hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we've got a special review
for you we'll be reviewing the apple watch series 6 cellular and gps version so this
is a 44 millimeter aluminium version it's blue in color it looks great looks amazing actually
but today's review of the apple watch series 6 will be slightly different to what you've seen
earlier on other channels while having a look at the apple watch series 6 as just another
smartwatch but with the apple logo on it it makes you see things with a new perspective a more
fresh perspective anyway let's get into this initial impressions review of the apple watch
series 6 44 millimeters let's get into it if you are new to wes knows tech news and reviews we talk
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and finally so i went out and got myself the top spec apple watch series 6 and this is a 44
millimeter version so it's the larger one and of course it's cellular and gps as well now my
expectations were set high first of all because this thing cost me 520 pounds and that's around
700 that's a lot of dosh for a smart watch so my expectations were pretty high they were about that
high how much did i actually experience how much pleasure did i get out of using the smartwatch
well i'll tell you what it wasn't that high and again i know there'll be a lot of haters and
telling me in the comments below the video that i got it all wrong or i didn't get something but hey
i've been reviewing smart watches and gadgets for quite a while i know what to expect from
a smartwatch for 520 pounds and what i'm getting here i'm getting a lot of reputation i'm getting
a lot of the credibility of a big brand but there are a lot of great things about this smartwatch
but also there are quite a few drawbacks and we'll be discussing all the advantages and all
the drawbacks in this particular video so without further ado let's get into the detail as with all
the reviews on the wes knows tech news and reviews channel first we'll get into the design then we'll
talk about the display and then we'll get into the features and functions but because this is
a different kind of review because we want to look at the drawbacks as well as the advantages
we'll mix them in as we go through the video let's kick off with the design so it's a standard
apple watch we all know about it this thing came out five years ago the first time ever
and wow it basically blew the smartwatch market up it was the first smartwatch that actually fit in
perfectly with the apple echo system and yes you can download apps and it's a perfect connection
with your iphone but just your iphone if you've got a samsung or any other android device
you would not be able to pair it up to your apple watch anyways so the design is very much
recognizable it's got this great rectangular shape it does look good and anybody can see that it's an
apple watch it's got this great strap which has a tucking design anyway so the design is there what
about the weight the weight is not bad it's just under 40 grams because this is the bigger version
this is the 44 millimeters and it's aluminium so it's only 36 grams if you did go for the steel
version that would be around 40 grams and if you go for the smaller size which is 40 millimeters
and aluminium that will be just over 30 grams if we look at the actual case so it is aluminium and
we've got it in blue you will notice that on the left you've got two speakers on the right
you've got a microphone slot and of course you've got the famous round button so you can press that
and you can swivel it up and down also there is this invisible button on the bottom right of
the bezel on the bottom right of the watch case so this usually just returns you to the previous menu
and that's it that's the design of the apple watch it is distinct
and people are used to it even though it's not the pretty round or it's not just perfectly square
it's the apple design and now let's talk about the screen because the screen is special you just want
to keep on touching this screen it is so nice the curved screen i can't say that the bezels are all
that thin because they're not right they're not the thinnest bezels that i've seen but they still
look very sharp and if we talk about brightness when this screen is actually brightening up it
goes from 200 to 600 nits and 600 nits that's very bright you also get the always on display
with this watch in fact that is one of the main reasons why people get this but i'm just not sure
do they know that practically any other smartwatch also has always on display i'm just not sure why
other brands don't actually advertise it but apple does if you love your faces the faces on
your watch you will love the apple designs they're highly customizable i've actually brought in my
gallery of seven photos of car photos i love cars just looking at them and i've brought them in to
give me a dynamic sort of screen saver on my watch face so the cars actually switch around
you can actually set a hundred photos which you can actually look through or upload to your
watch face from your smartphone so faces that's great but again any other manufacturer does that
some better some worse but in general you can get as many faces as you like and also
customizable faces you can also bring in uh your custom faces such as from your gallery
of your smartphone onto your watch although i do have to mention that i haven't seen a watch
which does the dynamic changing of the photos like the apple watch so that is definitely a plus
now another great feature is the passcode so you will see that now if i want to unlock the watch
i will have to enter in my four digit passcode that is pretty cool because on other watches
there's also the passcode option such as on your garments or on your xiaomi or in your mass fit
watches but there basically as soon as the screen locks you put in your password or just before you
actually do a pay function so on your garments for example i've got the garmin venue here
just before you make a payment with garmin pay you would have to enter in your password that's great
but with the apple watch it just works slightly differently as soon as you take the watch off your
wrist it basically puts in a passcode and you can't get into the watch unless you enter the
passcode and that is quite safe and that is very intelligent so i do like that but again a passcode
nothing new it's just the way it's been thought through it's just the mechanics of this passcode
and it's quite premium just before we get into the features and functions of the smartwatch
let's talk about the actual system what does it have so it's got one gig of ram now that's nothing
to write home about but we know that with apple products one gig of ram can go a long way in fact
it goes quite a very far away with this watch because everything is so smooth but after all
why do we get a smart watch is it for tracking your exercises for your activities is it for
tracking your heart rate your spo2 or your blood oxygen saturation what about tracking your sleep
why else do we want a smart watch well we wanted to calculate the steps taken so to measure and to
track our steps we wanted to be able to calculate the calories burned during an exercise or just
by living our day-to-day lives we want a smart watch or a fitness tracker to actually track our
fitness levels to make sure that we sustain them maintain them or improve on them and of course
apple is advertising the apple smartwatch as one of the healthiest smart watches in the world
now as i found out that this is the first apple watch so the six series which has sleep tracking
available and it's not the sleep tracking that we're used to on the huawei's on the honors on the
mass fits all the polars all the garments for that matter oh no this is very basic sleep tracking it
tells you when you went to sleep when you woke up and how much time you've actually slept what's the
point in that well of course there is some point but really that's not elaborate at all also you
do not get the chance to use smart alarms so the watch will not identify the most optimum sleep
face when to wake you up it just doesn't do it you don't get sleep stages so you can't tell when
you had your rem sleep your deep sleep or your light sleep it's just the total time slept now
that's very limited usability cases for that and again with something that i'm paying 520 pounds
i would think that my sleep is quite important for my health but anyway let's talk about heart
rate monitoring yep continuous right here sp02 yep finally in the six series you do get
your blood oxygen saturation being monitored that's great but then again almost every
other smartwatch does that already heart rate monitoring every other smartwatch does it as well
in regards to sport profiles well you've got plenty on the apple watch series six and all
of these sport profiles are actually gold based so if we look at swimming you can actually set
and adjust your pool length it will calculate the number of laps that you've swam you can also set
the distance that you want to swim the number of calories you want burnt or the duration of time
you want to do swimming so it does all this and that's great but i've seen so many smarter
functions such as those that will actually alert you if during an exercise you're out of your pace
or if your heart rate is above a certain range and we can see those alerts in the mass fit watches
which cost a fraction of the apple watch then of course if we look at the garments at the garment
venue as an example on there you can actually see gesture control of how you should perform
exercises you also get that on the huawei and the honor watches but the apple watch series 6 has an
echo system it's got the apple ecosystem you can go in you can download apps and there's 30 gigs of
space 32 gigabytes of space on the smartwatch and considering that yes this is actually a
cellular model so i can actually make phone calls right from my wrist i've got a speaker i've got a
microphone yep i can speak into it and i can hear people talking to me from the other side
right on the watch the number of apps you can get that is great it's spectacular it does make this
very interesting i love the fact that i can catch up on my news just off the watch face and again
that is great you just love the fact that this watch is a real continuation
of your smartphone of your apple smartphone there are plenty of useful apps such as your calculator
and because the screen is rather large you can actually put in values you can see what you're
going to come up with there's a great calendar app again as on many other smart watches but here it's
a bit more special because it's just so nice and so smooth there are a lot of other apps which are
quite useful the breathing app is absolutely beautiful you can do breathing exercises
to counter a panic attack or maybe just do some breathing exercises because good for your health
just if you want to relax everything that you do on the apple watch is nice it's very pretty it's
quite effective and again it's very smooth so you do get a lot of interactivity it looks absolutely
stunning but if we talk specifically about the features and functions and we forget about the
ecosystem we forget about reading the news off your watch because really how convenient is it to
read news of your watch not that you will still be pulling out your smartphone so i'm thinking
that a lot of these features are just well not exactly gimmicks because you can actually use them
but how much of these features will you actually be using such as downloading apps and reading news
or using your calculator on your watch really you can do it but will you be doing it how often will
you be making calls off your wrist everybody keeps on going how effective this battery is it can last
you 36 hours 36 hours really well of course you didn't get sleep tracking in the previous models
because the watch didn't even last a full day so you couldn't go to sleep and actually get sleep
tracking now well this watch can do it but really you go for an exercise and what five percent of
your battery goes dead overnight you lose 10 to 20 percent of your battery life that is really not
massive 36 hours is nothing take a garment 10 days of battery life taking a mass fit watch 30 days of
battery life and that's with your gps hours so if i'm going out hiking what am i going to do with
this watch if it loses power how is it going to help me so it does have an altimeter it's got a
gps it's great it's useful just like many of the other smart watches on the market it's just that
this one is much prettier to look at much nicer to feel but really with such a short battery life
that's a bit of an issue so i can see that there are huge advantages with the apple watch series
6. it's recognizable it's apple it fits the ecosystem it's got good functionality strong
fitness features but there are other trackers which offer more fitness features more health
features and watches that are compatible with other brands of smartphones so with the apple
watch you are restricted to just the apple iphone so that is my fresh look at the apple watch if you
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