Regardless of its considerably superior age, the decidedly high-end Apple Watch Sequence 8 stays undoubtedly one of many general finest smartwatches cash should purchase. In lots of vital methods, this 2022-released mannequin is comparable or outright equivalent to 2023’s Apple Watch Sequence 9, and in a single key division, the older machine truly has the higher hand on its successor.
We’re clearly speaking about pricing, which has been lowered for the Sequence 8 quite a lot of instances at numerous main US retailers on the heels of the Sequence 9’s launch a couple of months in the past. With Christmas across the nook, that is as soon as once more the case at Walmart, the place you should buy this oldie however goodie in trade for as little as $249 proper now.
That is for an entry-level GPS-only mannequin with a small 41mm case in a bunch of various colours, thoughts you, whereas a big 45mm unit with standalone 4G LTE connectivity, as an example, will be had at $349 after a really cool $180 markdown from a $529 record value.
The non-cellular-enabled 41 and 45mm variants are each discounted by a barely humbler however nonetheless fairly vital 150 bucks from their common costs of $399 and $429 respectively, and final however not least, a small Apple Watch Sequence 8 able to making and receiving voice calls by itself is at present down from $499 to $329.
Though they don’t seem to be fully unprecedented and they may not stay unbeaten for lengthy, these scorching new last-minute vacation reductions definitely make the Sequence 8 a really attention-grabbing product to contemplate for a Christmas present, in addition to fairly probably the very best finances smartwatch an Apple fan should purchase on the time of this writing.
Overlook concerning the Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch SE 2, as this unhealthy boy delivers unmatched worth on your cash with a super-high-quality Retina show, life-saving ECG know-how, blood oxygen monitoring, fall detection, crash detection, a particularly sturdy (and pretty elegant) design, and… not-too-bad battery life.
