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If you have not heard, Apple has actually revealed that the Apple Watch Series 9 will no longer have a working blood-oxygen sensing unit while its patent disagreement with Masimo works its method through the courts. Luckily, you can still get one and it’s on sale today: Amazon is offering the 41mm Apple Watch Series 9 for $329 and the 45mm design for $359a cost savings of $70 each and matching the most affordable rate we’ve seen.
The Apple Watch Series 9 has the exact same 41mm and 45mm screens as the Series 8 with 2 brand-new functions: an S9 chip that’s faster and smarter with a brand-new four-core Neural Engine, and the brand-new double-tap gesture that lets you manage apps without touching the screen. Otherwise, it’s got the exact same selection of sensing units– ECG, heart rate, temperature level, and the previously mentioned blood oxygen– along with all-day battery life, 50 meters of water resistance, Emergency SOS and Crash Detection.
Apple revealed a firmware modification that will disable the blood-oxygen sensing unit on brand-new Apple Watches starting January 18, so they may be difficult to discover in a couple of weeks. Get one at this all-time low rate while you still can.