Apple has announced its latest wearable, the Apple Watch Series 8. It includes a caller somesthesia sensor, which Apple says “takes its committedness to women’s wellness adjacent further.” The Series 8 besides includes 2 caller question sensors to observe if you’ve been successful a terrible car crash. It’ll beryllium disposable starting September 16th and volition outgo $399 for the GPS exemplary and $499 for the cellular model.

The institution says it tin way somesthesia changes arsenic flimsy arsenic 0.1 degrees Celsius and that it checks your somesthesia each 5 seconds. The institution says that tracking your assemblage somesthesia overnight tin assistance springiness you insights into your ovulation cycle, which it tin usage to heighten the watch’s rhythm tracking diagnostic for those who menstruate. The institution says that this information is encrypted connected the ticker itself — an important information for anyone tracking their cycles after the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Apple besides says that anyone utilizing Cycle Tracking volition present get a informing if their play is irregular, which could beryllium a motion of “underlying wellness conditions.”

The Series 8 packs immoderate caller sensors into a acquainted design. Image: Apple

The institution says that its clang detection diagnostic volition lone tally portion you’re driving, which helps sphere the watch’s 18-hour artillery life. Apple’s besides introducing a debased powerfulness mode, which extends the watch’s artillery beingness to 36 hours. The diagnostic volition besides beryllium coming to older watches starting with the Series 4 arsenic agelong arsenic they’re moving watchOS 9. Enabling the mode volition crook disconnected the always-on show and auto-workout tracking, but you’ll inactive get enactment tracking and clang detection. Also coming to older watches and the Series 8 is cellular roaming.

Last year’s model, the Series 7, featured a somewhat updated plan that made the surface bigger compared to erstwhile models (but did not, as rumors suggested, present a radically caller look with level sides). Aside from the redesign, it lone included a fewer caller features: faster charging, improved durability, and immoderate caller colors. The Series 8 aluminum comes successful 4 colors: midnight, starlight, silver, and red; the stainless alloy exemplary is disposable successful silver, gold, and graphite.

The greenish from the Apple Watch 7 is gone. Image: Apple

The Apple Watch Series 8 has a batch of competition. Fitbit recently revamped its smartwatch lineup with the Sense 2, Inspire 3, and Versa 4, which screen a wide scope of terms points. Garmin’s latest generation of smartwatches has besides garnered a batch of praise from reviewers. And portion the upcoming Pixel Watch and Samsung’s Galaxy Watches aren’t truly competing for iPhone users’ wrists, it’s ever absorbing to spot however Apple’s wearable stacks up with the flagships connected the Android side.