Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested By a Hollywood Stunt Double By Wall Street Journal

Don't worry I'm good. This is just my professional stunt. Double Evelyn, oh sorry of Accra Evelyn, you are good yeah, I'm, good I hit the ground for a living. Hmm, that's right! Really! She's a professional stunt, devil she's appeared in things like Luke Cage orange is the new black and more so. Why is she in this Apple Watch Series for review? Well, because the new Apple Watch doesn't only look sleeker, it has new health and fitness features, including one that detects Falls. So here's the premise of this review, Evelyn and I- were training for a fight, okay, well, more Evelyn's training, and we're putting the new watches, fall.

Detection and fitness features through the paces turns out fake falling is really hard seriously. Please don't try this at home, so get close to the ground, bend those knees close to the ground, lift those arms use your body there you go, yes turns out that the Apple Watch really does know when you're just playing around nothing. That's because the improved gyroscope and accelerometer in the series four monitor for risk. Trajectory, speed and more Apple even showed this weird diagram. During its keynote of the three different types of falls, the watch can detect, and so here we are I had Evelyn, do a series of balls that followed some of the examples that Apple showed.

The first, we tried was during a fight with her training partner and competitive boxer, Michelle Herzl Evelyn, flung herself away and landed on her back okay moment of truth fall detected. It looks like you've taken a hard fall. Do we want to contact emergency services? I fell but I'm? Okay, what about a slip? Yep ball detected. What about a trip? It's all detected. What about a trip into a tumble? Weird no fall detected.

If you remain immobile for about a minute after your fall, it begins a 15-second countdown and sounds an alarm when the countdown ends it automatically contacts emergency services and sends a message to your emergency contact. If you've entered your age during setup, and you're 65 and over fall, detection is automatically on. Everyone else has to turn it on manually in the iPhone watch out. Okay time out, I realize these Falls are fun to watch even funny, but in real life. Following is no laughing matter and from these tests, if you're prone to falling the Apple Watch would be a good investment and that's not just for older chances are you aren't buying a series 4 which starts at $400 strictly for fall detection? It also features a new bigger screen, slimmer design and fitness features.

So we tested those two. What Evelyn and I went for a run. The watch automatically detected the workout, although this only works for certain workouts like running and walking. So all that time we spent punching bags and forgot to turn on the workout on the watch. A waist, in fact other than the new EKG feature on the series 4, which isn't yet available.

Most of the other new health and fitness features are available on older models with the watch. Os 5 software update, but you won't get the 30% bigger screen, which you'll appreciate if you're a stump body or just a homebody and the new speakers are louder which makes that new walkie-talkie feature much easier to hear, with new antennas on the front and back the cellular version, which costs $100 more seem to have stronger connectivity than the older series.3 and the battery life has been solid, lasting a day and a half. If you've held out for an Apple Watch, or you have the first or second generation. The series 4 is the one to get I guess you could say I finally well fallen for it.

Source : Wall Street Journal