Apple Watch Series 3 - One Year Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe've had the series three Apple watch strapped to our wrist every single day for almost a year that means it's time for our 11 month series three Apple watch review welcome everyone 80s Andrew here for Apple Insider in last September I picked up the space black stainless steel Apple watch with LTE this isn't the first Apple watch I've owned but this is the first time I've opted for the space black stainless steel rather than the silver usually after a year of daily wear the silver stainless to Apple watch would be covered in tiny little micro abrasions but that does not seem to be the case here with the space black of course this is not a Series three thing but just any of the space black stainless steel Apple watches but for me it was my first time experiencing it and I was pretty impressed that this thing had been pretty much unscathed after wearing it for a year there's literally not a single scratch around any of the sides or on the screen itself that not only keeps it looking great after a time but can really help the resale value if I ever choose to sell it I also made the tough call that here to opt for the LTE version I really wasn't certain I was going to use it but I figured it might as well give it a try and then if I didn't like it I could just turn off the LTE plan and just use it as a standard Apple watch but after having it I kind of became addicted to it it was amazing how many time they actually left my phone at home and didn't really realize how many times that I was doing it but any time I went out for a run took the dogs for a walk or even our little weekend trips to the lake house we would go down to the boat and I wouldn't have my phone with me I wouldn't have things like my music but with the LTE Apple watch I did I had my entire Apple music library right there on my wrist I could pair my workout headphones there's Libra tone track Plus that you saw or I could opt for just my ear pods I was lounging around more importantly if I went out for a run and left my phone at home I could still lock my door using my August I don't have to take a key or anything and I can still get security alerts all I'm gone if I'm gone for an hour at a time I want to know if someone happens to come into my home of a door gets unlocked I want to be able to see those things and with a series three Apple watch with LTE I was still getting all those alerts I could literally see previews from my cameras right on my wrist you know if I needed to be concerned it he made me feel more comfortable when I wasn't at home right didn't have my phone with me not to mention the fact that I could still get phone calls get text all of that while on my wrist I can respond to all those using Siri which is a lot faster here on the series 3 as well workouts didn't change too much on the series 3 watch OS 3 brought a few little niceties there but the biggest thing was swimming now I'm a scuba diver and I would love to be able to take my watch with me and down on those times but for now it still stays on the boat but I've definitely taken it swimming laps in the pool quite a few times and I really did enjoy it it was really nice people to have that there I could actually still get my glucose alerts on my wrist I could still get text everything else I could see the notifications even if I didn't always interact with them while I was actually in the water not only was it nice for swimming laps but just when we're hanging out on the lake and I still want to be able to have my watch on get notifications going in the water and not have to keep going back up and trying to get to my phone it was just a really nice thing to have if you're not around the water much it not gonna make a big deal but even just wearing in the shower I felt a lot better about excited have to worry about my watch getting destroyed if they got even a little bit wet there was obviously water proofing before but not nearly the amount of resistance that we saw here with the series 3 the biggest game-changer for me with the serious 3 though has to be the speed just throughout the OS everything seems very smooth I'm not seeing as many load times as I did in the past on the original Apple watch using it was very frustrating at times because all the time it took forever for an app to load for screen slowed for Siri to respond to you it just made it using it a pain but on the series 3 everything is so nice and smooth and fast including using Siri now I can just go through the Siri watch face and trigger a bunch of stuff watch I was for gonna make this even better but when I asked Siri to do something she responds almost instantly if I tell her good morning she can set my good morning homekit scene right away just a second or two later Meyler my lights start to turn on I can't tell you how much better that is to actually use the Apple watch another thing there and waiting no one wants to hold their wrist up in the air while they wait for something they load for Siri to respond it much easier to grab your phone at that point but here it works so much smoother on this new version of the Apple watch after comparing my usage on the series three versus the series two and my original series zero there's just a huge difference in how much I'm using this day-to-day my usage has increased significantly on all because it's faster and easier to use the biggest problem right now is there's still not a lot of apps that are solely on the Apple watch they still rely a lot on the iPhone which can make it a little bit less useful when you're taking it on the go I still wish more developers would embrace the Apple watch but it's gonna take more usage of from people from users to actually get them to embrace it one thing they don't care about is the battery life it's been pretty awesome occasionally on a weekend I'll maybe wish I could get like the whole weekend out of it without having to charge but for the most part it only takes a little bit of time to charge I can easily make it through a day and a half maybe two days depending on use so for me the Apple watch battery is absolutely fine looking forward to the series for I'm not sure if I'm gonna upgrade right now I am perfectly happy with the series 3 is the best Apple watch the best SmartWatch ever to hit the market and I don't regret for a second getting the black the space black stainless steel or getting LTE but the one thing that could encourage me to maybe upgrade would be a larger display just getting rid of those bezels keeping a similar shape because right now it does look a little bit chunky in fall this but we'll have to wait and see when Apple has in store what are you going to think of this Series 3 Apple watch let us know down below in the comments if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videowe've had the series three Apple watch strapped to our wrist every single day for almost a year that means it's time for our 11 month series three Apple watch review welcome everyone 80s Andrew here for Apple Insider in last September I picked up the space black stainless steel Apple watch with LTE this isn't the first Apple watch I've owned but this is the first time I've opted for the space black stainless steel rather than the silver usually after a year of daily wear the silver stainless to Apple watch would be covered in tiny little micro abrasions but that does not seem to be the case here with the space black of course this is not a Series three thing but just any of the space black stainless steel Apple watches but for me it was my first time experiencing it and I was pretty impressed that this thing had been pretty much unscathed after wearing it for a year there's literally not a single scratch around any of the sides or on the screen itself that not only keeps it looking great after a time but can really help the resale value if I ever choose to sell it I also made the tough call that here to opt for the LTE version I really wasn't certain I was going to use it but I figured it might as well give it a try and then if I didn't like it I could just turn off the LTE plan and just use it as a standard Apple watch but after having it I kind of became addicted to it it was amazing how many time they actually left my phone at home and didn't really realize how many times that I was doing it but any time I went out for a run took the dogs for a walk or even our little weekend trips to the lake house we would go down to the boat and I wouldn't have my phone with me I wouldn't have things like my music but with the LTE Apple watch I did I had my entire Apple music library right there on my wrist I could pair my workout headphones there's Libra tone track Plus that you saw or I could opt for just my ear pods I was lounging around more importantly if I went out for a run and left my phone at home I could still lock my door using my August I don't have to take a key or anything and I can still get security alerts all I'm gone if I'm gone for an hour at a time I want to know if someone happens to come into my home of a door gets unlocked I want to be able to see those things and with a series three Apple watch with LTE I was still getting all those alerts I could literally see previews from my cameras right on my wrist you know if I needed to be concerned it he made me feel more comfortable when I wasn't at home right didn't have my phone with me not to mention the fact that I could still get phone calls get text all of that while on my wrist I can respond to all those using Siri which is a lot faster here on the series 3 as well workouts didn't change too much on the series 3 watch OS 3 brought a few little niceties there but the biggest thing was swimming now I'm a scuba diver and I would love to be able to take my watch with me and down on those times but for now it still stays on the boat but I've definitely taken it swimming laps in the pool quite a few times and I really did enjoy it it was really nice people to have that there I could actually still get my glucose alerts on my wrist I could still get text everything else I could see the notifications even if I didn't always interact with them while I was actually in the water not only was it nice for swimming laps but just when we're hanging out on the lake and I still want to be able to have my watch on get notifications going in the water and not have to keep going back up and trying to get to my phone it was just a really nice thing to have if you're not around the water much it not gonna make a big deal but even just wearing in the shower I felt a lot better about excited have to worry about my watch getting destroyed if they got even a little bit wet there was obviously water proofing before but not nearly the amount of resistance that we saw here with the series 3 the biggest game-changer for me with the serious 3 though has to be the speed just throughout the OS everything seems very smooth I'm not seeing as many load times as I did in the past on the original Apple watch using it was very frustrating at times because all the time it took forever for an app to load for screen slowed for Siri to respond to you it just made it using it a pain but on the series 3 everything is so nice and smooth and fast including using Siri now I can just go through the Siri watch face and trigger a bunch of stuff watch I was for gonna make this even better but when I asked Siri to do something she responds almost instantly if I tell her good morning she can set my good morning homekit scene right away just a second or two later Meyler my lights start to turn on I can't tell you how much better that is to actually use the Apple watch another thing there and waiting no one wants to hold their wrist up in the air while they wait for something they load for Siri to respond it much easier to grab your phone at that point but here it works so much smoother on this new version of the Apple watch after comparing my usage on the series three versus the series two and my original series zero there's just a huge difference in how much I'm using this day-to-day my usage has increased significantly on all because it's faster and easier to use the biggest problem right now is there's still not a lot of apps that are solely on the Apple watch they still rely a lot on the iPhone which can make it a little bit less useful when you're taking it on the go I still wish more developers would embrace the Apple watch but it's gonna take more usage of from people from users to actually get them to embrace it one thing they don't care about is the battery life it's been pretty awesome occasionally on a weekend I'll maybe wish I could get like the whole weekend out of it without having to charge but for the most part it only takes a little bit of time to charge I can easily make it through a day and a half maybe two days depending on use so for me the Apple watch battery is absolutely fine looking forward to the series for I'm not sure if I'm gonna upgrade right now I am perfectly happy with the series 3 is the best Apple watch the best SmartWatch ever to hit the market and I don't regret for a second getting the black the space black stainless steel or getting LTE but the one thing that could encourage me to maybe upgrade would be a larger display just getting rid of those bezels keeping a similar shape because right now it does look a little bit chunky in fall this but we'll have to wait and see when Apple has in store what are you going to think of this Series 3 Apple watch let us know down below in the comments if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video\n"