Apple is developing an even larger third size option for the Apple Watch Series 8

(Pocket-lint) - According to reputable show expert Ross Young, Apple is readying connected processing a 3rd Apple Watch exemplary adjacent larger than its existent 45mm offering, perchance marking the archetypal clip the institution volition connection much than 2 size options for its ever-popular wearable. 

Notably, Apple has already somewhat accrued its maximum show size this twelvemonth with the merchandise of the Apple Watch Series 7, bumping up the lawsuit size options from 40mm and 44mm to 41mm and 45mm, respectively. 

Alongside that, the institution added astir 20 per cent much surface existent property to some models by shrinking the bezels - oregon arsenic Apple calls them, borders - adjacent further. 

A 3rd size offering adjacent year, however, would astir apt beryllium successful the 47-49mm range, with a show astir the two-inch people considering the existent 45mm enactment features a 1.9-inch screen. 

Don't beryllium amazed if determination are 3 sizes adjacent year...

— Ross Young (@DSCCRoss) October 12, 2021

Pocket-lint reached retired to Young to clarify the sizing of adjacent year’s models, and helium confirmed the larger exemplary won’t diagnostic a drastic bump successful size, specifying for the Series 8, “we [expect] 1.72-inch, 1.92-inch and present ~2-inch.” 

He agreed that a 47-49mm lawsuit size “sounds astir right”, and each 3 displays will, of course, diagnostic LTPO exertion which Apple archetypal introduced connected the Series 5. 

At immoderate rate, an Apple Watch Series 8 is astatine slightest astir a twelvemonth oregon truthful away, truthful successful the meanwhile, you’ll person to instrumentality with the lone ever-so-slightly upgraded Series 7.  

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 12 October 2021.