Apple’s September 9 occasion launched the brand new Collection 10 watches and added a brand new colour choice for the Watch Extremely 2. Nonetheless, there was no Extremely 3 and no new Watch SE mannequin. A 3rd version of the Apple Watch SE is unquestionably within the works, writes Mark Gurman of Bloomberg.
The third Apple Watch SE will seemingly arrive in 2025. In accordance with Gurman, Apple’s group has been busy changing the design from the unique aluminum to plastic. Utilizing plastic will enable Apple to cut back the worth and to introduce new, bolder colours.
The Watch SE (2022) is already fairly low cost at $250 for a 40mm mannequin and $280 for a 44mm one, even the mobile improve is fairly low cost at simply $50 greater than the GPS mannequin. Nonetheless, one rival, the Samsung Galaxy Watch FE, is $200, so a value drop may be needed.
The present Apple Watch SE (2022) doesn’t have a lot selection with regards to colours
As for the brand new colours, bear in mind the iPhone 5c? That was plastic and Apple went fairly wild with the colours. Children would possibly like the brand new colours and oldsters would possibly like the brand new costs. As Gurman factors out, an increasing number of nations are contemplating or already banning smartphones in faculties, so the Watch SE could possibly be a method to keep linked with no cellphone. Apple even provides a method to arrange a watch in your child even when they don’t have their very own iPhone (you employ yours as a substitute).
Anyway, Gurman additionally studies that the brand new SE may get a chipset improve. The Watch SE (2022) makes use of the Apple S8 chipset, identical because the Collection 8 watches that got here out in 2022. Nonetheless, the underlying {hardware} isn’t all that totally different from the S6 from 2020. Apple was fairly imprecise concerning the upgrades to the brand new Apple S10 chipset, specializing in the AI facet of issues. Whether or not the brand new SE has an S9 or an S10 chip would possibly rely upon provide and costs.
A fast phrase on the Extremely sequence – the Apple Watch Extremely 2 from 2023 was a reasonably minor improve and Apple is skipping a 12 months earlier than Extremely 3 arrives. Gurman means that the Extremely sequence will transfer to a 2-year improve schedule, similar to the SE. Even then, the Watch Extremely 3 may not be significantly spectacular.
