Oh, nice.
This unicorn is tremendous though.
I would like a pink unicorn.
Oh, you can't change the color of the unicorn,
only the background.
Dang it Apple.
Since there weren't
a lot of groundbreaking hardware updates,
it makes sense to focus more on the software updates.
So there's a sleep tracker now.
It'll tell you how long you were in bed
and how long you slept for.
Although it doesn't have quite
the same amount of information
as some other third party sleep tracking softwares.
That actually ties in really nicely with
the slightly faster charger.
It'll apparently fully charge in about two hours
meaning that you can kind of, you know,
sip charge it here and there in order to try
and take advantage of those sleep tracking features.
They've got some new fitness features.
So you can have preset workouts now.
And there's apparently a hand-washing timer.
I wanna find that,
like handwashing,
handwashing app, David.
Apple Watch can detect when you're washing your hands
and start a 2O second timer.
Can I get some sound effects here?
(David and Jono making running water sounds)
You're not doing well enough.
You're not doing a good enough job.
(indistinct)
Nope.
- [David] Does it need to get wet?
- Yeah, maybe it needs to get wet.
LTTStore.com, I need a water bottle.
Here we go.
I'm turning on the top.
Right there, oh, slowly, slowly.
We gotta make it last for a bit.
It's got to start a Siri.
Why is Siri coming up right now?
Yeah, we're just about out of water now.
Okay.
All right, well it was worth the shot, thanks Brendan.
- Sure.
- Fitness plus service is coming.
So it's going to be like fitness tracking
and workout videos.
I mean, good luck with that.
Let's go ahead and try the blood oxygen measurement.
How do I do it, like now?
- [David] Ahh, someone should strangle you.
- Ahhh, Wow.
Tell me how you really feel.
Oh, here it is, blood oxygen.
Tracking my blood oxygen
98%.
Ouch.
- [David] Three.
- Well, how many is that?
That's gotta be six already. - No that's three.
(technical team laughing)
- Four. - Yeah.
Come on.
(Linus breathing heavily)
And this,
this is why
my Apple Watch that I do daily drive
is not connected to anything.
If you can't trust it, how can you make
like personal health decisions based on it?
If it works a third of the time.
My blood pressure is probably going up
just being frustrated by this thing not working right.
To be clear, Apple's not pitching
the blood oxygen thing as it's a medical device.
They're saying that it's like,
well, it's there.
It's not like FDA approved or anything like that.
It's just
it's in there.
- [Jono] Can we use an Apple Watch with and Android device?
- No, unfortunately you can't.
That's one of the things I'd really like
to see Apple clue into at some point
that customers who don't buy it right
or buy the entire ecosystem are still potential customers.
I would actually love
to use an Apple Watch with my Android phone.
That could be an amazing experience.
There's a lot of things that I love about what Apple does
and the watch is frankly, one of them.
I mean, the hardware is just,
even though they've barely touched this design in like what?
Five years or six years or whatever it is,
it's still so much better than what
anyone who's not cloning Apple is doing that.
I, yeah, I would,
I would absolutely love
to use an Apple Watch with my Android phone.
So there's not a lot new here,
which has some people questioning the need for Apple
to even continue with annual releases.
But I think I can probably provide some insight into that.
One of the things that we've discovered running LTTstore.com
LTTstore.com,
is that one of the best promotional things
that you can do is launch a new product.
It works way better than offering a discount
or a shipping promotion
or even conventional marketing,
because that's what gets people interested
and talking like what's new?
Not like what already existed,
but is probably a good product and good value?
So even though the new Apple Watch
just has a slightly better processor,
slightly brighter ambient display,
it's about the same price.
So
yeah, I guess better is better.
I'm not gonna complain about it.
And I understand why they're doing it
so that we'll all talk about it.
Cause I wasn't going to make another video about
the Series 5, right?
And yet here I am with the Series 6,
even though it's like, eh.
- [Jono] And the SE.
- And the SE.
Yeah, but the SE doesn't have an always on display
so it's not a watch. - Oh, really?
- Yeah, it's the stupid gesture nonsense again.
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Here, let's try it again.
Let's try again.
No, we're not going to try it again.
Okay, I'm going to try.
I'm going to try it one more time.
One more time without the water.
You ready, David?
- [David] Yep.
- Yeah, Jono, can you do the sound effects for me?
Hold on.
- [David] Ask him whether it's automatic.
- Did I turn the faucet, Jono?
- [Jono] I'm sorry, it's automatic.
- Okay, okay, you ready?
(Jono making running water sounds)
- [Jono] Where is the soap?
(Jono laughing)
- We're trying here.
The smiling fricking unicorn taunting me.