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42mm Apple Watch 2 May Have 35% Larger Battery
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Hmm. I can't imagine Jony Ive saying, "yeah this product is thin enough...let's keep it as it is." Just doesn't seem to be his style! 
However, I suspect that in the interest of prioritization that they might keep the form factor the same this year and just make the battery larger; especially given that they're going to cram more sensors into it.
My wife and I are really excited about the prospect of Apple Watch 2; we'll definitely be getting it. I would usually have one already but I had other money priorities and although I'm usually the one to have a 1st gen device, it's sometimes better to wait for the product to mature a bit first.
However, I suspect that in the interest of prioritization that they might keep the form factor the same this year and just make the battery larger; especially given that they're going to cram more sensors into it. My wife and I are really excited about the prospect of Apple Watch 2; we'll definitely be getting it. I would usually have one already but I had other money priorities and although I'm usually the one to have a 1st gen device, it's sometimes better to wait for the product to mature a bit first.
So, make a product thinner, people complain. Include more battery, people also complain. There is just no pleasing some people...
Heck, your smartphone doesn't do all of that after 10 years and it doesn't even have biometric sensors. Is the modern smartphone not yet practical?
It looks like it's bust for you then. Highly doubtful LTE will be on Watch 2.
I'm happy with the current thinness, it's actually the smallest watch I own. I have no problem with the battery life, I think I have only ever run out of battery once, and I wear it every day. I'm not bothered by it being dependant on my iPhone, as I always have it with me, but I like that it stays in my pocket more now than before I got the watch. My only real complaint is the lag\lack of responsiveness from time to time, which from what I have heard is much better under watchOS 3.
Of course advancement is great, and I'm not denying that many other people use the watch differently, and have different needs and wants for a smartwatch. I'm just pretty satisfied with what the watch gives me now, and hopeful that OS 3 will make it even better.
For Apple to sell me another watch it will have to a) add some new functionality that I get excited about, and b) maintain compatibility with the bands I have (I am much less likely to buy a new model that I can't use my small range of existing bands with.)
Most likely I will skip the 2nd gen and see how the 3rd gen turns out.
Of course advancement is great, and I'm not denying that many other people use the watch differently, and have different needs and wants for a smartwatch. I'm just pretty satisfied with what the watch gives me now, and hopeful that OS 3 will make it even better.
For Apple to sell me another watch it will have to a) add some new functionality that I get excited about, and b) maintain compatibility with the bands I have (I am much less likely to buy a new model that I can't use my small range of existing bands with.)
Most likely I will skip the 2nd gen and see how the 3rd gen turns out.
But it matters enough for you to complain about it. As if it's that much of a huge inconvenience for you to have the Watch tethered to the iPhone.
Dude. I've been SWIMMING with my watch for over a year.
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Yes.
Highly unlikely. I've not heard of a single case where this has happened.
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So you're basically wanting an iPhone with a significantly smaller screen, with 7 times the size of the battery of the current Apple Watch, but smaller....?
Any decade now....
You already can. Only 2GB storage, but good enough for a run.
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Put some of that tinfoil from your hat between your arm and your wrist. Problem solved.
Or maybe read up on non-ionising radiation.
Or, you could read up on the latest research.
http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.full.pdf
Obviously your not a serious runner, because if you were, you would understand it has more to do than "Run the same loop around your neighborhood" comment.
It needs GPS and the ability to store at least one small playlist so that I can leave my phone home to go running and play the music through bluetooth headphones and leave the iPod shuffle at home. I have realized I only use my watch for 3 things - health/tracking but I need my phone still and it is not very accurate, text messages during a meeting so don't have to pull out phone, and occasionally answering my phone through it. If Garmin or someone builds a watch that does those things before apple I will switch. I don't need much, but I must have the GPS so can run without lugging around the phone and would be obvious to ditch the shuffle with a tiny bit of thought about local storage.
It could also be thinner.
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Hey - how do you transfer music to the watch? I had no idea - this is great news. EDIT: Thanks-found it! Great news.
It could also be thinner.
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Hey - how do you transfer music to the watch? I had no idea - this is great news. EDIT: Thanks-found it! Great news.
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You know they won't kill the Apple Watch. But then again, anyone who reads ANY of your previous Apple Watch posts, understands you cannot be taken seriously.
I will let you know how much I like the Apple Watch 2 when I receive my order for two of them on launch day.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
What is this crap? The Jony Ive I know would never opt for more battery life at the expense of thinness.
What is this crap? The Jony Ive I know would never opt for more battery life at the expense of thinness.
If you take from that paper that cell phone radiation causes cancer in males, you also have to take from that paper that cell phone radiation prevents cancer in females. Just look at page 13.
There is a reason they have separated the non-control categories into 12 different groups. That reason is so they can ignore the groups with below average cancer growth, and just point at the inevitable statistical outliers as "proof" CDMA/GSM causes cancer.
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You know Jony Ive? Sounds like your sarcasm meter is running low.
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Nah.Just notify me when the new watch bands come out
Another infamous unoriginal Watch Band comment to add to the Wasteland pile. Congrats.
Me too. I would like to see it thinned, secondly, a little faster. No gps or anything else needed, just these two.
I wear my watch while sleeping, usually for sleep tracking but also HomeKit items (can control from bed). Surprisingly useful (though the sleep tracking needs work. I recharge when eating, showering, in bathroom, playing with my cats-an hour a day, I suppose, is enough to make it always run.
Charging every other day sounds like a chore to me. "Wait, did I charge it last night...I don't remember. Lemme check the battery life to see if it needs it. Damn, It's at 50%, what do I do???" It seems a lot simpler to just charge it every night since you're going to take it off anyways, unless you're one of those weird people that wears their watch while they sleep...