As expected, today Apple announced details about the next version of the Apple Watch. Dubbed the Apple Watch Series 7, it has a new retina display with 20% more screen area, brighter indoor performance, and smaller bezels that are 40% thinner.
Apple says the screen is the most durable “crack resistant” display on an Apple Watch thanks to “stronger geometry.” The Series 7 is also IPX6 dust resistant, a first for Apple Watches, in addition to being water-resistant up to 50 meters. Apple says the bigger display area facilitated the introduction of a full QWERTY keyboard that can be typed or swiped through to enter text. The larger screen also means slightly larger watch cases. Each grew one millimeter from 40 and 44 millimeters on the Series 6 to 41 and 45 millimeters on the Series 7.
During today’s Apple announcement event, there wasn’t much said regarding new internals. Apple didn’t mention a new chip or any other computing components for this upcoming watchOS 8 powered device. But there have finally been improvements to charging speeds. With the new USB-C Apple Watch charger, Apple says the Series 7 can charge from zero to 80 percent in 45 minutes and achieve eight hours of sleep tracking from just an eight-minute charge. Although Series 7’s battery charges 33 percent faster than its predecessor, it still has the same 18-hour battery life as the Series 6.
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