Apple Watch Series 7: The watch hides a secret module

The Apple Watch Series 7 was announced last week with its larger screen, increased autonomy and best sealing.It does not offer new health -related features, but it introduces new sporting modes.Apple, however, did not reveal all the new features of its connected watch.Indeed, our colleagues from Macrumors discovered a particularly interesting deposit of Apple with the FCC.

According to the official document, Apple has equipped Watch Series 7 with a wireless data transfer module at 60.5 GHz.This is the very first time that such a module has been discovered in an Apple product.According to the document, it operates with a "proprietary wireless care station".But then, why not have presented this data transfer module and this reception station?

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The Apple Watch Series 7 wireless data transfer module would replace the diagnostic port

If you did not know it yet, all Apple Watch are equipped with what is called a "diagnostic port".It is hidden behind a cache inside one of the two ties of the bracelet.This port cannot be used by users themselves, but by Apple technicians.They can repair connected watches and access data to save them.

It would therefore seem that the new wireless data transfer module serves to replace the Apple Watch diagnostic port.Indeed, there would be no need to dismantle the bracelet to access the console data.The intervention would therefore be faster to do for technicians.According to Apple's description, the reception station is based on a magnetic system to "lock the Apple Watch in place on the top".In addition, the reception station would be supplied by a USB-C port, but we have no additional details.

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According to MacRumors, "we do not know how fast the wireless data transfer of the Apple Watch would be, but we estimate that USB 2.0 speeds up to 480 Mbps could be possible".With this wireless data transfer module, Apple could take one more step in the direction of a connected watch without ports as it plans to do with the iPhone soon.In any case, the Apple Watch Series 7 will soon be available from $ 399.

Source: 9TO5MAC