Apple Watch SE 3: 2 months later - it’s the one to get — Transcript

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1. 0:00I am a casual smartwatch user and the
2. 0:02Apple Watch SE3 is probably the one that
3. 0:06most people should get.
4. 0:10Okay, this year I did not gravitate
5. 0:12toward the more expensive Apple Watch
6. 0:14Series 11 or the very huge Apple Watch
7. 0:18Ultra. I did not consider the Apple
8. 0:20Watch Series 10 at a lower price, too.
9. 0:23Instead, I've been wearing this Apple
10. 0:26Watch SE3 uh since it was released in
11. 0:29September. Is it finally the right
12. 0:31balance between budget and features? SE
13. 0:35Apple Watches have always been dragging
14. 0:38their feet at least a couple of
15. 0:39generations behind the mainline models
16. 0:43and excluding features that are
17. 0:45genuinely cool. Now, we finally got the
18. 0:48always on display, which makes the watch
19. 0:50look more like a watch and less like a
20. 0:53glass pebble on your wrist. And the
21. 0:55magical pinch gesture controls or the
22. 0:58latest flick gesture control are also
23. 1:01here. Not only that, it packs the same
24. 1:03S10 chip found inside the Apple Watch
25. 1:06Series 11. So you still have ondevice
26. 1:09Siri, the mentioned gestures, 5G
27. 1:12connectivity if you choose it, and the
28. 1:14same lightning fast response. Okay, let
29. 1:17me rip off the band-aid and talk about
30. 1:20the compromises first. What is the bad
31. 1:23about the Apple Watch SE3? Mostly it's
32. 1:26the design. Uh quick recap, the Apple
33. 1:28Watch has gone through four iterations
34. 1:31of design. They mostly made the display
35. 1:34incrementally bigger and the bezels
36. 1:36around the screen thinner, but the
37. 1:39latest models also have a thinner
38. 1:41overall body. The Apple Watch SE3 still
39. 1:44has the 2018 facelift, so it's two
40. 1:48design generations in the past. It's not
41. 1:51bad, but you can see it. The new liquid
42. 1:54glass watch faces look great on the
43. 1:57newer Apple watches. Not so good with
44. 1:59this chungus bezel around them.
45. 2:01Secondly, your color options are
46. 2:04midnight or starite. So, blackish or
47. 2:07silverish. I do wish our office unit was
48. 2:11the black model to be honest, as it
49. 2:13would more seamlessly hide body from
50. 2:15bezel from display. It is what it is.
51. 2:18The good news is that [music] you can
52. 2:20accessorize these Apple watches at will
53. 2:23with a plethora of watch bands
54. 2:25available, not just from Apple. Um, the
55. 2:28market is flooded with third-party
56. 2:30offers, most of which can look pretty
57. 2:33good and cost you much less than
58. 2:36official bands. Then it doesn't have
59. 2:38deeper health metrics like the ECG or
60. 2:41the hypertension notifications. [music]
61. 2:44There is no blood oxygen scanning on
62. 2:46this one. It does however include sleep
63. 2:48apnea notifications now which is pretty
64. 2:51good because a lot a lot of people have
65. 2:55sleep apnnea without even knowing it.
66. 2:57Okay, how is this smartwatch as an
67. 3:00everyday wearable? I really like it.
68. 3:02When it comes to synchronized
69. 3:04notifications, wrist vibrations, and
70. 3:06responding or even picking up a call
71. 3:09from your watch, the Apple Watch is
72. 3:12still maybe the best smartwatch
73. 3:13experience you can have. It just syncs
74. 3:16and gels with the iPhone really well.
75. 3:19For example, when I have the watch on
76. 3:21and I get a notification on the iPhone,
77. 3:23the iPhone itself is somewhere out
78. 3:25there, it will not vibrate. Only the
79. 3:28watch will vibrate obviously because
80. 3:30it's on me. Conversely, if I'm actively
81. 3:34looking at the iPhone in my hand and
82. 3:36chat messages are rolling in, the watch
83. 3:39will not annoyingly [music]
84. 3:41vibrate my wrist. And I have to tell
85. 3:43you, it took Samsung some time to figure
86. 3:46that one out, and they still aren't
87. 3:48quite there yet. Picking up a call from
88. 3:51the watch is not ideal. Uh, but it does
89. 3:55work when you're in a dire situation.
90. 3:58Your hands are busy, the phone is away,
91. 4:00something of the sort. The speaker is
92. 4:03loud enough for you to hear it in, say,
93. 4:06inside a running car or even on a
94. 4:08slightly loud street. The microphone
95. 4:11seems to be working just fine as I
96. 4:14haven't gotten any complaints from
97. 4:16callers in the rare occasion that I have
98. 4:18to pick up [music] from my watch. My
99. 4:19point is that this core Apple Watch
100. 4:22experience is intact here on the Apple
101. 4:24Watch SE3 and that's great. Then we have
102. 4:27the new LTPO display which Apple doesn't
103. 4:30label as wide angle but it's viewing
104. 4:33angles are quite wide. We have the
105. 4:35ondevice voice memos which come in handy
106. 4:39for quick and fleeting ideas. The camera
107. 4:41control which I absolutely love for
108. 4:44vlogging or long range selfies. I'd say
109. 4:47it's pretty durable too. Apple calls the
110. 4:49glass crack resistant Ion X glass. Take
111. 4:53note, not scratch resistant branding
112. 4:55like on the series 11. Let's see. I've
113. 4:57been wearing this almost every day for
114. 5:00the past 2 months. Inspecting the glass
115. 5:03for fine scratches, but still none.
116. 5:06Knock on wood. I did drop the watch once
117. 5:09while changing the watch bands. Uh, it
118. 5:12was from about chest height and it hit
119. 5:15the hard tile floor clean. The aluminum
120. 5:19got a bit of a dent here, but that's
121. 5:21about all the damage it took. Okay, so
122. 5:24for fitness tracking, look, I know you
123. 5:27can't tell, but I'm not really the most
124. 5:29sportsoriented guy out here. Uh, I do
125. 5:32however tend to walk as I do try to get
126. 5:36these steps in whenever I can. And I
127. 5:38have to say the automatic workout
128. 5:40detection of the Apple watches is still
129. 5:43not great. Like a Samsung smartwatch is
130. 5:47pretty quick to figure out, okay, you're
131. 5:49walking. It's been this long. I am
132. 5:51activating a walk workout for you right
133. 5:53now. And then it pauses and it stops the
134. 5:56workout pretty consistently when I stop
135. 5:59walking.
136. 6:01The Apple Watch, not so good. Uh, I
137. 6:04walked to a bar the other night and just
138. 6:07as I was reaching my destination, the
139. 6:09Apple Watch vibrated. Hey, you seem to
140. 6:11be walking. Want to activate the
141. 6:12workout? I thought to myself, well, I'm
142. 6:15almost there, but sure, let's turn it on
143. 6:17and let it record the calories or
144. 6:19whatever. I walked in and forgot that
145. 6:22the workout is on. Half an hour later, I
146. 6:25look at my watch. Hey, it says I'm still
147. 6:27walking. Okay, there goes that metric.
148. 6:29To be clear, it should automatically
149. 6:31detect that I've stopped moving and
150. 6:33remind me to end the workout manually.
151. 6:35Uh, I either didn't get the vibration
152. 6:38that time or something went wrong, but I
153. 6:41have generally found out that the
154. 6:43automatic features are less reliable
155. 6:46than on say Samsung uh smart watches. Of
156. 6:49course, when you are more deliberate
157. 6:51with your workouts and you activate and
158. 6:53stop them manually, the Apple Watch has
159. 6:55been shown time and again to be pretty
160. 6:58accurate and helpful. Most important,
161. 7:01you can make custom runs or let the AI
162. 7:04coach you to progress. Um, the new coach
163. 7:07features which uses AI voice to
164. 7:09encourage you and tell you how you're
165. 7:11doing compared to your last exercise.
166. 7:13[music]
167. 7:14U, it's a bit hit or miss. I can see the
168. 7:17value in it, but it's so annoying when
169. 7:20it kicks in in the middle of your
170. 7:22favorite song. You can turn it off
171. 7:24entirely, but I don't want that. I just
172. 7:27want to be able to skip it and make it
173. 7:29stop talking when it interrupts
174. 7:32something. For battery life, I've been
175. 7:34pretty happy with it. I can get two days
176. 7:36of battery life if I turn off the always
177. 7:39on display feature. The one thing I wish
178. 7:42it had is an easier way to toggle always
179. 7:45on. uh like why isn't it in the control
180. 7:48center over here? Why do I have to go
181. 7:50into settings and scroll way too much to
182. 7:53find it? So yeah, uh one day use, sure,
183. 7:56definitely 2 days possible. It charges
184. 7:59up relatively fast, too. Not as fast as
185. 8:02the Series 11, but still you can get 80%
186. 8:05of juice in 45 minutes. So just have it
187. 8:10on to track your sleep during the night.
188. 8:12Pop it on the charger first thing in the
189. 8:14morning, then put it back on when you're
190. 8:16ready to leave. Pretty easy. I think the
191. 8:18Apple Watch experience as a whole is
192. 8:21pretty fleshed out now. It does feel
193. 8:23like a very nice companion device to the
194. 8:26iPhone. And it's a great idea to have
195. 8:29one. Even if it's not a great idea to
196. 8:31spend $400 on a say series 11, I think
197. 8:34that the Apple Watch SE3
198. 8:37is just enough to give you that core
199. 8:39Apple experience, enhance your
200. 8:42interactions and use of the iPhone, and
201. 8:45sprinkle some useful health services on
202. 8:47top like sleep apnea notifications,
203. 8:50nightly [music] temperature tracking,
204. 8:52the activity rings to motivate you to
205. 8:55move more, and the full Apple fitness
206. 8:58platform. as such the sleep quality
207. 9:00tracking and of course the helpful crash
208. 9:03and fall detection. It's not perfect,
209. 9:06but whatever gripes I have with the
210. 9:08cheap SE3, I have with the bigger models
211. 9:11as well. Now, if you're more serious
212. 9:13about health tracking, you should
213. 9:15graduate to a series 11 or a
214. 9:18discounted/refurbished
215. 9:20series 9 at the very least. You will get
216. 9:24the new thin design and all the features
217. 9:26of a series 11 for less money. That's
218. 9:29it. The sub and like buttons are over
219. 9:31there and I'm going over there. Bye.