Apple Watch Battery could last just 3 hours

[lockerc18]

Not true. 7 hours as a WORKOUT tracker, which means the heart-rate monitor is in constant use.

Nobody is going to monitor their heart-rate for 7 continuous hours. You can easily monitor it in intervals. The watch lasts all day tracking steps, standing, heart-rate, etc.

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Yes, the rules say you can only charge your watch at night when you should be sleeping. It's impossible to charge it at any other time. That's what the rules say.

That's what APPLE says.

Charge it overnight.
Wear it all day.

You’ll want to use Apple Watch all day long. So we gave it a battery that lasts up to 18 hours and made charging it at the end of the day utterly effortless. In fact, our goal was to make Apple Watch easy to charge in the dark. Without looking. While being only partially awake. We arrived at a solution that combines our MagSafe technology with inductive charging. It’s a completely sealed system free of exposed contacts. And it’s very forgiving, requiring no precise alignment. You simply hold the connector near the back of the watch, where magnets cause it to snap into place automatically.

This is no more than "if you can't fix it, feature it". Obviously you can charge it some other time, but then you give up that time during the day and lose the use of your $600 toy until it's charged.

 

[Piggie]

You will love driving you car so much, you will want to keep filling it up with fuel.

I love their way with words.

 

[lockerc18]

No. The engineers at Apple are obviously very, very good. But they are not gods. The battery life of the Apple Watch is fine. As others have already pointed out, if I use my Macbook Pro to play Call of Duty at full settings at high brightness, it will die very fast, and it would not be accurate to call that time my normal battery life. Would I love it if the Apple Watch lasted all week? All month? Year? Of course, but that's completely impossible in 2015, so I have to commend Apple on what they've accomplished.

Geez, take a joke, would you?

You may think the battery life is fine. I do not. And there will be many others who are dissatisfied with the Watch for that reason. This isn't like "bendgate" was for the iPhone 6s (I have the 6+ and treat it miserably, and it has always worked perfectly. And I don't believe I could bend it if I tried.) This "chargegate" will hurt sales of the Watch, which would be a shame because of all the really interesting engineering that went into it. And put that side by side with the "terraced" batteries in the new MacBook that Apple is making such a big deal out of. How does it look in the marketplace to have that kind of superior battery technology in the new Mac but the Watch doesn't? Sure, different platforms, I know. But the comparison stands out, or will once the Watch hits the wild and people start complaining about how poor the battery life is.

 

[bbeagle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sho...h-battery-lasts-as-little-as-three-hours.html

Note the graph in the article. If you use the Watch as a phone, the battery lasts just 3 hours.

Sorry, folks. There is a lot of really outstanding engineering in this device. But Apple has fallen down on the battery. That will make this a very niche product.

Wow. What a biased article.

Untrue:

Batteries have long been an issue with iPhones and iPads with users for both complaining that they drain out after just a few hours.

And also untrue if you're constantly using the LG G Watch:

By comparison, users of the LG G Watch, which runs Google’s Android Wear system, get two days before it dies.

If you're CONSTANTLY using the LG G Watch, it only lasts 8 hours, not 2 days (48 hours). QUITE a bit off.

 

[lockerc18]

Untrue:
Quote:
Batteries have long been an issue with iPhones and iPads with users for both complaining that they drain out after just a few hours.

Don't you remember all the squawking about poor battery life when the iPhone5 came out? I had one, and it wasn't great. And while this may not apply, my iPad3 battery life is really poor with IOS8, but was OK with prior releases.