Our quick take
Apple Watch Ultra initial
Rugged design
- 49mm casing, titanium IP6X, MIL-STD-810H, EN13319, WR100 Customisable Action button One colour option: Natural Titanium
Larger, flatter display
- Always-on Retina display, 410 x 502 pixels 2000nits brightness Flat Sapphire Crystal
Hardware and features
- S8 with 64-bit dual-core processor W3 wireless chip, U1 LTE and UMTS Bluetooth 5.3
Longer-lasting battery
- Up to 36-hours Up to 18-hours LTE Up to 60-hours in special mode
Software
- watchOS 9
To recap
The Apple Watch Ultra is the Apple Watch Series 8 on steroids, plus so much more. It’s bulked up to offer a more rough and ready device with not only a tougher casing, but a bigger one too, alongside a bigger display, more tactile buttons and extra buttons too.
Whether it can compete with the Garmin Fenix models of the extreme sports wearables remains to be seen for now, but if the battery claims are accurate and the Watch Ultra performs with the accuracy its past siblings have been renowned for, it could be the Apple Watch to watch. Pun entirely intended.
