Revisiting the Apple Watch SE in 2025 left me with a long list of update requests

Dear apples

As you know, Apple Watch SE is not new. The second generation was released in September 2022 alongside the 8 series and the first repetition of Ultra. I have been given iPhone, all iPad, AirPods, MacBooks and all of the leading and distinguished smart watch updates since then – but not a smart budget watch. Last month, my editors asked me to see how the SE watch accumulates in 2025 and I was happy with obligatory. I love getting my hand on new technology, analysis, evaluation, and trying it (then I return it when I finished so that I do not have to collect more things). But this review left me cold. Apple Watch SE Pland feels less in 2025.

It is a fairly safe bet, we’ll see a new SE soon. There, of course, rumors. In addition, the launch of the iPhone 16e indicates that you are still interested in running more versions at reasonable prices from your devices. There are about $ 150 of the difference between SE and Base Apple Watch Series 10. The latter goes for $ 399 at a full price and reached $ 329 for sale. The SE cost is $ 249 and went for up to $ 149. Although I do not expect you to have an hour in the budget everything that the pioneer does, there are some features that you feel not negotiable in 2025 in addition to some reasonable concessions that are likely to be mostly budget buyers ready to accept them. As wearers of daily smart watches and consumer tools, I am completely free to have my free advice about what I would like to see on the next Apple Watch SE.

Give us a larger (not better)

I usually wear the Apple Watch Series 9 series, but before that, I wore the Apple Watch series that was ridiculed with a scattered screen. Regardless of the screen, the screen on the Apple Watch SE 40 mm that you review appears to be identical to those on those that can be worn from 2018. In fact, both have the same volume areas, which receive a narrow size and compared to direct comparison more than 40 mm from 10 mm, which increases the Apple room. Edge. Looking at the amount of the increasing information that our watches deal with, I would like to show a larger plate on it.

The comprehensive brightness and clarity of the SE’s OLED retina display is completely sufficient. There is no need for the fine LTPO 3 technology that has the latest hours. SE’s 1000 brightness is too much. Even in bright sunlight, the screen is read. It is true that it cannot reach a group of brightness like the latest watches that can, and while distracting in a dark room, using bedtime concentration leads to the shot of the screen completely.

When I upgrade to Series 9, the feature that I was looking for more than others was always the show (AOD). This is because my series 4 requires me to lift my wrists again and again before lighting. It was annoying to check the time simply. But when I reviewed the Galaxy Watch 7, AOD was closed in most tests and did not miss it a little. It turns out, if the watch is reliably settling and soon her attention when we are alone, AOD is not important. So if the loss of this feature can maintain the cost, this will be an acceptable comparison. Currently, checking time on SE is a little bit, but not much better than my experience with my old watch. Which can be solved by a more advanced processor.

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Let’s have a faster chip (not the fastest)

I realize when I say that the treatment force of Apple Watch SE feels slow, and I rid my 14 -year -old, which the tube dream had CASIO Calculator. But still, compared to my experience with current models, is backward SE. Opening applications, controlling music, starting exercises and speaking with Siri is too slow. The budget watch does not need to fill the Zenith of Apple’s System-in-Package (SIP), but it reaches the S9 SIM for 2023 that will make the watch feel satisfied.

The Double Tap can also enable the Double TAP, which first appeared with series 9. But this is not very important – I can take the feature of controlling or leaving gestures. Do not feel accurate or integrated with the operating system, for example, the Samsung version on Galaxy Watch. Although I must admit, through my series 9, it feels a little magic when I can double the picker to start a proposed walking exercise – especially when I wrestle with a crazy puppy.

The Chip S9 also allows Siri requests on board, which means that those who do not have to borrow the Internet for the connected phone. If you are on a bike trip and want to register it this way, I can just ask Siri, even if you leave my phone at home. (True, the cellular SE can complete these requests without a phone, but price fees and monthly service fees for this configuration begin to put the idea of ​​the budget watch. When I want to put Siri a two -time timing of green tea that has been broadcast quickly, the process with SE takes a long time.

For a house, make it faster fees

My father’s name is a house. And if he has Apple Watch SE (instead of his 7 series), I know he wants to recharge in a reasonable period of time. In general, the battery performance on the SE is amazingly well. I can get a full day that includes running, fitness exercise+, setting time settings, checking the weather in an obsession, recording medicines and taking two walking – all with enough juice to track Numi. By the time I wake up, it is usually time to stick to the charger on the charger. This is a similar experience for my Apple Watch 9 series. But instead of re -filling the battery while bathing and preparing for this day, SE takes more than two hours to move from about 10 percent to a hundred. This is very long to wait.

Preserving titanium and sapphire crystal

Budget models are always delivered by the lower -cost materials and this is good. The aluminum alloy that Apple uses in its unprecedented hours is a good balance between durability and lightness. The ion-X glass on the front is not as strong as sapphire glass, but it is less expensive. I am not trying to talk about all the conscious people of the budget, but I and every person I know I tend to evaluate all expensive technology in the screen protectors and cases and all other preventive measures at the moment when the box leaves. So, if the materials are a little less powerful, dollars can fly from the demand price, by all means, Apple, do it.

We have seen rumors that your next SE might be in a plastic box in brighter colors on the watch teams, and perhaps try to attract children. I need to know the type of plastic you feel is strong enough to stand in the face of the chaos of children, but if it can last a few years without failing while maintaining the price as well, I am open to the idea.

It’s okay if the doctor’s office is not my watch

Fitness follow up in a list of non -negotiable features. The accuracy of this requires a group of sensors – gyroscope, acceleration scale, GPS, height scale and visual heart sensor, gyroscope, GPS scale and height scale. SE contains all these data and data collected from the exercises that were tracked and operated on an equal footing with what you will meet the latest Sa’adi.

SE lacks an electrocardiogram sensor, so it cannot take ECG. There is also a temperature sensor, which is used by Series 10 to help predict ovulation and menstruation cycles. So when your company works on the patent dispute over the oxygen sensor, I imagine that the new Apple Watch SE will not get this possibility either.

This is good. I used the ECG reading exactly once – to test it for comparison to a review of another smart watch. I was obsessed with my seven -year -old ovulation, about eight years before my seven -year -old child was born. Although it is great for our hours to collect a lot of data, I think it is important to cover the basics: tell me when I am really on its way, and when the heart rate reaches 170 on HIit exercise. We can get these healthy assessments more specialized and rarely used elsewhere.

SE does not have a depth scale or water temperature sensor as well. This is also good. I don’t think anyone on the market to get a budget can be worn terribly that he is not designed to go diving with them.

The most recent pioneering Apple watches contain a very wide range (UWB) inside to help find more accurate than the iPhone in its place and supports additional reactions with the near HomePod. I use my watch to find my phone up to three times a day. UWB provides a more accurate way to locate the devices, and this interface appears on my series 9 every time I develop my phone, as it offers a nice, nice game of hot and cold, indicating an arrow in the direction of the missing phone. But I often ignore the guidelines and only listen to Da-Ta-Da-TA-DING-DA-Ding from the phone. This means, I did not miss at least the UWB at least on SE.

Emmy Skurheim for Engadget

conclusion

When Apple Watch SE came out in 2022, engadget’s Cherlynn Low described it as the best smart watch to buy $ 250. This was definitely the case at the time. But after two and a half years, it is reasonable to expect more budget watch. I remember the contract or so after the college when it represents $ 250 more than allocating the monthly food. For many, even buy Apple at reasonable prices “is still important.

For the same money, people can get a lot if they go out outside your alarmed ecosystem. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Fe is only $ 200. Not only has the same sensors that can be worn a leading company, but also can perform ECG. For $ 200, we can also get Fitbit Versa 4 instead. True, it does not package nearly many features such as Pixel Watch 3, but it covers the basics well, tracks activity, provides notifications and going for up to six days. It will be associated with iPhone. Then there is Garmin Byerunner 165. Now it is the favorite running watch for editors and can be $ 250. Make the smart watch worth $ 250 does not exceed the world of possibilities.

Apple, you can save your distinguished materials, very specialized sensors and nice additions such as UWB Etisalat for leading and distinctive models. In this way, people who want to pay more will feel that they get their money. You only need to focus on the features that make a difference for ordinary users, and forget these unanimous privileges. There is still room for you to clarify an hour at reasonable prices that you do not feel like a second -class supplement.

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2025-03-13 16:30:00