If you are planning to buy Apple Watch series 9, today seems like a decent time to dive in. The smartwatch is currently available at multiple retailers, including Amazon, for $299. Best Buy, Target and Walmart. It’s not the lowest price we’ve seen – several colors fell short for example, down to $269 earlier this month — but steeper discounts were generally uncommon. This deal takes about $30 off a typical watch street price on Amazon, and it’s $100 less than buying directly from Apple. As of this writing, the offer is for the 41mm non-mobile version of the watch in Midnight, Red, Silver or Starlight. It includes models with a rubber, S/M or M/L size Sport Band or nylon Sport Loop.
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This is one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for Apple’s latest wearables.
We gave it to Apple Watch Series 9 92 points It’s a top pick in our review last September and currently in our guide the best smart watches. It’s fast, waterproof, and can handle many tasks that would normally require an iPhone, from checking iMessages to calling Siri and using Apple Pay. Most of the health and fitness tracking features are still here, as well as safety-related tools like fall detection and an emergency SOS feature. Compared to the cheaper Apple Watch SE, it has a slightly larger always-on screen, which makes it less difficult to check the time at a glance.
New to this model is the double Tap feature, which allows you to respond to notifications without physically touching the device and allows you to perform multiple Siri requests on the device without having to stay online all the time. It also has double the internal storage (64GB) as the Series 8, and its screen’s highest brightness rating (2000 nits) is twice as high.
However, the usual caveats for any Apple Watch still apply. Everything will work only with iPhone. The battery will last most of a typical day, but not very long. There are better options for sleep tracking. Due to ongoing patent disputeThere is also Apple should have disabled it of the clock blood oxygen monitoring feature. Overall, if you own an Apple Watch today and are still happy with it, there’s no big need to switch. But if you’re looking to upgrade today, it should be a nice value.
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