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    Watch Series 3 (38mm) Aluminum case GPS
    The Apple Watch Series 3 (38mm) Aluminum case GPS is a smartwatch with a 1.4-inch touchscreen color OLED Retina display, compatible with iOS and includes step counting, sleep tracking, and calories burned.
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    Description
    The Apple Watch Series 3 (38mm) Aluminum case GPS is a smartwatch with a 1.4-inch touchscreen color OLED Retina display, compatible with iOS and includes step counting, sleep tracking, and calories burned.

    CR Expert Take

    How did it perform in our expert lab testing?

    What goes into the Overall Score?

    Ratings

    EXPERT LAB TESTS

    Ease of use
     /  5
    Versatility
     /  5
    Health
     /  5
    Step-count performance
     /  5
    Heart-rate performance
     /  5
    Scratch test
     /  5
    Water resistance test
     /  5
    Ease of interaction
     /  5
    Readability in bright light
     /  5
    Readability in low light
     /  5
    Ease of pairing
     /  5
    Heart-rate monitor accuracy
     /  5
    Step count accuracy
     /  5
    Color
     /  5

    Detailed Test Results

    Overall this model was very easy to use, somewhat accurate for counting steps, and very good at measuring heart-rate accuracy. With recent version smartphones, our experts found it very easy to pair, very easy to interact with, and very easy to connect to charger. In our water immersion test it passed the manufacturer's claim of 164 feet for 10 minutes.

    About

    The Apple Watch Series 3 (38mm) Aluminum case GPS is a smartwatch compatible with iOS and includes real-time heart-rate monitor, steps, sleep, and calories. It has a touchscreen display with 272 x 340 screen resolution. Lacks always-on display capability. It has an on-screen battery indicator and a wireless magnetic charging dock. It has phone notifications, and vibration alerts. It includes inactivity alerts that remind you to move if you are sitting for a long time. It has a find my phone and find my watch feature, can control playback of music stored on your smartphone and can control playback of music stored on your watch. Has WiFi, GPS and NFC. The manufacturer offers changeable straps. It has weather at-wrist feature. Has LTE and UMTS, Siri speaks, 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz, and Bluetooth 4.2. The Apple Watch and iPhone service provider must be the same. The scrolling of vertical views is now controlled by rotating the Digital Crown. On the lock screen, the watch's PIN pad has been enlarged making numerical input easier. The new Flashlight tool lights the watch's screen using solid white, flashing white, or solid red light. The Music app now automatically shows up as your primary watch screen on wrist raise when you're listening to a song on your watch or iPhone. Improvements have been made to the Heart-rate app and its tracking, including: overall faster readings, an overview of your current heart-rate, resting rate, walking average, last recorded exercise, and alerts if your heart-rate peaks while your watch detects no major activity. It has multi-sport tracking features: outdoor walk, outdoor run, outdoor cycle, indoor walk, indoor run, indoor cycle, elliptical, rower, stair stepper, high intensity interval training, pool swim, open water swim. Its dimensions are 1.5 x 1.7 x 0.5 inches (LxWxD) and it weighs 1.8 ounces.

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