Apple Watch Series 5 review: Redesigned last year, refreshed this year

Last year in September, Apple Watch fans were thrilled to see a complete redesign of what has become the world’s most popular smartwatch.

The Series 4’s display became bigger without increasing the overall size of the gadget, going edge-to-edge and even spilling over the sides like some phone displays do. The effect, when some of Apple’s live watch faces are used, was and is quite mesmerising.

It also had important hardware additions, like electrodes on the underneath of the watch’s disc, that allows it to record ECG, and the fall detection feature which alerts an emergency number if the user falls and doesn’t confirm that all is well.