Series 2 Unlimited

The latest iteration of the apple watch brings built-in gps, water resistance and a whole bunch of other features to make it the best smartwatch out there.

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The original Apple Watch was a superb piece of kit that was named Gadget Of The Year at the 2015 T3 Awards. But it was also a first-generation device in many ways. It required daily charging. It wasn’t waterproof. It didn’t have GPS.

Enter the Apple Watch Series 2. Crucially, the latest iteration fixes two of the original flaws straightaway, with 50m water resistance and GPS, so you can run without your iPhone. If you’re going to be immersing it in water regularly, we’d recommend the Sport band (there’s no new Sport Edition as such). The Nylon bands are fine in water (we’ve dunked ours dozens of times now), but we think they’d probably wear after prolonged washing and drying.

Apple has had a bunch of people working in a special sports lab in an effort to make the Series 2 a proper sports watch, and there’s now a swim tracker for both indoor (tell it how long your pool is) and open-water swimming. This is paired with a clever mode that disables the touchscreen (which would otherwise flicker in water because of the conductivity of H20).