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New Unity Apple Watch band, upcoming iOS features, Apple AI focus

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance review the 2025 Apple Unity watch band, watch face and wallpaper. They talk about some compelling leaked iOS features currently in internal testing, and Apple reportedly redoubles its AI efforts. Also, T-Mobile and Starlink launch a seemingly better satellite connectivity offering, than Apple’s in-built SOS feature.

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Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

So it is almost February, which means it is almost Black History Month. And in line with that, Apple has unveiled its 2025 Black Unity collection. So that's wallpapers for the iPhone and iPad, a watch face for the Apple Watch and a watch band for the Apple Watch. This year, it's the Sport Loop that's gotten the Black Unity treatment with a what apple calls a unity rhythm sport

0:23.4

loop woven in a pattern of raised and recessed loops to create a lenticular effect where it's

0:29.6

green on one side of each loop and red on the other then apple says when the band is worn the

0:34.4

colors appear dynamic shifting from green to red as you move your

0:37.6

wrist around. And they say, the color yellow appears in the transition as if by magic.

0:44.9

It's a magic Apple Watch band. But honestly, it does look pretty good, I think. It's the best

0:50.8

Black Unity Apple Watch band, I would say, since, what was the solo,

0:56.8

braided solo loop year?

0:58.2

You know where they had like the speckles?

1:00.3

Uh-huh.

1:01.0

The speckles of color.

1:01.9

I really liked that one.

1:02.8

And I think this is probably the best one since then.

1:05.5

Yeah, because they had like the rainbow one, but obviously it was different colours, right? And then they did the thing where it's like,

1:11.1

everyone's unique because it overlaps in, you know,

1:13.9

they've merged the porruthane together to make this unique other band

1:19.1

and every single one, which they did on the pride bands as well.

1:23.5

This one's probably the more,

1:26.4

less, like, less out there design they've done, right?

1:30.9

Because it's just like stripes.

1:33.0

Yeah.

1:33.5

But yeah, I think it looks pretty good on the watch band at least.

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