You don’t need to be an athlete or an extreme adventurer to appreciate the benefits of the Apple Watch Ultra and its dual-frequency GPS. All you have to do is mow the lawn, an adventurous activity if ever there was one: tracking is indeed much more precise with the new watch, as this user of Reddit.
This well-mowed lawn lover has a habit of launching a walking exercise on his Apple Watch each time he embarks on this hectic activity. As we can see in the screenshot on the left, the GPS of its Series 4 literally loses the ball, it even adds a generous 2.25 km to the exercise. In the screenshot on the right, the reading of the Apple Watch Ultra is infinitely more realistic.
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This is also the observation we made in our test of the Apple Watch Ultra. By combining the L1+L5 frequencies, the GPS proves to be much better, in particular in very dense urban environments. And with a clipper in hand, therefore.
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