Apple has held its pre-recorded “Wonderlust” event, and one of the announcements was the new Apple Watch Series 9 with some interesting new features.
The wearable device offers the following features:
- A new wrist gesture lets you double-tap by tapping your index finger and your thumb twice. you can use it to stop a timer, answer the call, scroll through widgets and more.
- This works by combining inputs from the accelerometer, gyroscope and optical heart rate sensors, with a little help from machine learning.
- Apple’s S9 chip gives the Apple Watch Series 9 a big boost in terms of performance. Apple says the chip has 5.6 billion transistor and includes a 30 faster GPU and a new flour-core Neural Engine for faster machine learning tasks
- Apple mentioned the same “all-day battery life” as before.
- Siri can now work offline on the Apple Watch, allowing it to respond much faster to queries than before
- Dictation on the new watch is 20 percent faster, too
- You can now access your Health data with Siri
- The new second-generation ultra wide band U2 chip powers faster, more reliable device tracking in the Find My app
- Media suggestions when close to the HomePod automatically appear on the Apple Watch
- The Retina display now goes up to 2000 nits, double the brightness of Series 8
- Available in starlight, silver, midnight, PRODUCT(RED) and a new pink color option
- Starts at $499
More to follow later…