From "Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch With Larger Screen, Metal Case" posted Wednesday on the Bloomberg:
Apple plans its largest smartwatch display to date, a bigger battery and a rugged metal casing as part of the upcoming Apple Watch geared toward extreme sports athletes, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
The rugged version of the Apple Watch will get a screen that measures almost 2 inches diagonally, while a new, standard Apple Watch Series 8 will keep the 1.9-inch diagonal screen size of the current Apple Watch Series 7. A planned update to the low-end Apple Watch SE also will retain the current screen size.
The larger display on the extreme sports model, which is planned to be announced later this year with the other two models, will have about 7% more screen area than the largest current Apple Watch. The display will have a resolution of about 410 pixels by 502 pixels and retain the same overall sharpness as the existing models...
The extreme sports watch will use a strong metal material rather than aluminum, have a more shatter-resistant screen and include a larger battery compared with standard Apple Watches -- letting athletes track workouts for longer periods of time, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the watch details haven’t been announced... An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the company’s plans. Apple typically announces its new watch models in September alongside new iPhones.
My take: This may explain last week's weird "Hard Knocks" ad...
/s/ Ted Lasso