What is Apple Watch Nike? And how is it different to the standard Apple Watch?

(Pocket-lint) - Each Apple Watch since the Series 2 has had a Nike version. The latest Series 7 Nike Edition is fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic the modular Apple Watch Series 7 but it features redesigned Nike ticker faces and Nike-designed Apple Watch Sport bands.

You tin besides get a Nike mentation of the Apple Watch SE (which is fundamentally the Apple Watch Series 5 successful a antithetic guise).

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What is Apple Watch Nike?

For the Apple Watch Series 2, Apple teamed up with Nike to marque a mentation of Apple Watch aimed astatine runners - a concern that has continued for models since the Series 2.

Apple Watch Nike features a antithetic strap plan and somewhat antithetic Watch Faces to the modular exemplary to marque it easier for runners to marque usage of the device's built-in GPS (and cellular).

Externally, the lone quality is there's a Nike logo successful summation to the Apple 1 connected the rear of the Watch. A caller Apple Watch Nike has been released with each mentation of Apple Watch pursuing the Series 2. 

The Apple Watch Nike costs the aforesaid arsenic the modular Apple Watch versions. 

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What does Apple Watch Nike feature?

In 2020, Apple revealed 2 antithetic versions of the Apple Watch Nike with some the Series 6 and SE (and past 40/44mm variants of each of those, each with GPS and cellular variants). In 2021, it past released a Apple Watch Nike mentation of the Series 7, which sits alongside the Apple Watch SE Nike variant.

You get each the aforesaid features recovered successful the Apple Watch Series 7 oregon SE, specified arsenic built-in GPS, a waterproof plan and the enactment of cellular connectivity successful summation to GPS, though it is cheaper to get the mentation without. The Series 7 has blood oxygen monitoring too, arsenic good arsenic a bigger show than the Watch SE. The Watch Series 7 Nike exemplary comes successful 41mm and 45mm options, portion the Watch SE Nike exemplary comes successful 40mm and 44mm options.

Like the modular Apple Watch, you tin alteration the straps connected the Nike variant. It's disposable with antithetic lawsuit and strap combinations: there's metallic and abstraction grey aluminium cases with Nike Sport Band (rubber) oregon Nike Sport Loop (nylon). The Nike Sport Bands person a perforated plan that's designed to beryllium much durable and breathable.

As for software, Nike has further perks implicit the standard mentation of watchOS: it gets exclusive Nike-themed ticker faces that see a complication for straight launching the Nike Run Club app, which comes pre-installed and lets you way your runs, presumption moving history, and more.

The 2021 Series 7 models have new colours for the Nike Sport Band and Nike Sport Loop. Both the Series 7 and SE Nike models instrumentality vantage of things similar the Nike Compact ticker look though, which enables you to spot aggregate Nike Run Club complications, too. 

You tin work our abstracted diagnostic to compare each the Apple Watch models. We besides person a usher for the best Apple Watch tips and tricks that is worthy checking out.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 14 October 2016.