{"id":44847,"date":"2025-09-26T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44847\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:27:07","slug":"is-the-apple-watch-se-3-a-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44847\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Apple Watch SE 3 a good deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple recently unveiled three new Apple Watch models<\/a>: the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3. With its $799 price tag, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 is clearly aimed at a niche, high-end market and athletes. For most consumers, the purchasing decision likely lies between the Apple Watch SE 3 and the Apple Watch Series 11, starting at $249 and $399, respectively.<\/p>\n

Despite its lower price tag, the Apple Watch SE 3 comes with much of the same software as the Series 11. If you\u2019re looking for a straightforward smartwatch with essential features like step counting and sleep tracking, the SE 3 is an excellent and affordable choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 offer modest improvements over their predecessors, the SE 3 has received a significant upgrade from the SE 2. The smartwatch jumps from the S8 chip to the S10 and now features an always-on display, supports fast charging, offers better crack resistance, introduces new health features, includes a wrist-temperature sensor for advanced sleep tracking and retrospective ovulation insights, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Although it\u2019s not as flashy as the Series 11 and Ultra 3, it definitely stands out and packs great value, especially for first-time buyers. The gap between the standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, if you want access to more advanced health features, better battery life, and a larger display, the Series 11 would be the better option for your needs.\u00a0But, it\u2019s worth comparing both models because the SE 3 might be all you need. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll walk you through the similarities and differences between the two smart watches to help inform your decision.<\/p>\n

Similarities between the Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch SE 3<\/p>\n

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S10 chip: Both models come with the same chip, which means there won\u2019t be significant differences in performance.<\/p>\n

Always-on Retina display: The watches can display the watch face and time, even when your wrist is down.<\/p>\n

Heart health features: Both watches feature high and low heart rate notifications, irregular rhythm notifications, and low cardio fitness notifications.<\/p>\n

Wrist flick and double tap gestures: Both models let you do a \u201cwrist flick\u201d gesture to dismiss notifications and timers, and a \u201cdouble tap\u201d gesture to trigger actions like answering calls or playing music.<\/p>\n

Emergency SOS: The watches can quickly call local emergency services, share your location, and notify your emergency contacts once you press and hold the side button.<\/p>\n

Fall detection and crash detection: Both watches can automatically alert emergency services and designated emergency contacts when a hard fall or severe car crash is detected.<\/p>\n

Water resistant to 50 meters: Both watches can be used for swimming.<\/p>\n

Sleep tracking: Both models feature sleep tracking, sleep tracking notifications, and Apple\u2019s new Sleep score, which gives you a number on a scale of 1 to 100 for how well you slept. They both also have temperature sensing, which can provide insight into your wellbeing by tracking nightly changes in your wrist temperature.<\/p>\n

Cycle tracking with retrospective ovulation estimates: The watches can determine when you most likely ovulated in your previous cycle.<\/p>\n

Fast charging capabilities: Both watches are fast-charge capable (up to 80% charge in about 30 minutes for the Series 11 and up to 80% charge in about 45 minutes for the SE 3. 15 minutes for up to 8 hours of normal use for both models).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Find iPhone: Both watches let you press a button to play a sound on your iPhone to help you locate it. However, the Series 11 does feature \u201cprecision finding,\u201d which means it can pinpoint the exact location of your phone.<\/p>\n

Differences between the Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch SE 3<\/p>\n

Battery life: The Series 11 can last up to 24 hours (28 hours in low power mode), while the SE can last up to 18 hours (32 hours in low power mode).<\/p>\n

Health features: The Series 11 comes with more advanced health tracking features, including hypertension notifications (detects high blood pressure), an electrical heat sensor, an ECG app, and Blood Oxygen app.<\/p>\n

Screen and display: The Series 11 can reach up to 2000 nits, while the SE 3 goes up to 1000 nits. Plus, the Series 11 features a wide-angle OLED, while the SE 3 has a simple OLED display.<\/p>\n

Size: The Series 11 is available in 46mm and 44mm sizes with aluminum or titanium cases, while the SE 3 comes in 44mm and 40mm sizes with an aluminum case. Additionally, the Series 11 is almost 10% thinner than the SE 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Color: The Series 11 comes in aluminum colors: Jet Black, Silver, Rose Gold, and Space Gray, and titanium colors: Natural, Gold, and Slate. The SE 3 comes in Midnight Aluminum and Starlight Aluminum.<\/p>\n

Other smaller differences: The Series 11 comes with a depth gauge to 6 meters, a water temperature sensor, 1 nit minimum brightness (vs 2 nit minimum brightness on the SE 3), and certified IP6X dust resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple recently unveiled three new Apple Watch models: the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[936,1313,33318,3079,5076,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-44847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-apple-watch-se-3","tag-apple-watch-series-11","tag-evergreens","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}