Apple preps big update with next-gen Apple Watch
As the iPhone celebrated its 10th birthday in 2017, Apple released the iPhone X, a major upgrade with a new design featuring an edge-to-edge display and the removal of the antiquated Home button. Now, the 10th birthday of Apple Watch doth approach.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
Now the Apple Watch is nearing its 10th birthday, and the company has a chance to mark the occasion. This fall, Apple is planning some notable changes to its original smartwatch line — the “Series” models — including larger displays. The device also will be thinner, though the design itself is unlikely to look much different.
Both versions of the Series 10 — codenamed N217 and N218 — will get bigger screens.
It’s still not clear whether Apple will brand the upcoming watches as an anniversary model or wait until next year. Given that the Apple Watch was announced in 2014 but not released until 2015, the company could either tout the anniversary this year or have a splashier release in 2025.
Another question is when Apple will add long-anticipated health tools to its watches. The company has been developing technology to detect high blood pressure and sleep apnea that were slated for release this year. But the effort hasn’t gone smoothly. Since making headway on those features last year, Apple has run into some serious snags, I’m told.
A longer-term goal is to get glucose monitoring into the Apple Watch. Such a feature has been in development for about a decade, and the company hit major milestones in that work, I’ve reported.
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