You just failed trying to be funny.
He meant the increase of mAh on an iPhone in general or the 35%.
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42mm Apple Watch 2 May Have 35% Larger Battery
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You just failed trying to be funny.
He meant the increase of mAh on an iPhone in general or the 35%.
I just retired mine and went back to my old faithful Seamaster. I think smart watches in their present state are little more than a technological curiosity.
meh I don't want a $30 a month plan for my watch unless the watch was good enough that I could ditch my phone all together
I haven't found any difference with watchOS 3. I guess it's subjective. I often have my arms crossed and want to look down and see the time. This usually only involves twisting my wrist a little bit, which isn't enough for the OS to pick up the movement. I then have to tap or shake it, which can be awkward when the fact that you are looking at the time may be considered rude!
Can someone explain or list real, everyday use cases for cellular on a smartwatch?
I really don't see them. You already have audio/phone capabilities in known Wifi zones at home etc. with the current Apple Watch version.
On the other hand, there are many drawbacks with cellular support on a smartwatch:
- Another data plan in most countries ( expensive, would kill mass-market appeal)
- Little to no screen space on Watch (that's why most native AW apps failed in the first place, there's not so much use for streaming/accessong lots of data)
- Poor battery life, bulky design
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I kind of agree but having notifications and ApplePay on your wrist is handy so I'm willing to be patient with my AW a bit longer. My hope is Apple has hired a watch case design team and will start to release watches that are actually stylish rather than geek bricks. If we are talking style points, your Seamaster crushes AW.
I'm quite looking forward to this, id say overall the Apple Watch has been my most favourite non Mac Apple device for a fair few years. I certainly prefer it to both iPad Pro's i've got - if you had to take one of the three away id give up those straight away.
Will be quite a good month if I can buy a new Apple Watch and iPhone 7 together - both running new software i've not yet tried. I'm kind of excited for faster charging on the iPhone alone - new car charger and home charger and i'll be able to zap it up in capacity really easily and quickly.
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It's truly fantastic - I just wish the big Supermarkets in the UK would move to all contactless terminals (or at least on self checkout) - but they over pay for their checkout terminals and aren't willing to upgrade them yet. I can go to all the tiny small local shops and pay contactless but not the supermarket.
...then we've got the local Starbucks here, which doesn't have either contactless or take AMEX and two out of the last five times going didn't take card at all and I had to go to the local cash machine haha.
Will be quite a good month if I can buy a new Apple Watch and iPhone 7 together - both running new software i've not yet tried. I'm kind of excited for faster charging on the iPhone alone - new car charger and home charger and i'll be able to zap it up in capacity really easily and quickly.
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It's truly fantastic - I just wish the big Supermarkets in the UK would move to all contactless terminals (or at least on self checkout) - but they over pay for their checkout terminals and aren't willing to upgrade them yet. I can go to all the tiny small local shops and pay contactless but not the supermarket.
...then we've got the local Starbucks here, which doesn't have either contactless or take AMEX and two out of the last five times going didn't take card at all and I had to go to the local cash machine haha.
We are lucky in Australia (except for Melbourne for some reason?), you'd be hard pressed to go anywhere, even the tiniest coffee shop or market stall, where they don't have a paywave terminal.
you can't speak for every dude on the planet so don't do everyone. because you will never speak for me
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Yes, you think that many people are not wearing it while sleeping...so don't so many cus you can't even prove this either. so something more like, I can GUESS without any evidence that people may not wear during sleeping. This is more believable.
BS. I work out for 1-2 hours (type set to Other) and when I hit he sack that night I have 30-40% left. I have never, ever ran out of juice.
as long as the AW is an accessory to the phone, I don't see why it needs battery life longer than the phone. I charge my phone every night at bed. watch too.
My 'evidence' is that all but one of the couple of dozens of Apple Watch users I heard speaking about this, said they do charge their watch overnight. That sample might be biased but I cannot think of a reason why it would be biased towards 'night-charging-people'. Thus, for lack of better data, my working theory is that the overwhelming majority of Apple Watch user do not wear it while sleeping.
Agreed. It's a painless habit to charge both devices every night. If the AW battery lasted 3-4 days I bet more people would forget to charge it.
The only inconviences are business trips or holidays. There's always a Lightning cable somewhere you can borrow/use but not so many AW chargers (maybe that's changing in a few years).
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Totally agree with you on this one. And, I also am not keen to have a big battery strapped to my wrist seeing as how they have been known to explode.
That is cool - I'm tempted to move to Australia one day. If they'd let me in on the points system!
Yes all in theory. And yes my friends 10 of 12 say they all say pigs can fly. No proof in my and no proof in yours. He and she say. All theory
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I own about a dozen nice watches, all above $20,000 and above each. Each one when I wear them, I tend never to take them off unless I want to change to a different one to match my decor. Hence the reason this worthless watch will decrease in value every day. Can you resell this same gen 1 watch 5 years like for 1,000% of its current value? In 5 years you probably won't even get half the money back. Sheeps will follow other sheeps I guess. Hahaha
With GPS I might actually consider upgrading, especially if general speed is improved and if battery still stays similar (2 days if you stretch it.)
The one thing that would stop me is if they changed the band connector, at that point I am done with AW.
The one thing that would stop me is if they changed the band connector, at that point I am done with AW.
If this is to offset the addition of GPS, that's great, but I'd imagine GPS would only be used when specifically making use of it, right? If someone didn't use GPS to track their runs, they'd effectively just get the 35% boost?
As a light user, I'd imagine a 35% boost combined with more efficient components would result in a pretty large longevity boost. That being said, faster components might cause me to use it a little more thoroughly
As a light user, I'd imagine a 35% boost combined with more efficient components would result in a pretty large longevity boost. That being said, faster components might cause me to use it a little more thoroughly
You're asking people to change their habits. Period. They either see the benefits from the technology worth making those changes, or they don't. I find the watch very useful for the things I use it for, but I'm not about to change my habits to accomodate it where it falls short for my use case. I couldn't care less what other people do.
Again, advocating changing someone's habits to accomodate the technology.
I take this exact position on Bluetooth wireless headphones -- it's painless to charge my headphones once a day for the benefit of listening to music without wires, rather than plugging and unplugging, wrapping and untangling wires a dozen times a day. But there are some who reject this on the face of it. And I get that. I'm not going to try to convince someone who doesn't want to have to charge their headphones, that plugging their headphones in overnight, along with their phone and watch, is simpler than their wire management rituals repeated throughout the day.
The reality is, it's not the requirement of charging overnight that I object to adjusting to, it's your last point -- what happens if I forget? And that's really the bottom line for most. If you forget for whatever reason, what kind of protection is afforded the user? Right now, it's none, with finding a charger out and about being on the high side of difficult at the moment. In fact I'd have an easier time finding a USB-C cable at the moment, and that's no easy task either ...
I like it! Although I'm guessing that would take more power than an always on display.
If having an always on OLED display would take too much power then maybe they could include an e-ink screen under a transparent OLED screen? That would only require power when changing, so a display showing hours and minutes would probably be very battery friendly.