CNET reviews Apple Watch Ultra 3: ‘Straddles that line between rugged and refined’

Apple Watch Ultra 3
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is the most advanced Apple Watch, delivering expanded health, fitness, safety, and connectivity features, and seamlessly shifting between a powerful sports watch, an elegant smartwatch, and a comprehensive health companion.
Designed to keep users more connected and safer wherever they are with built-in satellite communications, Apple Watch Ultra 3 allows users to text emergency services, message friends and family, and share their location, all while they’re off the grid. The ultimate sports and adventure watch now features the largest screen of any Apple Watch, a display with a 1Hz always-on refresh rate, 5G cellular capabilities, the most accurate GPS in a sports watch, and up to 42 hours of battery life — with up to 72 hours in Low Power Mode. Notifications for signs of chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, offer a groundbreaking new health insight, and sleep score helps users understand the quality of their sleep. Updates to the Workout app, including Workout Buddy — a first-of-its-kind fitness experience powered by Apple Intelligence — add to a robust suite of advanced fitness features.
Vanessa Hand Orellana for CNET:
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The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is like the luxury Land Rover you see in safari brochures: It’s adventure-ready on the outside, with all the modern conveniences on the inside. This smartwatch is ready to carry you back to everyday life without the dust-in-your-teeth, back-busting bounce of a beat-up Jeep. It straddles that line between rugged and refined, with just enough upgrades under the hood to make it worth the wait…
[T]he Ultra 3 builds on its predecessors with satellite connectivity, allowing for an extra layer of protection when you’re off the grid. There’s also a faster processor, longer battery life and, to my surprise, a design that isn’t as bulky as I feared. Even for bed.
It’s the all-wheel-drive SUV of the smartwatch world: built for adventure, but without sacrificing the comfort, convenience and that seamless iPhone integration that only the Apple Watch can offer…
The Ultra 3 pushes past the 36-hour mark set by the Ultra and Ultra 2: Apple says it can run for 42 hours of daily use, but you can likely squeeze in a few additional hours depending on what you do with it. During my testing, I was able to get anywhere between 45 and 49 hours… For someone used to charging an Apple Watch almost daily, that extra day of charge felt almost disconcerting. For context, I got about 28 hours of use out of the Series 11, including a 45-minute run.

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