hey what's up it's Jerad with State of tech so the other day Apple released their
new Apple watch series 5 and that left a lot of us who may have Apple watch
version fours scratching our heads because there really wasn't a whole lot
that was announced in this new version and a lot of people actually thought
that maybe there wouldn't be a new version which is silly because there's
new versions every year but Apple did announce their Apple watch 5 and they
took the Apple watch for off the menu but they left the Apple watch 3 now the
reason that I'm doing this comparison video is because there's still a lot of
places that sell Apple watch 4s you can get the Apple watch for at best buy on
Amazon in all sorts of places and I guarantee for at least a while there's
gonna be a lot of Apple watch version 4 is available and just because they
aren't selling it directly from Apple anymore doesn't mean that they're not
going to support it the Apple watch 4 will be supported far
into the future just like the Apple watch 3 will and I'll do a video if you
are interested on comparing the Apple watch 3 to the Apple watch 5 because
those are the two devices that will be going forward available only from Apple
now but for those of us that have an Apple watch for and are considering is
it worth upgrading to the Apple watch 5 or maybe for those of you that have an
older version of an Apple watch and you want a newer version of the Apple watch
but aren't sure if you want to fork out the money for an Apple watch 5 this is
the video for you so we're going to talk about the differences between the do two
devices and you're going to learn that there really aren't a whole lot of
differences that matter for most people so let's jump into those things right
now
all right so both watches are gonna be the same exact size we've got the 40
millimeter and the 44 millimeter watches and the size really hasn't changed
between the Apple watch version 4 and version 5 now not much has changed with
the screen either it has the same screen size the same OLED the same 1000 nits
for the brightness so the display hasn't really changed either there is one thing
about the display that's changed a little bit and we'll talk about that and
the next thing here but as far as the experience that you're gonna get from
the quality of the display it's gonna be pretty much exactly the same because
that has not changed so there's no differences there so far of course the
Apple watch version 5 has the always-on display and the way that they're able to
achieve having a display that's always on is that they've made the display and
the 5 operate between 60 and even as low as one Hertz which essentially means the
amount of refresh that's happening on that display can vary depending on what
you're doing so if you're in an app that maybe has
things moving and changing and you're looking at the watch itself you're gonna
get that higher 60 Hertz refresh rate if you're looking at a watch face just
trying to read the time you don't even need it to really refresh at all you
just need it to refresh once to show you what the current time is even if you
have a watch face that has more of the traditional style watch that has a
second hand that is moving that still only really needs to refresh once every
second when that hand moves and so that's that's a savings right there in
battery life that they're able to achieve and so the always-on display
means that your information is always there and available to you without
having to kick your wrist up so that the watch knows that you were positioning in
it so you can see what's going on I know definitely there have been many times
that I have tilted my wrist I've got no response and so three or
four times I've tilted my wrist in order to see what's on my watch and it's just
been kind of awkward and annoying so the always-on display is going to be really
nice of course it's means that our Apple
watch 5 is only going to get the same battery life that we would get
out of our Apple watch for but that's that's fine I mean that's the difference
there so if you don't really care about having that always-on display maybe you
like having this display blacked out from time to time for privacy purposes
or whatnot you just you don't need the display to be on all the time I'm sure
that's something that you're gonna be able to turn off and the Apple watch
version 5 but in the Apple watch version 4 it's just that way by default and so
you might consider an Apple watch version 4 because the always-on display
is really one of the only big things that's different between the devices but
let's keep going now the performance of both of these devices are gonna be a
little different of course they're saying the same thing about the watch 5
as they did the watch 4 and that it's 2 times faster than the watch 3 and Apple
doesn't talk so much about their chipset that is in these watches like they do
the chipset that's in their iPhones and iPads they talk a lot about the a12 a13
Bionic chip that they put in their phones they don't talk so much about the
s4 or the s5 chip that they put in these watches so the watch version 4 has an s4
and the watch 5 has an s5 chip of course they're both 64-bit architecture and
they're both supposed to be 2 times faster than than what was that came
before them so with that said we don't really know too much about the
performance I've never felt that my Apple watch for was very laggy my Apple
watch too when I had that version that was laggy I felt that that was
underpowered that that device didn't really have the performance that it
needed but once they kind of jumped to the Apple watch version 3 it seemed like
things were much faster and then of course with the version 4 things have
felt faster than the version 3 but that really could be just the amount of time
it takes for an app to load or an animation or something like that so if
you're not a heavy app user on your watch you're probably not really going
to notice too much of a difference at all between the Apple watch for in the
Apple watch 5 storage is another thing that changed of course on the Apple
watch for it gets 16 gigs and on the Apple watch 5 you get 32 gigabytes of
storage this is really only going to matter for those of you that are
interested in storing a ton of or music on your watch for those of us
that do most of our music over streaming it really doesn't matter I have this
Apple watch for LTE model and I stream most of my audio using either Apple
music or Spotify even stream podcasts through the through the watch as well
I don't store too much on the watch and in my use case 16 gigabytes is more than
enough even for the few things that I would store on the device however if you
are going with a option that is not or thinking about going with an option that
is not LTE because you don't stream and you're gonna be somewhere where there
isn't really any Wi-Fi then you might want to go with the Apple watch 5 to get
that more storage so you can store more music and stuff like that 32 gigs by
today's standards is still a relatively small amount of storage compared to what
you get on phones but it's more than enough to have apps and a bunch of music
on your watch ready to go at any time so if you want to be more kind of off the
grid with your Apple watch you probably want to go with the higher storage
option but keep in mind 16 gigabytes is still quite a bit of storage if all you
want to do is sync over some photos and enough music to get you through your
workout I touched on battery life a little bit before saying that they're
both pretty much the same you get that all-day battery life around 18 hours of
battery life for basic usage which I can attest to I get up about 4 a.m. in the
morning and I wear my watch all night so I charge my watch before bed so that
it's at a hundred percent when I go to bed at around 9 or 10 p.m. I then wear
it all night and then wear it to the gym for two hours in which it's doing its
tracking workouts and stuff like that and when I come home I usually have
about 75 to 80% battery life left on the watch which can carry me through the
rest of the day until the evening when I then put it back on the charger
unfortunately something that we have to do just about every day with our Apple
watches is charge them and for those of you that are leading as much of an
active life and don't necessarily need to use workouts and stuff like that
you're gonna get even better battery life out of your watch then then I will
of course I am up for a lot of hours throughout the day and I'm utilizing my
device quite off so that often results in a decrease in
battery life for me some days I have had the battery run out before I'm ready to
put it on the charger before bed but other times I've had it last well into
the next day as well now the Apple watch 5 is going to come with a compass that
the 4 does not have in previous models don't have of course previous models
have GPS as well and so the 4 has GPS and you can use the GPS to track
coordinates and stuff like that the GPS has worked relatively well for
me when it comes to using navigation if I go on a hike and I use a hiking app it
does an okay job at maintaining where I'm at and I can go back and see you
know the path that I took but the compass that's coming on the
version 5 is gonna take that a whole different level not only are you gonna
get that ability to track where you are and get decent navigation it's gonna be
better because the compass is gonna help you orient yourself better and make sure
that when you're wanting to go north that you're going north and not maybe
Northwest or something like that so the compass is definitely gonna help in a
couple of different aspects I haven't really relied on the compass on my phone
too much I the app has been on my iPhone for quite a while and I really never use
it unless I just feel interested in understanding whether something is north
or not and so I think that it's one of those features that not many of us are
gonna use and so you really have to look at your use case and how you're gonna
use your watch if you don't use your watch standalone for navigation I mean
stand alone buy it not being connected to your phone because it's gonna pull
navigational data and information from your phone if you're using the Wi-Fi
version the Bluetooth Wi-Fi version of the watch it's gonna pull information
from your phone if you're using your watch standalone and you want all of
that capability I might consider the Apple watch 5 even with the LTE because
you get the compass you get the GPS you get the LTE connecting to the cell
towers and all of that is going to provide a very very exact location which
is going to be good for those apps that you use to track your runs you track
your bike rides your hikes and all that stuff of course the Apple watch for does
a great job at this as well much better than a lot of other
watches that are out there but the compass is gonna make it just that much
better so there's also an interesting emergency call feature that is coming to
the LTE version of the Apple watch 5 and that is the ability to reach emergency
services pretty much regardless of where you're out I think they set a hundred
and fifty countries that's launching with that your watch will be able to
reach an emergency service this is something that your phone can do but now
it'll be available on the LTE version of the watch and previous versions of the
watches don't have that of course if you have an LTE version of a previous watch
you can maybe figure that out if you know how to dial in and you have the
appropriate services that are available but the LTE version of the Apple watch 5
is going to be able to do that out of the box once you connect it to service
which i think is pretty neat now if that doesn't matter to you that's a feature
that is useless if you don't travel abroad much isn't really gonna matter
because wherever you have service you're gonna be able to SOS call regardless so
if you're here in the US your Apple watch for can SOS call already your
Apple watch for in Canada or whatever other country you have it connected to
and is gonna be able to SOS this is mainly a feature for those who do travel
and want that SOS functionality on their watch so lastly we're gonna talk about
price right now at the time of me recording this the prices haven't
changed on the Apple watch for yet I was looking this morning at Best Buy and
Amazon and B&H Photo Video who all have the Apple watch for in stock the price
is definitely going to drop a little bit on that as I've already started to see
with a couple of the variations on Amazon and the price has always been a
little bit better when you buy an Apple watch through like B&H photo I'll make
sure to link to all these below Amazon is definitely a good option there
because you get their great return policy you can get it shipped to you
pretty quickly easily and the Apple watch 4 will probably be available for
quite a while at least until they run out of stock so you can look at that as
an option as well if you're not looking to invest in the premium priced devices
that are the Apple watch 5 for this year you
definitely pick up an Apple watch for for a little bit cheaper and we'll see
where the prices go if you're interested I'll definitely try and update that in
the comment section below as I see some price drops happen or if you happen to
see a price drop somewhere share it down in the comment section below as well
you're definitely going to be able to save a little bit of money going with a
for over a five even though the four isn't being offered from Apple anymore
but if you're interested in a comparison between the three and the five I have my
five on the way which of course I will be doing some testing and talking about
when I have some time to spend with it but if you want me to do a comparison
between the three and the five I can easily do that and I'd love to put a
video together for that so if you're interested let me know down in the
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thanks so much for checking out the video and hope to see you back in the
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