the design of the iphone NUMBER_TOKENs frame launched one year after the iphone NUMBER_TOKEN. therefore this flat frame apple watch would have made a lot of sense to be launched a year after the iphone NUMBER_TOKEN's major redesign which would have been this year but i also think that this theory has its own flaws too for example no company can fully design test and do all the marketing materials in a matter of weeks which is what this theory implies that the flat frame series NUMBER_TOKEN was cancelled not that long before the actual event also the series NUMBER_TOKEN does actually have a few case changes too including some new colors it doesn't just reuse the series NUMBER_TOKEN case but instead it is the first case change since the series NUMBER_TOKEN. that's not something that you can do and test in a few weeks so what's my actual take on this well my own theory is that that flat frame design was indeed real but it was only a prototype apple was just testing a different look for the apple watch which never saw the light of day maybe because it didn't look as good as the round models do or maybe because it did actually have some flaws and since apple had a second prototype which made changes to the existing case by making it bigger and increasing the display size i think wires got crossed and leakers thought that that's clearly the flat frame design that's coming at the end of the day they were told that the apple watch is getting a new design with a flat frame larger bodies and a larger screen and all of those actually happened aside from the flat frame so this two prototype theory is what i believe to be the most likely scenario and the delay that a series NUMBER_TOKEN is facing that could simply be due to the new display which is a custom panel made for the series NUMBER_TOKEN. now our apple watch uses that and of course the body changes which are small but like i said they're still there so this is what i believe happened but do let me know in the comments what do you guys think speaking of those body changes the new case sizes are now NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters and NUMBER_TOKEN up from NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN. now these are actually the exact same sizes that the leaks pointed at another reason why i believe the prototype theory to be the more credible one apple was testing two prototype models both with a one millimeter case increase for that larger display the metal case is now slightly more rounded in order to accommodate that new display which now beautifully curves over the body of the apple watch we also get three new colors there's a new green that i'm not really a big fan of but hey at least it's new uh then there's a new starlight which is the new warmer silver and then the new midnight which i absolutely love it's got this grayish dark blue color and i'm actually very tempted to get this uh with my own apple watch and not the stainless steel model like i usually do also the speaker grille is much larger now and it's a single one rather than the two that we had before and this does actually match up with the leaks however we don't yet know if this means that we're getting any improvements to the volume likely not otherwise apple would have said something personally i am quite happy that they stuck with this design as i've kept saying that a flat frame stainless steel apple watch especially would look less like a jewelry and more like a gadget strap to your wrist okay now if you have an apple watch or you're
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