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Apple Watch Series 3 Teardown

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The plucking continues, as we remove the self-emptying speaker, designed to sonically blast out water after your watch takes a dip.

After an entirely Series 2-ish experience, we're finally rewarded with something new—a whole new section of RF chips, surely responsible for handling the added LTE functionality.

In another new twist, the air vent hole next to the microphone is now populated by what looks like a barometric pressure sensor.

Apple touted a new barometric altimeter when it introduced the Series 3 at the Steve Jobs Theater—much to our confusion, since we already found a barometer in last year's model.

Time to pull this board!

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