An Apple Watch Series 5 makes a great graduation gift for just $300

Time seemed to have stood still in the last few months of the pandemic, but your children can tell you with the greatest certainty that they have spent a whole semester at home trying to distance themselves socially. It is now the final season and many schools across the country are pushing ahead with COVID-delayed graduation ceremonies – some virtual, others personal. In any case, it’s not too late to grab a gift for the graduate in your life. Watches are a classic graduation gift, and right now you are getting a good deal for the applest of all watches, the Apple Watch. Right now, Amazon has lowered the Apple Watch Series 5 back to its lowest price ever – $ 300. That’s $ 100 less than Amazon’s usual price and what you can get it for in Apple’s own store.

This deal applies to the 40mm aluminum case version of the 5 Series in Space Gray with a black sports band.

I know that opinions on this topic are very different, but I personally wouldn’t consider buying an Apple Watch model other than the Series 5. I owned a Series 1 – in short – five years ago before it died in a tragic skateboard accident. Frankly, I thank the sidewalk for relieving it of its misery. It was not a good watch. Since then, I’ve narrowed my time and waited for a model that was actually always on view, and Series 5 is the first model to do so. I’ve loved my Series 5 since I bought it at launch. Sure, that’s all that’s new. So if you already have a Series 4, there is no big incentive to upgrade. But when you buy a first Apple Watch for dad, everything is new to him, including GPS, compass app, heart rate and EKG monitor, fitness features, watch faces with complications, interactive notifications, and on-the-wrist Apple Pay.

And you don’t have to spend $ 300 to make a graduate smile. For just over half of that, Amazon has that Apple Watch Series 3 38mm on sale for $ 179That’s $ 20 less than the regular price.

If you’re not interested in fall detection or a constantly on display, the Series 3 is a very powerful smartwatch for iPhone owners and definitely a solid offering at this price.

Regardless of whether you choose the Apple Watch Series 5 or Series 3, the new purchase can be updated. We just learned that Apple WatchOS 7 will include a highly anticipated (and long overdue) sleep tracking feature, along with new fitness features and even the translation of languages ​​on the wrist. And these watches can be updated to WatchOS 7 later this year.

This article was previously published. It has been updated with the latest offer.

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