Do you need cellular? All Apple Watch Series and SE models can be purchased with Bluetooth connectivity alone. Adding cellular capacity raises the sticker price by about $100, plus the roughly $10-per-month fee for a wireless plan. The Ultra models can be purchased only with cellular capacity, but you don\u2019t have to activate it. <\/p>\n
Most people probably don\u2019t need a watch with cellular. If you\u2019re a runner and you want to leave your phone at home but want to be reachable for calls and texts, the cellular option is a sensible upgrade. It might also be useful to an older person or anyone depending on the fall-protection features, which would otherwise rely on keeping a smartphone within range. <\/p>\n
But many users are rarely out of Bluetooth range of their smartphones, which makes a cellular watch redundant. <\/p>\n
Is bigger better? Regardless of which model you\u2019re considering, anyone with smaller wrists will probably gravitate toward the smaller sizes. While men tend to buy the bigger size (which costs a little more), many find the smaller watch to be just right.<\/p>\n
Fancy finishes: The starting prices listed in this article are for the basic aluminum finish. But on the Series 11, you can level up with a more premium slate, gold, or natural titanium finish, though you\u2019re likely to see little functional difference. Apple also offers top-of-the-line Herm\u00e8s designs<\/a> with fashion-forward straps and hefty prices. <\/p>\n Beyond the Apple Watch: Yes, Apple\u2019s smartwatches are great, especially if you own an iPhone or other Apple devices, but we also recommend models made by companies like Google<\/a>, Fitbit<\/a>, and Samsung<\/a>. As always, Consumer Reports members can consult our smartwatch and fitness tracker ratings<\/a> for full test results on more than 50 models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you need cellular? All Apple Watch Series and SE models can be purchased with Bluetooth connectivity alone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[42913,59298,77874,49,48,195,12439,77877,77875,77876,61,77873],"class_list":["post-145571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-apple-watch-se","tag-apple-watch-ultra-2","tag-best-apple-watch","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-series-10","tag-series-8","tag-series-9","tag-technology","tag-which-apple-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}