apple: Which is Better: Apple Watch SE or Series 5 Smart Watch?
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Needless to say,
Apple
smart watches bought revolution in watches category. It introduced several amazing features that makes it a unique piece people love to invest in. With so many models available in the market, it might be a tough choice. Today, we are doing a comparison between the popular variants i.e.
Apple Watch
SE and Series 5 smartwatch.
Though the Apple Watch SE presents a bunch of features at a lower price, but is it a better option to buy than the
Apple Watch Series
5? Let’s find out.
Display
Launched in 2019, the Apple Watch Series 5 carried a lot of compelling upgrades. It presents an always-on display, the all new Compass app, and emergency calling feature for cellular variants, while the SE has a
Retina
LTPO display with twist to wake feature, but doesnt have the Always On feature.
In brief, it was one of the most qualified smartwatches of its time. While the Apple Watch SE is a much more affordable smartwatch that became the choice of many. It comes with almost alike features but at a lower price tag.
General Features
The Apple Watch SE has the latest motion sensors along with the similar gyroscope, altimeter, and accelerometer like Apple Watch Series 6 and Series 7. There is a new watch face developed particularly to meet the wearer’s requirement. Apart from this, there is a sleep tracker, low-range VO2 Max, and language translation. There are Focus modes that focus only on important notification as per user’s requirements. The SE Series has a screen resolution of 324×394 pixels while the Series 5 watch comes with a screen resolution of 448 x 368 pixels.
Unlike Series 5, the Watch SE doesn’t have any ECG sensor and always-on Retina display that makes the Series 5 watch a better option. Series 5’s sports a varied case material options (involving stainless steel, titanium, and ceramic), while SHE has aluminium-only case finish.
The Series 5 and SE both support 802.11b/g/n on 2.4Ghz band only and Bluetooth 5.0. Both watches lie at the same band as far as connectivity is concerned.
Performance
Both the watches have the same S5 chipset thus delivering equivalent performance and battery life. The Series 5 and SE delivers the same base performance as both Apple smart watches are packed with dual core 64-bit processor that is upto 2x faster than S3.
Colours
When it comes to colour options, the SE series is available in five variants i.e. White, Yellow, Black, Orange, and
Blue
, and Series 5 watch also comes in 5 colour choices i.e. Black, Pink, Silver, Black, and Gold.
In short, both the Apple SE & Apple 5 Series smartwatches have mostly similar features. If budget is a concern for you, then the SE series offers similar features at considerably lesser price, but if you wish to own the latest one with all specs and bigger screen then go for Apple 5 Series. Also, you can wait for the upcoming Apple smartwatch launch prior to making your decision and buy the newest watch.
