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This article seems to hint that the iWatch's 'poor' battery life will be 1-2 days. Wouldn't that make it one of the best on the market, in terms of battery life?

To be honest, if you're setting your iWatch down every night on a wireless charging mat, it only needs to last about 16 hours.
 
I'll do you one better, theoretical Apple employees. I'll set NO expectations until I have some idea about what the thing does! Deal?

That's intelligence you're showing there. You think rumour sites and hypothetical employees can do this?
 
Why are we even looking at our watches.

Person: Siri, what is the time?
Watch Siri: 3:21am Sir.

Problem solved. . . but then it can't be called a watch as we don't watch it for the time. Maybe call it a "speak" as we would speak to it for the time/other information.
 
For the iPod and iPhone, I was not a believer. I eventually came around and have owned several of both. For the iPad, when I heard about it, I was one of the few people I know actually thinking it would sell well and be something I'd eventually want, precisely because I'd been so wrong twice before. That said, it still took me a while to actually want one; my first iPad was an iPad Air. It took until last year for Apple to finally make the thing thin enough, with a good enough screen and good enough battery life. But at no time did I doubt the earlier models would sell like crazy and create an entirely new market, even before it was officially announced.

Same deal with the iWatch. I don't yet know if I want one, though I suspect I eventually will (whether or not I can actually wear one without getting a skin rash remains to be seen, hopefully Apple makes smart material choices). I'm absolutely sure it will sell like crazy.

Other than my metal allergy which is my primary concern, I'm also very much a fan of analog watches. Even if I were to get a smart watch, I would require an overwhelming feature set for me to want to wear the thing every day. And when I dress up and go out, I would probably still prefer a nice analog watch as a fashion accessory. Apple has a tough road ahead convincing people like me to wear one. Will Apple utterly destroy the digital watch market, though, and make piles and piles of money? Sure they will. Lots of people who don't wear analog watches today will be very tempted by what Apple is going to offer.

We can no more judge the success of Apple's wearable sight unseen than we could the iPod, iPhone or iPad, sight unseen. The many erroneous predictions about the lack of usefulness of those other products (even before anything was known about them) doesn't seem to stop anyone from handicapping this one as an instant fail.

The guesswork about the Apple wearable is even more distorted than it was for those other products. The rumor media decided from the outset that it going to be a "watch" (again, before anything was known about it), for no apparent reason that I can see, also deciding it would be named the "iWatch" (and again, for no good or apparent reason). The discussion then naturally became mostly about the merits of various timepieces. Few asked the question "why would Apple want to sell a watch?"

I don't claim to know more than anyone else, except (apparently) that Apple won't have spent all this time, effort, and money investing in a product that is merely an improvement of existing products from Samsung, Pebble and Motorola. I am totally prepared to be surprised. The mystery to me is why so many others are not.
 
more likely than not
..we are going to see a fashion show on Tuesday with models strutting obout for the introduction of the wearables. Would that be the first Apple fashion show?
 
Evidently it is. I'm no designer, but clearly there are technical obstacles that prevented apple from having a longer life battery - otherwise they would have done it right?

Then they need to wait until they can figure out how to get a good battery life instead of putting sub par out. There are enough of poor battery smart watches as there are now.
 
But if you plan on charging them overnight, you'll either have to get up in the middle of the night to switch the charger from one to the other, or end up packing two chargers in any case?



It will be the amazing and revolutionary iPocketWatch. It'll change everything.

The iphone charges so fast I don't charge overnight.
 
I would be surprised if the iWatch had much of a screen at all. Just pack a wrist band full of health sensors, and feed it to my phone.
 
Hey, don't lump everyone into a single category by age. I'm under 30 and own and wear a number of nice analog watches. Some people have style, some don't. That's true of any age.

That's great! Generally, I feel what I said. Specifically of course (as in your case), there are exceptions. I feel you are of the minority.
 
My Pebble watch is advertised at 7 days on a charge. Reality for me is more like 5 days, which causes a problem with charging that after a day or two you (or at least I) forget about charging it. Even with it giving alarms at 20 and then 10% I will at times look at it to see the time and be faced with a blank screen.

I'm like some others here who have said that if it comes with wireless charging then the length of time on the charge is not all that important.

Another point will be how water resistant or waterproof it will be. If it comes with wireless charging it could be quite waterproof. My Pebble is very waterproof as its charging cable is a magnetic connection much like a Mac.
 
iPhone 6 as interim-Cloud to iWatch

Yes, it would seem that Apple will need to get the iWatch battery to use its own power only for its screen, it's operating system, basic mini-app function, skin sensors and bluetooth; ideally it will attempt to leverage the iPhone battery for any heavy lifting and other tasks in general. Would not be surprised if iWatch apps reside on the phone and the iWatch - besides biological skin monitoring functions - is mainly a remote for the phone.
Still a big ask for a battery that has to fit in such a small space.
 
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The Pebble runs for days, if not weeks. No doubt in my mind that nothing what has been suggested so far will come anywhere near that.

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The CPU is by large irrelevant in an application like this. The screen and radios are what kills the batteries. That's the main reason why the Pebble does so well with its eInk-display.

Its actually extremely relevant, how can you say such a absurd thing ? Everything goes on the die (processor, radio, etc) a 20nm SoC would mean extreme power efficiency and faster proceesors (race to sleep= better battery life, extreme voltage control at this level with incredible power gating.) Pebble does last a while, but Android Wear is more capable and the iWatch will be even more capable then Android Wear when it comes out.

iWatch tipped to have a OLED display, which imo is noticeably better then LCD for smartwatches . lets see how it all pans out. I think itll have a very solid 24-36 hr battery life, roughly 30-40% better then top Android Wear watch.

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It's the year 2014, why haven't we come up with innovative batteries that can outperform current ones.

Watch in the next 5 years as batteries and things related to batteries (capacity, charging methods, materials usrd and its ability to last) will dramatically take off.
 
It seems like every apple product ever released has had a 'horrible, short, nasty battery life' story.

:rolleyes:
 
more likely than not
..we are going to see a fashion show on Tuesday with models strutting obout for the introduction of the wearables. Would that be the first Apple fashion show?

Oh god I hope this doesn't happen. I'd like to see normal people wearing and using the watch and its features. If they do a runway-type fashion show it will be the biggest facepalm moment ever. Just thinking about it is turning my stomach.
 
Oh god I hope this doesn't happen. I'd like to see normal people wearing and using the watch and its features. If they do a runway-type fashion show it will be the biggest facepalm moment ever. Just thinking about it is turning my stomach.

Yeah I agree. Hope Apple doesn't plan to do this as a way to break out of Jobs' mold or something. It would be corny and dumb IMO.
 
Hope they have come up with an elegant charging solution....

My current watch battery has lasted some 7 years. Still going strong!
 
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