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Apple Employees 'Set Low Expectations' For iWatch Battery Life

rGiskard said:
Yes, for many people, a watch is an "accessory," in other words a fashion/status piece of jewelry that happens to tell time. Usually women are into "accessories," but I guess "metrosexual" men could dig 'em too.

For many others, a watch is a tool, but it must have style as well. Insanely cool design is necessary but not sufficient.

The third group is pure function, and wears ugly monstrosities on their wrists because it's practical. Usually for work or hobbies.

I hope Apple combines the last two categories into one. They are capable, but I worry that Ive will impose severe functional restrictions in a quest for thin.
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Just gotta have some taste. I wasn't talking about rolexes covered by diamonds, you know. A watch must be 1) RELIABLE 2) look nice
Also, it will be VERY difficult to adapt to a watch that is needed to be charged every day. People expect they watches to work for years, not hours. BUT, we still take it off at night and put it on table/whatever. I'm 100% sure apple is aware and they must realise they MUST include wireless charging. So we can just put it on the table (like always) and have it charged when we wake up. Inserting a cable in it every night would be a major pain in the butt
 
Deadman64 said:
The only issue I'm thinking of with this that it's supposed to monitor our sleep right? So if it's charging every night how is that going to work?
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The same way you can charge and play music or play a game at the same time. Monitoring is a rather low energy task, possibly the M7 chip or something similar would be doing it.
 
NewbieCanada said:
A lightning port is a HUGE amount of space on a watch - plus you need a way to seal it when not in use so it's watertight. And that little hinged or sliding cover would wear out long before the watch would.

I've owned a couple of Garmin GPS watches and they've used a charger that attaches magnetically to the back and plugs into a USB port or charger.

It seems from other stories the charging will likely be wireless, so lightning seems very unlikely.
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Wireless charging would be great, but from the mock up's that are being done a lightning port one one of the ends looks like it would fit. I may be wrong, but I'm expecting it to be larger than a typical watch. A small adapter for a lightning connector is another idea.
 
gotluck said:
You have to break eye contact so...

You checking it with peripheral vision? Gimme a break.. Can't do that standing up.

I need to check the time as often as I need to check my phone for notifications
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I won't give you a break. If i absolutely need to check time - i will do it breaking the eye contact. It's not like when i'm talking to people it's a staring contest. If I wanna check it just because, i will find a way so that nobody will notice i checked it.

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Toltepeceno said:
Wireless charging would be great, but from the mock up's that are being done a lightning port one one of the ends looks like it would fit. I may be wrong, but I'm expecting it to be larger than a typical watch.
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It could be large, but if it's larger than a G-Shock - it's a fail and lose-lose.
 
Anything more than 1 day means that the iWatch has Limited Functionality. Be real, battery life is not what everyone wants and should be better and probably will down the road
 
brendu said:
Unless they have perfected true wireless charging whereby your watch would charge whenever within 3meters of a base station. You could have one near your bed and have the device charge while wearing it at night.
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True but I suspect that we're not there yet
 
DShap5 said:
Interesting... I know this sounds rather paranoid, but would it be detrimental in some way sitting at a desk with pure energy being sent through the air?
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As long as it isn't ionising radiation you are all good. i.e. Gamma rays, X-rays, the high-end of UV etc.

Unless Apple have hired Bruce Banner as an engineer, I doubt they will be charging your i-devices with Gamma rays. :cool:
 
deviant said:
I won't give you a break. If i absolutely need to check time - i will do it breaking the eye contact. It's not like when i'm talking to people it's a staring contest. If I wanna check it just because, i will find a way so that nobody will notice i checked it.

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It could be large, but if it's larger than a G-Shock - it's a fail and lose-lose.
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Yea people notice..
 
As long as it lasts a good day I'm fine. I don't mind charging every night. It's not like I'm wearing it to bed anyway.
 
gotluck said:
Yea people notice..
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yea don't wear a watch so people won't see you checking it. infallible logic goddamnit. but take your iPhone out of your pocket, unlock it and put it back. that sounds so convenient.
 
brendu said:
Unless they have perfected true wireless charging whereby your watch would charge whenever within 3meters of a base station. You could have one near your bed and have the device charge while wearing it at night.
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When we finally perfect solar supplementation of mobile device power, will be when the next major jump in battery life occurs.

Maybe the iWatch will be the first one with solar receptors under the display? Continuously recharging the battery as long as a enough solar energy is being received.

Eventually iPhones and iPads as well....devices that could, conceivably, never need physical charging. I imagine at first it will just double or triple battery life....but even that would be AMAZING.
 
gotluck said:
All you do is press home button

They are both socially frowned upon
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it's still "take it out>press button>lock it". I just flip my wrist. I don't give a damn if somebody thinks it's not nice. If i HAVE to check time because i GOTTA go, i will do it. And they will understand it. Cause i don't talk to people who think they are the most important biological entity the universe has ever produced.
 
coasterswim said:
To me, 1+ days of battery is fine. I charge my phone every night, I can charge a watch, too. It's when it goes less than a day that it becomes a problem.
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With all do respect, for every company that's stating a device last one day you'll need to espect less then a day battery life. So if Apple is stating that the device last for example two days then one day is probably do-able...

But not for me. If this is the case then Apple didn't succeed in pulling this off since other tech companies suffer with the same issues, battery life.

A watch should be something that doesn't cause stress. The need to constantly charging the given device on daily basis is for me a huge turn off -if it's all true-. If that is the case I'll wait for the next generations or perhaps skip a generation of two. :apple:

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unplugme71 said:
I'd like 2-3 days of battery life. That way, after 2 years, the battery should still last a full 24 hours.
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spot on remark.
 
Misleading headline...again

It seems that in the new journalism of the Internet you can make any sort of (ridiculous/exaggerated/totally false) claim in a headline without ever substantiating or verifying it with, you know...facts. This article doesn't provide a quote from any Apple employees or even Jessica Lessin saying that Apple expects battery life to be a problem. Hardly. All that was said was that originally--several months ago--they were working on increasing battery life past 2-3 days. Chances are they've done it, so battery life is no longer the problem it was in March. Therefore, the premise of this article is crapola.
 
JonneyGee said:
Rumors may be picking up, but good mockups aren't. It seems as though MR's strategy is to rotate through each of the 3 awful mockups someone made with each post. *gag*
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Out of curiosity, how would you do it differently if you were an editor? No image at all? Commission someone to create additional ones to cycle through? If so... how many is enough... 5... 7...?
 
Expectation-setting by Apple PR.

Battery life will be better than whatever the PR machine says. That's how this works. Under promise, over deliver.
 
lobbyist said:
Can't wait to read the comments from those who just today bashed the Moto360 battery life in the previous post lol
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And I can't wait to read all the people who dare to defend whatever predicted battery life is getting bashed for flipping (being critical of competitor but then saying its okay for Apple)... despite those people not even being the same ones that bashed the Moto360.
 
This video demonstrates what's possible with wireless electricity.

http://youtu.be/XRQ_kJtNB4Q

:D

I'm sensing Apple may have taken this idea and run with it. In a similar way to what they did with the invention of multi-touch (I remember watching the TED video) that led to the iPhone/iPad.
 
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