yes we're finally getting more and more confirmation that this year's apple
watch series 8 will have a model with a flat sided design finally a redesign
after so many years having the same old curved design so what i'm going to do in
this video is go through all of the brand new leaks and rumors and go
through the story of how we thought there's going to be a flat apple watch
with the series 7 but it didn't happen but thankfully there are a lot of puzzle
pieces coming together right now that are showing that we are likely to get
the flat design this year so let's get right into it now first of all this new
leak that just came out this morning comes from shrimp apple pro he's
actually the one that showed off the new pill plus cutout design he was the first
one to talk about it way back in the summer of 2020 and before even the
iphone 13 came out and now everyone agrees with them including all the cats
now this morning he came out and said guess what is going flat this year at
john prosser now as soon as i saw this i knew exactly what he was talking about
almost a full year ago john prosser who owns front page tech came out with
exclusive renders with a new flat sided apple watch design that everybody
thought was coming for the series seven and the even crazier thing is that mark
german who's the most reliable apple analyst
actually came out with a report before we saw the new apple watch series 7
saying that this year's design is all about the new flatter display and edges
so yes mark german vouched for john prosser's leak not only that
ming shakuo also said the same thing
right before the apple event that showed off the new series 7 saying that apple
is repairing an iphone 12-esque look for the watch with flat sides and squared
off edges exactly what john prosser showed off in his renders but
unfortunately when the event finally came around this is what apple gave us
both the case and the display of series 7 have softer more rounded corners
softer more rounded corners yes he just said that nowhere near the new flat
design that we were expecting now initially i thought everything went
catastrophically wrong and apple had to switch up the design and come out with
that new series seven but i have changed my theory and i now believe that apple
planned the flat design for last year's series seven but they ended up holding
off for another year because in march of last year mark german said that apple
was planning to launch a new rugged apple watch model for extreme sports
however a little bit later he said that the explorer edition was delayed and it
could arrive next year so apple basically delayed their plans for the
explorer edition and i believe that's exactly what we are getting this year
especially after a couple months back john prosser was on a podcast with mac
rumors and he revealed some very very interesting information as you can see
right here john prosser was showing off this cad file that his source sent to
him and based on what he saw he assumed that the one on the left is actually the
same old series six and the one on the right was the flat sided series seven
but then he realized the entire time that the one on the left was actually
the new more rounded series seven but he didn't realize that until after the
event and the one on the right is most likely destined to be within the series
eight lineup and this is exactly what he admitted he expects this year's apple
watch to have a flat sided model but jumping back to shrimp apple pro's
tweets from this morning he retweeted his own tweet talking about what's going
flat this year and he did confirm with this source that there is gonna be a
flat front glass display for the apple watch and he says there's a high chance
that this is the front glass for the apple watch series eight now he didn't
mention anything about the redesign with the flat sides or anything but this does
confirm that the display this time is going to
be flat which is a complete change from the displays that we've always had on
the apple watch and i think this means that we're likely to get that flat
design and he also added some more information saying that it's getting
ready for mass production relatively soon probably the same time as the front
glass of the iphone 14 lineup now this is a huge deal for me because for the
last few months i've been just going hard on this theory that there is going
to be a new flat sided apple watch series 8 and i think that it's going to
be called the pro model because apple is going to show it off as an even better
more expensive edition special edition with flat sides and a flat display
because it is going to be more rugged it's going to be harder to break the
glass because it's going to be receded under the metal rim so it's basically
going to be more rugged and to show you guys the proof for my theory on why
there could be the extra more expensive pro model we actually have a really
awesome leak from ross young who says that the series 8 lineup will be coming
in three different sizes which is crazy back in october he tweeted this don't be
surprised if there are three sizes next year in terms of the apple watch and he
even said would you like to see a bigger display on series 8 on the apple watch
in 2022 now this basically confirms that
there is going to be an even larger display than the one that we just got
with the series 7 which is 41 millimeters and 45 millimeters and to
make everything even better in december mark german came out and confirmed that
there are now going to be three different apple watch models selling
this year he said there's going to be a new apple watch sc a rugged model for
sports and a regular series 8 apple watch so that's three different apple
watches in the lineup and then a couple days after that minchi quo who was also
a famous and reliable apple analyst said the same thing three new apple watch
models coming in 2022 and in my opinion this basically
confirms that apple is now getting rid of the old series 3 apple watch with the
old square display design so now they're going to have three different display
sizes and as you can see right here apple's clear made a render of the three
designs that we should be expecting he shows off the series 4 display design
which was released in 2018 and that's the same for the series 5 the series 6
and the apple watch se and then of course we have the new series 7 with the
larger display size and then the series 8 with an even larger display size
however he does not show off the flat sided design at all which i think it is
going to be getting and i think it's going to be exclusive for the new rugged
or pro model while the regular series 8 will have the same display specs as the
series 7. and now on top of that shrimp apple pro actually replied to a tweet
asking if the bezels are getting way slimmer he says that the bezels are
staying the same size despite having a flat display which i think is going to
be larger and now you might think that it makes total sense for the bezel size
to be reduced if you're increasing the display size but not always because when
the iphone 12 came out it had the same 6.1 inch display size
however it was actually smaller 15 smaller and that's because we went from
a rounded design to a flat sided design so when you're cutting off those edges
you're actually squeezing in the chassis around the same display size as you can
see right here check this out if we compare it to iphone 11 iphone 12 is 11
thinner 15 percent smaller in volume and 16 percent lighter and now if you're
wondering why i think the new larger display size leads to a more expensive
pro model well that's because when you're talking about apple whenever they
have a larger display on a product it's always more expensive than the smaller
display products so because of that back in december i tweeted out this 2022
apple watch lineup in my opinion we have the 40 to 44 millimeter apple watch se
with an unchanged display size and it's probably going to come with upgraded
internals and specs based on the series 6 instead of the series 5 which the
current se is based on and it's going to be between 250 to 280 dollars then we
have the 41 to 45 millimeter apple watch series 8 which is basically the same as
the series 7 display size for 400 and then finally we have the brand new
larger display 42 to 46 millimeter display size with the square edge design
and that's going to be the explorer edition or the pro model for between 400
and 450 but honestly at this point i think apple
can charge even more especially if they're gonna make it come standard with
titanium material instead of aluminum they could even price it at five six
seven hundred dollars and the reason i'm holding on to that pro title is because
apple once considered launching an apple watch pro yes there was a time in 2015
when they actually had this image apple watch pro they were gonna release it but
they decided to hold off and not release the pro model so in my opinion i think
the time is now for apple to be able to make extra revenue and raise the average
sales price for the apple watch lineup with the new pro model and that could
allow them to put the best features and newest features onto the pro model first
before bringing it down to the rest of the apple watch lineup now in terms of
what else we should expect with the new apple watch series 8 well according to
minchiko it could be getting a body temperature sensor that didn't make it
to the series 7. it could also be getting a new satellite connectivity
feature along with the new iphones as well and it could also be getting a new
crash detection feature where if you get into a car crash and you're unresponsive
it could automatically dial 911 for you which is awesome and of course there's
probably going to be a bunch of other specs upgrades and features as well but
i think the big deal is that there's more confirmation from shrimp apple pro
that we're getting a new flat redesign with a new flat display and that is
going to be a huge deal now if you totally disagree with my thoughts on
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