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Apple Aiming for 19 Hours of Apple Watch Battery Life With 'Mixed Usage'
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Why? What is the rationale for four days? Do you regularly do three days and 23 hour trips with no access to charging facilities? Over that four days do you expect your laptop not to require charging? I assume you aren't using an iPhone then as well as that wont last four days without charging.
I find it laughable that after so many people commented that they didn't wear a watch now due to smart phones but now it is mission critical that they don't have to charge a watch.
Sat at my desk there are four devices that can show me the time at any moment. I think I can survive charging my watch at night. Oh and I don't need to charge two/three devices overnight. I have a charger at my desk and one in the car - by the time I am at work my phone is up to 85% from 45%, the iPad can sit on charge all day if needed.
Talking about the horror of ANOTHER GODAMN CABLE TO CARRY - again when I travel I have a Grid-it that all cables and stuff are attached to. One extra cable wont matter - given I have two iPhone cables (for redundancy if one breaks or is lost) spare headphones, headphone cables, usb drives - all taking up the space of an A4 notepad.
Right, because a soldier out in the field is going to be using an apple watch with their apple phone...because lord knows they need to be tracking their fitness as they kill terrorists out in the middle east
A soldier will be up more then 19 hours on training missions as well as actual combat. Besides I was just being a smarty pants when posting the post.
Am I missing something here? If part of what the device can do is track sleep, how are you supposed to charge it overnight if it's on your wrist?
Or maybe it can't track sleep... too many damned trackers these days.
Or maybe it can't track sleep... too many damned trackers these days.
If I could dismiss notifications from the notification centre with a pebble, I'd be all set! If they could just make it a little less square (it's a bit too masculine looking for my tiny wrist), I think I might jump on a steel anyway.
Folks here will just tell you to conserve battery by no longer using your watch to check the time. Or increase the pace of your glances. Or ask your colleague on the train to check his Cartier.
According to 9to5Mac it has similar processing power to the A5, which Apple released in 2011. By contrast the Galaxy Gear used a processor with similar specs to the processors used in 2008. I think the bigger issue is that since the device is smaller than Samsung or Android Wear watches, it doesn't have as much room for a battery.
I still plan to get one, though until it can last 2-3 days of active use, I'm guessing its popularity will be more limited. Remember it took 2-3 versions before the iPod and even the iPhone really took off.
You do know that the
watch uses the same wire as an iPhone? You just plug the lightning cable into this small round thing and that't it.
Well people here seem to be focused on that so that's what I was responding to.
Ok 2.5 to 4 hours active application use. What exactly does this mean for me? I'm a postman who walks on average 12-15 miles per day over 5-6 hours. Does this mean my watch is being active monitoring me and will run out after approx 4 hours or is this passive usage?
Who needs an 19 hour battery life watch ? Mine get charged by light. Never need a battery. ッ
I am not an athlete it is the other things that I am looking for. Apple pay when it hits Oz for a start will be great on the Apple watch. Notifications when I am in a shopping centre - wife calls be and I can't hear over the noise but will feel the notification on my wrist. A quick look at my wrist when on my way to a meeting to check the meeting room. A notification on my wrist of an email whilst in a meeting - much more discreet than pulling out my phone. Getting a call when my phone is on my desk but I am sat at meeting table not next to it - if it is an important caller I might take the call. Again a slightly more subtle intrusion.
None of these are huge life changing things - but for $500 I don't expect my life to changed. I am looking a kickstarter project that is basically a glamourous universal remote. Do I need a single remote - No. Will it change my life - no! Will it remove some clutter from the lounge? Yes - and that is worth it.
I'm not going to convince you otherwise, but I thought that, until my Garmin watch got the ability for notifications, and I've found it very useful since. In particular when we as a family have gone to the shops, my phone is in my bag and my husband rings after he's wandered off in John Lewis yet again. I'm usually holding my youngest's hand and glancing at my wrist whilst she's still holding it means I can then say to her Daddy's ringing and fish the phone out. As he has his phone on silent most of the tim, ringing him back is pointless
I would imagine there are plenty of women like me who have their phones on vibrate (for work) and in their bags who would miss phones calls. The one that I couldn't miss is the school phoning if one of my children is ill.
A lot of the capabilities of the watch are lost on me. Interestingly I never felt like this when I got hold of my first "capable" phone, the Nokia N80 - that felt an easy and natural step forwards. Perhaps I am getting old for this nonsense as well....
people are disappointed that after 4-5 years you can now wear an iPad 2 on your wrist - but you have to charge it OVER NIGHT??!?
i do believe those thinking this isn't enough juice have vastly overestimated how much they'll be using it. oh no, you're stuck in a situation where you can't charge it til tomorrow?! how is this different than your phone a couple years ago? sure, day and half or two now, but people - when a company offers a new entry to the industry, the first gen is always underpowered. i'm guessing most of you complaining never worked in any type of tech/design development teams. you get about 75% of what you're aiming for. then comes the Q&A.
i do believe those thinking this isn't enough juice have vastly overestimated how much they'll be using it. oh no, you're stuck in a situation where you can't charge it til tomorrow?! how is this different than your phone a couple years ago? sure, day and half or two now, but people - when a company offers a new entry to the industry, the first gen is always underpowered. i'm guessing most of you complaining never worked in any type of tech/design development teams. you get about 75% of what you're aiming for. then comes the Q&A.
Gaming....please! Your going for an extreme to justify poor performace.
4 hours of STRAIGHT excessive use is crap. You make it sound like people will use it now and than. There are lots of heavy users that will get lots of constant alerts, these users will fall into the category closer got the 3 hour mark.
Though back to my point, 4 hours max for fitness tracking is a joke! This thing is made for the geeks that attend a gym, not people who are into adventure sports or anything related to endurance such as cycling, or even a two hour walk etc.
Now back to the geeks who visit the gym, imagine someone really into their fitness, goes to the gym in the morning for 2 hours, that's 50% of their battery gone before they start their working day. That is not acceptable. Even if they go at the end of the day, it will die in the gym. So back to having to charge it multiple times a day. And when apple say 19 hours, you believe that is what you will get??
And how about this: Based upon the numbers Apple states for its other devices, the watch will have a number of recharge cycles that can be measured in the 100s. In other words, a few (2-3?) years at best. Compare that to a regular quartz watch. And it is not difficult to estimate what an Apple store will charge you for a battery replacement (iPod Nano: $59, iPhone: $79, ...)
I'm thrilled with one day battery life. More often than not the screen will be on standby, and I will love to use this as a way to feel notifications. I will also love being able to go on a run with just the watch and still have the workout tracked on it and my phone. I'm most especially looking forward to being able to just charge it overnight with my iPhone and not having to worry about charing it mid-day. I think this battery life is perfect, anything more is just an even greater bonus