Over the past week, I’ve been running with the new Apple Watch 7, which goes on sale today. While the new watch is a package of incremental improvements over the previous model, some of the changes impact its value as a running companion.
The marquee feature of the 7 is its screen size. Apple’s engineers did everything they could to expand the size of the usable display space on the watch face. The display has 20% more screen area than the Watch 6. And the bezel–the black strip that borders the screen–has been squeezed to a width of just 1.7mm.
In general, Apple has enlarged the Watch apps to extend toward the new limits of the display, and they’ve made some of the text in the apps bolder and brighter. When you do a side-to-side comparison between the Series 6 and the Series 7, the 7’s graphics don’t look dramatically larger, but it’s enough to matter. I noticed the size increase most while I was running and wanted to glean information from my wrist with just a…
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Source : fastcompany.com
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