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Apple Watch introduction video updated with tweaked hardware and UI elements

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Apple re-uploaded its Apple Watch introduction video to YouTube today with a few small changes to the design of the device. It seems the company’s initial renders of the watch were not as accurate as they could have been, as the new version—which also appears on Apple.com now—sports a noticeably smaller screen…

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The change, which was spotted by an eagle-eyed 9to5Mac reader, was likely made to bring the watch seen in the video closer in line with the real device. A few elements of the interface have also been rearranged, such as the high and low temperature indicators in the screenshot below, which have been moved in the new version.

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The images in the Apple Watch gallery haven’t been updated, but they’ve always had the same design that was introduced to the video today. That page has been updated since its debut, with the word “Retina” being inserted into the description of each “sapphire crystal display.”

The Apple Watch is currently on display for one day only in Paris and is expected to enter mass production in January for release early next year.

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Comments

  1. Salvatore Aversa - 10 years ago

    Any idea on a pre-order date?

    • jedimindtrick99 - 10 years ago

      I’m going to say Feb. 6, 2015, just my wild guess, I know nothing of this product info. I just want to see if my prediction can be as right as any others. My reason for this date, Apple markets this as the most intimate product and what’s more intimate than Valentines Day which is on a Saturday (your welcome for early planning) but Apple usually releases products on Fridays (which would be 2/13/15)and preorders the week before and viola 2/6/15

  2. Jacob Alford - 10 years ago

    Dang, I was wondering why they re-uploaded that

  3. The high and low temperature indicators were not removed completely; they were re-positioned below the condition in the new version (under “partly cloudy” in the screenshot).

  4. vol7ron (@kiddoftheyear) - 10 years ago

    Not to be nit-picky, but aren’t they slated to have 2 sizes? Couldn’t this be the smaller of the two?

  5. Mr. Grey (@mister_grey) - 10 years ago

    The “tweaked hardware” line in the title of this article is way misleading. There is nothing different about the hardware at all, only a slight rendering mistake of the screen has been corrected.

  6. Ekim Güney Köse - 10 years ago

    why they are not changing ui font ? i want helvetica !!! does anybody think like me ?

  7. Franco Grisafi - 10 years ago

    I maybe slow but which is the old and new ? In the screen shots above

  8. rogifan - 10 years ago

    What hardware tweaks?

    • smigit - 10 years ago

      There are none…just some renderings that were updated to reflect some existing specs and promotional material already available.

  9. It is also has much smaller width – you can see it clearly, borders became much bigger :-(

  10. mark83607 - 9 years ago

    Won’t work with the 5s so i’m out.

  11. Andy Brooks - 9 years ago

    You gotta be pretty board out of your skull and super OCD to pay this much attention to a promo video or to even care about this article. And yet somehow I do…..

  12. aeronperyton - 9 years ago

    Remember when the iPhone got smaller just before launch? They used a different hand model because the first one made it look larger than it actually was. Since the entire Watch video is a rendering, it seems they just fixed the render.

  13. Jeremiah Allan Johnson - 9 years ago

    Man I can’t wait to get one of these!

  14. Craig Patchett - 9 years ago

    It makes much more visual sense to have the high and low temperatures next to the current temperature.

  15. David Alexander Harrison - 9 years ago

    I think that in the original version he claimed that the S1 chip was unique, someone obviously pointed-out to them that all SoCs are essentially entire computers in one component…