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The Ultra 2 also has better GPS and microphone.

I had assumed that it also had a significantly larger display, which would have been compelling for me since I'm getting old enough to where things I could read without my glasses a few years ago on my Series 4 are now too small. Based on 49mm vs 44mm and assuming display area goes as the square of watch size the Ultra 2 should have a display 24% larger than that of my Series 4.

But two things can invalidate that square of the size assumption. First, the aspect ratio of the cases is not the same, and second, the percent of the case area occupied by the screen is not necessarily the same.

On the watch comparison page Apple gives the actual display area and it that tells an interesting story:

    Watch    Size   Display   Pixels  Δ Display  Δ Size^2
  ---------  ----  ---------  ------  ---------  --------
  Series 4   44mm   977 mm^2  164864      -         -
  Series 9   45mm  1143 mm^2  191644    17.0 %     4.6 %
  Series 10  46mm  1220 mm^2  206336     6.7 %     4.5 %
  Ultra 2    49mm  1185 mm^2  205820    -2.3 %    13.5 %
(The SE 2 has the same case and display specs as the Series 4).

The "Δ Display" column is how much bigger the display area is than that of the watch from the prior row. The "Δ Size^2" is how much bigger we'd expect the display to be just based on the square of watch size.

Based on this it appears that if I want the largest display then the Series 10 is the way to go.



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