Apple adaugă control gestual prin atingere dublă la Watch Ultra 2, pregătit pentru aventură

Sâmbătă, 16 Septembrie 2023 16:26

Common features can be accessed by double-tapping the index finger and thumb of the watch hand

If you thought that last year's Apple Watch Ultra was a pretty impressive adventure wearable, there was clearly room for improvement as the second generation launches – with a much brighter display, double-tap control and on-watch Siri.

The latest rugged smartwatch from Apple has a very similar outward appearance to the first Ultra, but the 49-mm display's brightness gets a 50% bump to 3,000 nits for improved readability in direct sunlight.

Inside, the new smart wearable gains custom silicon in the shape of the S9 SiP (system in a package), which is home to a 2nd-gen ultra-wideband chip for "precision finding" of a misplaced iPhone and a four-core neural engine that's reported able to "process machine learning tasks up to twice as fast as the original Apple Watch Ultra.""Double-tap controls the primary button in an app so it can be used to stop a timer, play and pause music, or snooze an alarm," explained Apple. "The gesture can be used to answer and end a phone call, take a photo with the Camera Remote on Apple Watch, or even switch to the new Elevation view in the Compass app to see the relative elevation of saved waypoints"

This allows for on-device Siri voice queries and supports the new double-tap feature, where a machine-learning algorithm uses data from onboard sensors to register wrist movements and blood-flow changes when the user quickly taps together the thumb and index finger on the watch hand.

*** -- Product page: Apple Watch Ultra 2

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