Apple Watch Series 3

Apple Watch Series 3 has relieved my Forgotten Phone Anxiety. You know the feeling: You reach your destination and paw at the outside of your pocket to feel the phone-sized lump and it isn’t there. And you panic.

Mind you, my stomach still drops when I realize my phone isn’t with me (even times when I had purposefully left it at home), but now my fears quickly subside. With an LTE-equipped Apple Watch Series 3 on my wrist, I don’t need to turn around and head back to my house. I know that if someone is trying to get in touch with me, they can, and if an urgent email comes in, I can answer it.

That being said, I didn’t need more than a couple days with my LTE-equipped Apple Watch Series 3 to see that it’s not meant to be away from an iPhone for very long. Its main selling point might be independence, but it’s still a generation or two away from being a full replacement for your iPhone.

Design

Reviews of Apple products generally devote many words to design, but there’s not a lot to say about Apple Watch Series 3. It’s the same dimensions as Series 2 (38.6x33.3x11.4mm or 42.5x36.4x11.4mm, depending on which size you choose), and there’s just one new colour, grey, in the £1,299 ceramic Edition model, as well as a tweaked gold aluminium to match the iPhone 8. That means all old bands, stands, and chargers will work fine.

If you want to be picky, it’s about a millimetre thicker than the Series 1 model Apple is still selling. But that’s with more storage (16- vs 8GB), a bigger battery, GPS, 50m water resistance, a barometric altimeter, and, of course, cellular. I’ve tested several LTE-enabled Android Wear watches that make the 42mm Apple Watch look small, so putting such