Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech
And today apple released the apple watch series seven.
I have my hands on one here. You can see it's the stainless steel version,
but there's three versions available now.
And there's aluminum stainless steel and titanium.
So the aluminum comes in at $399.
You have two different sizes for all of the different watch models.
You have 41 and 45 millimeters this year.
So $399 or for the larger size it's $429.
If you want cellular on the lower models at $100. However,
the stainless steel models and titanium edition models come with cellular
already. So those are $699 and $749 for the stainless steel.
And then you can go well over a thousand for titanium,
depending on the band that you get.
This is the $749 version and this actually just has the basic
band with it since I'll probably change that out after.
So we'll go ahead and unbox this,
take a look at it and set it up and see what it's all about.
So here's the apple watch box and it doesn't really look any different than
before we just pull these pull tabs and it opens up like this,
and then it has our watch in it and our band.
So I just got a simple band this time. It's the abyss blue band solo loop.
We'll set that aside and here's the watch itself.
So we'll set the wrapper or the packaging aside and let's take a look at it.
So we've got some pull tabs here, so we'll pull these off
and on the end you can see it says series seven, graphite stainless steel case.
So let's go ahead and open it up.
We'll take the top off here and I'm not sure I'll be replacing my Titanium
Edition series 6,
but I'll have to make a determination after a couple of days use or so,
or a week or so. Let's open this up here for the box we'll release.
There we go.
And here is the series seven apple lodge. So here's the paperwork.
Let's take a look. If there's anything in here, different,
we just have how to open the band or put the band on.
And then your typical paperwork that comes with it with battery charging,
handling, and safety,
and more now inside this cable should be a little bit different this year to
charge the apple watch. And let's open it up here.
And I say that it's different because this year it's USB-C.
So while there's no charger in the box,
they do give you a USB-C cable this year, instead of USB-A.
So you have that along with your typical charger. And again,
this is a stainless steel watch version.
So you have a stainless steel charging puck.
So you'll see here that it's just kind of an aluminum,
or maybe it's just aluminum this year. It used to be a shiny stainless steel.
I thought it had a wrapper around it.
So it just appears to be aluminum this year. Nothing special there.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the watch itself.
So here's the watch and the difference between stainless steel and titanium
is the stainless steel is shiny.
So where the titanium is more of a matte finish.
So it's a little bit different that way. So let's slide this out here.
Let's see if we can get this out. There we go.
And here is the watch itself. So as we look around it,
I accidentally booted it up already. But as we look around,
it's not really any different than last year.
We have the same sensors and everything. And if we get closer,
you'll see that it says series 7, 45 millimeters, stainless steel.
So no differences there, it will fit the same bands that you already have.
And you'll see it's booting up now. And so let me add a band to this.
Maybe I'll change it out later on, but this is the titanium nomad band.
I really like to use these usually,
and I may have to get something different since I'm not sure they'll match 100%,
but that gives you an idea of what it looks like there let's go ahead and set
the apple watch up. So we'll go ahead and hit continue.
And it says set up apple watch. So we have the series seven apple watch here.
We want to set it up for myself.
And then we're going to position this camera over the code
here,
or the kind of a QR code type thing that's going on on the apple watch.
Let's see if we can get this to recognize. There we go.
And it says your apple watches paired.
So it says restore from a backup or set up as a new apple watch will restore
from a backup and let's pick my current one and it actually
doesn't have a backup for my current one. So I'll set it up as new.
I don't mind doing that. We'll go ahead and hit,
set up as new and we'll give it just a moment.
And it says connecting to your apple watch. This may take a moment.
So we'll wait for that. And let me take off the titanium version
and we can take a closer look between the two of them.
So it's asking me to agree to terms and conditions. We'll do that.
We'll hit agree. Wait for it just a moment.
And it says signing into your account. This may take a few minutes.
Now I've taken the bands off so we can take a closer look together.
And just a moment, let's go through our settings some more here or set up.
We'll hit, okay for shared settings.
And now it's asking if I want bold text size or not. I can set this up later.
Of course, it's just set to default. We'll hit continue.
And then it's asking me to put in a passcode. So I'll do that.
It's asking if I want to keep my apple watch up to date manually or
automatically. I'll do it manually here. We'll give it a moment.
Now it's asking if I want to set up apple pay.
I'll set this up later and then emergency SOS.
You can press and hold the side button to call emergency services.
This will also send a message to your emergency emergency contacts.
It also has fall detection and we'll go ahead and hit continue.
And then it's asking about cellular setup. I'll go ahead and set it up now.
And now it says, installing will be ready soon.
So we'll go ahead and hit continue. It's got an always on display.
We'll hit continue, and it says install available apps. I'll choose those later.
And it's showing what kind of app view I like. I like the list view.
So I'll select that and it says apple watch is sinking.
And then you can get to know your watch and go through all of the different
things about apple watch series seven. So you can see it's sinking here.
And the first thing I noticed is the display is definitely larger.
That's easy to see here on the other one. Let me unlock it.
This is a 45 millimeter versus the 44 millimeter from last year.
It's 20% more screen area than the series six.
And that's due to borders that are reduced by 40%.
So we'll be able to see that a little bit better once it's booted up and on the
home screen. As far as the sides go, let's take a look at those.
So you can see here is a series seven versus a series six looks pretty much the
same. You also have the same sensors. Like I said before,
it looks again pretty much the same one just says,
series six on the left series seven on the right.
Nothing really is too different. However,
the speakers are slightly different here on the side.
So instead of having a little break between them,
there's no break between the speaker at all.
So that's something that's a little bit different.
So not really too much different. The microphone on the other side is the same.
I guess you can identify it by not having the little break in the center there.
So that's one thing that's slightly different between the two of them,
other than the display.
Also the weight is a little bit different with stainless steel.
It's going to be slightly heavier since titanium is a lighter metal.
You can feel that a little bit,
but it's nothing you wouldn't easily get used to. So that's something to note.
It's not really that noticeable. However, if you want a really light watch,
go for the aluminum version.
The other thing that I like about these stainless steel and titanium is they
have Sapphire crystal displays,
which are very scratch resistant after using the series six for a year,
it has zero scratches on the display whatsoever. So that's one reason I get it.
I tend to be a little bit clumsy with it and bumping into walls.
And I don't want to put a screen protector on it.
So sometimes I've bumped it into brick and it just doesn't even scratch.
So it's nice to have that.
So we'll go ahead and wait for this to complete setting up.
And then we'll take a closer look at the actual features and the display.
Now the apple watch is set up and so you can see this is the default watch face
it's Meridian, although it's not the newer watch faces.
We'll take a look at that in a moment.
But first let's go ahead and take a look at our settings and see which version
is pre-installed. So if we go to general and then about,
we can see that it is watchOS version 8.0 with a build number of 19R346.
There should be an update to this watch version as well.
Similar to what happened with the iPhone. There should be an update for that.
Now, if we go back, we'll go back home here and you can see again,
the watch face let's go over to, or let's add a watch face here.
We'll add a new one and you can see there's new watch faces. Now,
most of these are the same with watchOS eight,
but you can see the new watch faces here. So if we scroll down, there's new,
a new one that's sort of edge to edge and it's called contour.
So we'll go ahead and hit add,
and you can choose rounded or regular.
And then if we scroll through, you've got dial color,
and then you also have color. So we've got colors here.
We can pick whatever we want to match, whatever band we're using.
So we'll go to the next one. And then we have complications.
We can set on this one, calendar personalization and so on.
So that's one of the new watch faces and it goes edge to edge.
As you can see now there's also another new watch face.
So if we go over and hit new and then tap on the new watch faces,
not only do we have contour, but we also have modular duo.
So if we add modular duo, you can see add face.
And now you've got a bunch of different options for colors,
but what you have here is not only complications at the top,
but you've got double complications.
So you can change this to whatever you'd like.
And you've got a lot more room here.
So you've got all sorts of room for different information.
If you prefer this UV index, your wind and everything else.
And of course, maybe you want to go to workouts here.
You can change this one to activity or whatever. You'd like,
you have all of these different options for this complication.
And of course you can change the colors as well. However,
I think the other watch face looks a little bit better. Now,
one of the things that you'll see it wraps around the edge,
this display is noticeably larger than the other one, like I said,
and it's 70% brighter indoors with your wrists down.
So if I go back to maybe this watch face and bring in the series six,
we'll see if we can get them to go into sort of an always on display ambient
mode. Now I've got the same watch face on both, and you can see it's Meridian.
And the one on the right,
the new series seven is said to be 70% brighter when in the always on display
mode, you definitely can see it, but it's not a huge difference,
even though it's 70% more. Of course, if it's in the always on display mode,
you're probably not looking at it anyway. So that's something to note.
One way you can easily tell the difference between both of them is if they go
into the password mode so you can see how much bigger the keyboard is on the
right with the passcode. We'll try that again. There we go.
The passcode is definitely larger on the series seven.
It gives you an idea of overall size with the display. Now,
other than the display,
there's not a whole lot new that with this other than a larger display,
45 millimeters from 44 or again from the smaller sizes as well.
But you also do get a couple extra things within watchOS eight.
So one of the things is obviously the larger buttons and that's all throughout
the OS. So if we go into something like calculator,
the buttons should be much larger. It's taking a moment to load there.
And so you can see the buttons here. They're larger. Again,
let me bring in the other to compare. And so again,
here's the displays compared,
and you'll see the buttons are definitely larger on the right.
So you have a little bit more space there.
You also have a full-size keyboard on the series seven.
So if maybe we go to, uh, let's go to a message here.
We'll go into messages. And if we want to type a message, we can now say, hi,
how are you? And it actually got pretty close,
but I'll probably just use Siri to do the same thing.
So you can use sort of quick path or swiping on the keyboard and it
seems to work. So you do have this full-sized key, full-size keyboard now,
which does seem to work pretty well.
And we'll just do the word today and it picked that up.
So it's actually pretty accurate despite me having huge hands and this tiny
little keyboard. So it does seem to work as far as that goes now,
charging your watch this year should be up to 33% faster, according to apple.
So that's something that's a little bit new. The battery is no different.
You're not going to get any additional battery life according to apple at this
point. And you do not have a different processor inside.
So we're using the same CPU or system on a chip that we have in the series six.
You do get an increased IP rating though IP six X,
which makes it more dust resistant as well.
So really there's a few different things here.
The differences is the larger display,
brighter display when in ambient mode or always on display with
smaller borders. And then also you have that keyboard.
Everything else is basically the same between the series six and series seven.
Now I wanted to try this solo loop just to see what it looks like as well.
So we'll open it up here
and these are very comfortable if you've ever used one of these.
So the solo loop is about $50 by itself.
And inside you do need to pick the size that works for you.
So if you don't pick the correct size, it won't fit.
So you'll need to measure your risk to make sure these fit properly.
It's basically stretchy sort of silicone rubber sort of feeling.
So let's go ahead and take the other watch band off for now.
So we'll put the solo loop on. This is a size 10 for me,
and let's see what we've got here. So this just fits on your wrist like that.
Let's unlock it. And so you can see it matches the solo loop.
And that's what it looks like. Now, these don't really give,
so you want to make sure you get the right size and it also is good to hold it
tight to your wrist for the sensors to work. So you don't want it too tight,
but you also want it to be comfortable as well. So size 10 or 11 might,
11 might be a little bit better for me,
but this gives you an idea of what the solar loop is. Like.
I tend to like the braided loop.
So this is something that's a hundred dollars I've had for a while.
And I really like this. It's very comfortable breeds very well,
and I tend to use that or the titanium band.
So I'll link those in the description as well.
So I'll have to use this for a few days to know if it's something that I think
is worth keeping or not.
Of course I do like the look of it being a little bit different.
It's stainless steel and shiny,
and I think it does look pretty great with this black band.
I think it looks nice. It has a good contrast to it.
So I'll use it for a few days.
See what it's like and see if it's worth keeping over the series six.
I would say for most people, it's probably not.
If you have a series five or series six from a series five to a series seven,
you'll probably have some increased battery life. Of course,
that faster charging and larger display.
It definitely looks larger than I expected. And so I think I like this,
although I'll probably use my default watch face that I have on the other apple
watch as well. Now,
if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper I have in this video,
of course I'll link that in the description like I normally do.
And if you picked up an apple watch,
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Thanks for watching. This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.