I’m Excited. I Finally Upgraded My Apple Watch SE.

I’m already convinced I made the right choice.

Lee B Newell
5 min readSep 28, 2022

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Authors wrist showing his ‘new’ old watch, a Casio G-Shock.
Photo supplied by Author.

You may remember a previous post I wrote where I was wondering about whether I needed to upgrade my Apple Watch or stick with the model I had.

In the end, I did decide to upgrade. But, that was mainly because the battery life on the Series 2 became ridiculously short. I couldn’t get through a day, even with very light use. That, along with sluggish performance was making the watch almost painful to use.

I went for the SE model. I didn’t write about that upgrade though, because despite the new watch being several years newer, it was much the same. Yes, more acceptable battery life and snappier performance — but otherwise much the same deal as before and honestly, there wasn’t much worth writing about.

At that point, I was feeling like Apple had charged me another £250 to continue using the same watch. Not a good feeling.

The experience did get me thinking though. What do we mean when we talk about ‘upgrades’?

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Lee B Newell
Lee B Newell

Written by Lee B Newell

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