Apple Watch Series 8 review: Unchangingly excellent

This is the Apple watch Ultra that I've been wearing for the past month or so I've been using it every single day and wanted to share the overall experience durability and more and this is the first Apple watch that I've actually wanted to wear and I typically like the Apple watch I 

upgraded from a series 7 but normally I'm just not much of a watch person so this one I actually like I think it fits my style and just fits me better because I'm so big as far as my hands and my wrists so because of that I think it just fits me personally a little bit better and so this particular device like I said I've been using for a month and I'm a normal user I'm not really someone that's going out doing extreme sports 

working out constantly using Triathlon settings in here and all those sorts of things I'm.just using this as a watch a media player and for a few other things and so design and size wise like I said I think.it fits really well prior to this I was using a series 7 with the size 10 band and it looks okay but on my wrist I actually feel this is 

a little bit small because my wrists are so big and my hands are so big so if I bring this in here typically on this Ocean band you'll.see I use the second or first rung so.when I'm using this.it actually feels like it fits properly it doesn't feel too thick to me even.though it's pretty large it just feels like an average sized watch or a normal size watch that fits me proportionally 

well if I bring in my 14 pro Max you'll.see here that yes it's pretty large but in my hands it actually looks like a normal size phone so because of that it just seems proportionate to me a little bit better and I actually think this

looks a lot better in person than it does on video or in photos I've had someone talk to me about that they were a little bit disappointed that it was sort of shiny metal but it's actually

more of a matte finish than it is a gloss finish so you can see it's matte titanium and I really like it many.people wanted to have it in sort of a

black finish but I think this looks great is sort of bare titanium as far as.the overall look maybe they'll change this in the future but I do like the overall design the thickness of it the way they've 

got the crown guard here the button the action button and of course the speaker and sensors so all of that combined if I was to change anything it might be this back plate here it just doesn't seem to match color wise but you would like this maybe to just be black overall but either way it doesn't really matter as it's not something 

you're looking at constantly as far as the weight initially I thought it was a bit heavy but because I'm using this Ocean band with it it doesn't feel too different than using this regular Watch series 7 in stainless steel with a stainless steel band on it so I sometimes would use it with the Nomad.Titanium or stainless steel bands and

because this is so heavy they come out.lighter 

with that band on it so I really don't notice the weight and the extra bands such as this one or the other band that I have here the woven nylon this makes it feel nice and light it's not something that I even notice it is not a light watch but I got used to it very very fast so I don't really feel it on my wrist anymore as far as the watch bands I do like this ocean watch band I

had one of the others ordered originally.one of the velcro bands but that's still haven't tried that one I have tried the Trail Loop and that one works pretty well but I do like that it works with

all of these bands without a problem and it actually looks a little bit better than I would have 

expected with these other bands so you can use it with whatever band you'd like if you're coming from the 45 millimeter it fits no problem you'll see it fits works fine sometimes I use this band and you can dress it up it will look a little bit Goofy with a gloss stainless steel but you 

could get the matte finish as well and you'll see here if I put this on it fits as well so it actually looks a lot better than you'd think with some of

these glossy bands and this gives you an idea of what it looks like here so if I was to use the stainless steel band now it's extremely heavy I can feel that weight but in general I think it just

looks much better in person than it does when you see it in any of the photos or videos so let me swap these back so pretty much any watch band that fits the Larger Apple watches will fit the ultra without any problem it just may be a

matter of taste at that point as far as durability I 

really don't worry about that at all because well this is titanium so it's pretty strong just in general and then of course this is sapphire which I've found in the past doesn't really scratch I've banged it into concrete into bricks on this watch here you can see the series seven and there's no scratches you could scratch it 

with a diamond and while some have tested it to be lower grade Sapphire either way it seems to hold up just fine the glass I've had scratches on the sapphire I have not it's also got a

little protection around the outside edge you've got a little lip here if I bring this in close you can see the lip where it sort of protects that screen 

just a little bit which is really nice and then of course being titanium it's Just super strong and a very durable metal so I really see no issues as far as durability even if you drop it on the

floor maybe some of the ceramic Parts on the back here would crack the ceramic case on the  

back would crack if you hit the right material but in general I wouldn't expect you to break the this

very easily now the display on this is really great not only is it larger 49 millimeters but it's also flat so that's something I really like it just looks

better in my opinion it's flat of course you've got the different watch faces available and it's super bright in fact.