Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 8 last week. But before we start the review, let's recap the history of the Apple Watch a little to understand what we are looking at. The Apple Watch has been with us for seven years now. And for the past couple of years, it received only incremental updates. Last year's model brought...
Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 8 last week. But before we start the review, let's recap the history of the Apple Watch a little to understand what we are looking at.
The new Series 8, I'm afraid, isn't like Series 4. It's yet another Apple Watch that has received small updates. So what are they and is this watch any good?The big update this year is the inclusion of a temperature sensor. And like most things that Apple makes, it's a thoughtful piece of engineering. It uses not one, but two sensors.
This temperature sensor is used for advanced female health tracking features with the highlight being retrospective ovulation estimates. According to Apple, an increase in temperature could be the result of ovulation and the Apple Watch Series 8 can tell you when you might have ovulated. I'm afraid I can't test the other new headline feature either because it's Crash Detection. Safety has always been a tenet of Apple Watches and having had fall detection for a while now, Apple is improving its safety feature set with the ability to detect severe car crashes.
And although Series 8 features the new S8 SiP, the actual processor is actually the same - so Series 8 isn't any faster than previous Apple Watches. The S8 SiP simply incorporates the new sensors required for telling your body temperature and Crash Detection. Judged solely by the improvements over last year's model, then yes, this year's Series 8 is disappointing. But nobody can argue that the new features - advanced female health tracking and Crash Detection - aren't nice to have, even if not everyone would find them useful. And in the case of Crash Detection, I hope it's something you'd never have to use.
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