Review of Apple Watch Series 5 - wearable with unfading screen

Table of contents

• Equipment
• Appearance and ergonomics
• Display
• Control
• dials
• Protection
• autonomy
• functions
• Apple Watch Series 5 Unlike previous models
• Specifications
• results

Equipment

To our office came to Apple Watch in the color "gray space". In the box - watch case in a suede pouch, charging cable with magnetic "tablet", the adapter 5 V and 1 A and a standard set of papers.

In a single package - sport strap with additional shorter pieces. The watch color "gray space" is black.

Appearance and ergonomics

This year, Apple introduced the clock in aluminum, ceramic, steel and titanium case. In Russia, only aluminum version is available.

The housing has not changed since last year - we face the same Apple Watch Series 4, but with a renewed filling. Preserved and ergonomics. It is convenient and easy with the slim gadget, the existence of which on the hand quickly forget.

Apple Watch Series 5 can be in two sizes - 40 and 44 mm. The difference in price between the symbolic and the functions are identical.

Three color options: silver, gold, and "gray space". Modification equipped with straps in different colors.

Also sold model Apple Watch Nike + Series. This is the same watch, but with a firm strap from the sports brand.

The straps are removable. Prices are in the Apple store start at 3900 rubles. Fortunately, the new watch is compatible with straps and bracelets of old models and options can be found on AliExpress for 100-200 rubles.

Display

The clock mounted displays with a diagonal of 1.57 and 1.78 inches, depending on the size of the Apple Watch. Screen edges have rounded corners, useful information in them is not lost.

Thanks to OLED-technology, Apple has turned the framework do the crossing to the display visible.

The brightness remains the same - 1000 nits. This is more than the iPhone display. Clock can be used in very sunny weather.

The main innovation of Apple Watch Series 5 - negasnuschy screen. To achieve this without compromising the autonomy was possible thanks LTPO OLED technology with dynamic frame rate. It can vary from 1 to 60 Hz, depending on conditions. This means that an inactive screen is updated with a frequency of one frame per second. Therefore, when you turn your wrist away from you on the dial disappears gradually moving second hand, and during the training do not show a split second.

The emergence of the regime Always On Display significantly affects the experience of using hours. Find out the time can now be a little faster, and look at the data workout swim in the pool easier.

When you rotate your wrist away from you screen does not return to a specific dial. If you watched the notification of the Telegram, they will remain on the inactive screen, but the image will become blurry. So no one reads your messages, you can quickly return to your application. Perhaps negasnuschy screen - the only noticeable change, which you can find in the part of the script.

Control

Managed by Apple Watch with a digital bits (wheel), the main buttons on the side and a touch screen with a 3D Touch. Despite the dozens of features and supported applications, to understand all possible 1-2 days of active use hours.

It looks like the screen with all available applications. Zoom is controlled via wheel.

The dials are switched side swipe.

According to swipe from the bottom opens the control point. As it turns on a flashlight, silent or airplane.

Pressing the side button opens a list of active applications. Scroll the list using the scroll wheel and select the desired program - tapom on the screen. Double-clicking on the side button includes Apple Pay.

To pay off the clock screen, you need to turn away from himself wrist or slap his palm on the screen.

What can be done on the clock itself, it is possible to Watch application on the iPhone. Here, the user selects the dials and the applications that appear on the Apple Watch screen, update software, change the appearance of text on the display of hours and manages other gadget settings. Apple Watch also use the application "Activity", which are indicators of training and time in motion.

dials

The choice available dozens of dials. Most of them are set widgets: time in another time zone, the battery level, reminders, activity rates, weather and much more. Also on the dial, you can make the application icon to jump to it.

A record number of widgets remains introduced last year, the dial "Infograf" nine add-ons in a single screen.

It can compete with the "Meridian" with four widgets, which is available on the Apple Watch Series 5. This is enough to add to the screen the most necessary. The dial is designed to show the beauty of Always On Display Mode: When activated it changes color on Inverse.

In addition, you can add other dials: a conventional and huge numbers, photos on the splash screen, rings the activity animations to fill the screen with fire or Mickey Mouse. Typically, users have enough options 2-3 are used simultaneously.

Protection

Watches allow immersion to a depth of 50 meters. This means that the swim and take a shower with the Apple Watch can, without fear for their safety.

for navigation mode is activated in the control room. When you activate the screen stops responding to touch. To return the watch to normal, you need to rotate the digital crown. The screen is unlocked, and the built-in speakers vyduyut moisture.

Protected from intruders clock PIN code which must be entered every Equip hours.

autonomy

Specifications say 18 hours of use in mixed mode on a single charge. Judging by the experience and similar data in the previous model, to charge the Apple Watch Series 5 have every night with the active use once a day and a half with moderate.

If you need a "long-running" clock that survive a few weeks without a socket and follow the activity during sleep, Apple Watch will not fit.

functions

Tracker activity and training

Apple Watch Series 5 Always monitor three key parameters: calories burned, training time and the number of hours "with a warm-up." Sports load gadget considers any active movement, and it is not necessarily jogging or training in the gym. The data can be displayed on a special dial with three rings.

Clock support dozens of training and can read and display relevant information for different types of exercise on the screen.

All data is integrated into the application "Activity" and "Health".

Music player

Apple Watch Series 5 got 32 GB of memory. They can be used for music. Hours are able to work with AirPods or other Bluetooth-headset, which means that you can go for a jog with your favorite playlist and without a smartphone.

Compass

The clock magnetic compass installed. Its application shows not only the direction of the compass, but the climb, the position and angle. In addition, Compass data may pick up other applications, such as Night Sky with a map of the starry sky.

Purse

The Apple Watch is installed NFC-chip. This means that you do not need to take your smartphone, if you go to the store. Just paying their cards, bound to Wallet analog hours.

voice assistant

The Apple Watch has of Siri, you can ask about the weather on the street or on what track is currently playing. The need to get iPhone in a number of lost scripts.

The determinant of the volume

Microphone hours will notify you if you are in a noisy environment and can damage your hearing. With the risk of the body vibrates. Also you can see the noise level in the corresponding application "rumor."

Monitoring the menstrual cycle

Special software appeared in watchOS 6. In it, you can mark the days when times monthly, and be notified of the favorable period for conception.

Calculator and voice recorder

In watchOS 6 have full calculator and voice recorder app on your watch. In addition, the new operating system had its own App Store for the Apple Watch, which means that you do not need to store duplicates in the iPhone application.

Clock

Apple Watch shows time. Roman and Arabic numerals of all sizes and at various dials.

Differences Apple Watch Series 5 from previous models

Almost all the functions of Apple Watch Series 5, which we discussed earlier, there is a previous model, and many innovations have not come with the new hours and new watchOS. That's the fifth generation hours difference from the fourth:

• Always On Display function. Prevents screen go blank when you turn away your wrist or deactivate the display with his hand.
• Magnetic compass. At Apple Watch Series 4, it is not. It may be useful to travelers. Also, it has the potential for interaction with other applications, but the benefits of this a little bit, at least for now.
• Built-in memory. Doubled - up to 32 GB.

But from the third series of watches novelty gone far. Changed design and dimensions, the increased ratio of screen area to the area of ​​the front panel. Dials "Infograf" and "Meridian" on the Apple Watch Series 3 are not available. Increased productivity: Apple Watch Series 5 work a little quicker and smarter. Built-in memory in the third version is less than four times - a total of 8 GB.

At the same time Apple Watch Series 3 - excellent watch that more relevant and even sold in the official Apple store. They are protected from the water, they are able to measure the pulse and keep tracking of training, held up to 18 hours without recharging, and support the same straps.

But a comparison of the prices of actual models of Apple Watch:

• Apple Watch Series 3 (38 mm) - 15 990 rubles.
• Apple Watch Series 3 (42 mm) - 17 990 rubles.
• Apple Watch Series 4 (40 mm) - 26 490 rubles (about the price).
• Apple Watch Series 4 (44 mm) - 29 150 rubles (approximate value).
• Apple Watch Series 5 (40 mm) - 32 990 rubles.
• Apple Watch Series 5 (44 mm) -34990 rubles.

Specifications

• Colors: "Gray space", silver, gold.
• Dimensions: 40 and 44 mm.
• Display: 40-millimeter version - 1.57 inch, 394 × 324 pixels, LTPO OLED; 44-millimeter version - 1.78 inch, 448 × 368 pixels, LTPO OLED.
• Operating system: watchOS 6.0.
• CPU: Apple S5.
• Built-in memory: 32 GB.
• Wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC.
• sensors: an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an optical pulse sensor (second generation), cardiac electrical activity sensor, a compass, a microphone.
• autonomy: to 18 hours in a mixed mode.
• Charging: Wireless adapter included.
• Compatibility: iPhone 6s or newer with iOS 13 or later.
• Protection: permit immersion to a depth of 50 m.
• Dimensions: 40-millimeter version - 40 × 34 × 10.7 mm; 44-millimeter version - 44 × 38 × 10.7 mm.
• Weight: 40-millimeter version - 39.8 g; 44-mm version - 47.8 g

results

Before us is the same Apple Watch Series 4, just with unfading screen. Updated from last year's version does not make sense.

Apple Watch Series 3 are not so expensive, perform approximately the same function as the new clock support watchOS 6 with all the new chips and eventually become obsolete only when Apple will reveal something really new.

Apple Watch Series 5 - a good purchase if you have an iPhone and you choose its first smartwatch, which will be relevant for a few more years. This is the best wrist gadget Apple, just not much better than the previous.

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The author expresses his gratitude to the company Apple for providing the test device.