The new Apple Watch Series 10 is a mundane hardware update, but sleep apnea detection will help if you stop breathing while snoozing through the Glowtime event.
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Apple’s Glowtime event happened today, and some of the early parts of that slickly-produced video presentation (who else misses live demos? Just me?) were dedicated to the newly released Apple Watch Series 10. The hardware itself may not be very exciting, but some of the software features will be helpful to folks with active lifestyles. There are also some nifty software upgrades that come along with it. Apple Watch Series 10 Bores
First up, the Apple Watch Series 10 does not bring back the pulse oximeter that was disabled in software back in January. However, it does add some new sensors that swimmers might enjoy: a depth gauge and a water temperature sensor. The new S10 chip inside the Series 10 has a dual-core CPU, four-core neural engine, and 64 GB of onboard storage, all of which track with what the Series 9 had last year. Unless the new water-related sensors are important, it’s probably not enough to get folks with a Series 9 (or even a Series 8) to upgrade.
The Apple Watch Series 10 does at least look different from its predecessor. Both the 42 mm and 46 mm models are exactly one millimeter larger diagonally than the Series 9 they replace, and sport a slightly higher resolution (374×446 for the smaller and 416×496 for the larger) to maintain that 326 ppi pixel density. The rest of the display specs are holdovers from previous generations, including an LTPO OLED display with a maximum brightness of 2,000 nits.
