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Apple Watch Battery to Support Five Hours of Heavy Usage, Will Last All Day With Mixed Use
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Let's say worst case and most unlikely scenario: you interact with your Watch for 30 seconds each time, so with the stated 5 hours of life, you could get potentially 600 30 second interactions which should be plenty!
Again, this is worst case scenario and Apple is recommending 10 second interactions to devs for app designs.
I know right, remember its a watch, not a phone. You wont be watching an hour long show on your watch, or a two hour movie, or be playing a graphic intensive game....geez
I heard that the new apple watch can monitor BAC levels. Is this true? Or monitor it in such a way that they can give a fairly accurate reading through the various health sensors on it.
This would be great. Also tying it in with keyless entry for cars, and the watch will automatically prevent you from turning on your car
This would be great. Also tying it in with keyless entry for cars, and the watch will automatically prevent you from turning on your car
here your $10,000 gold watch...with 5 hours of battery life
So are people intentionally being obtuse? 5 hours of HEAVY USE is not 5 hours battery life.
The fact that original rumors pegged this at 2.5 hours say to me that battery life is going to be better than expected.
this is a really bad sign for the longevity of the watch. sure, it'll last all day with normal use out of the box. but what about a year from now? as with an iPhone, will you have to take your watch off at noon to charge it to last the rest of the day? by year 2 of owning the watch...?
this seems to be a major impediment to buying an apple watch.
this seems to be a major impediment to buying an apple watch.
Believe it or not, most CEO's don't go around around constantly saying something as fact, only to have it later be found out as completely false. Yes, there are some that do, I won't say everyone is innocent. But Cook has been, up to this point, very open and honest.
When Apple gets up on stage and tells you your future iPad is X mm's thin, do you bust out your ruler when you buy one to see if they were being honest?
Apple never said the battery couldn't be replaced. And what evidence do you have that the battery will degrade that much in one year?
This would mean only Tim & co. is not the source of this. Or the Apple executives are saving it for Monday morning.
That'd be the last thing Apple would do. Screen refresh and things feeling smooth has always been important to Apple, from the first Mac to the iPhone. That's how Android managed battery life until recently. Apple wants things to look and feel fluid, so no. That'd hurt the watch a lot.
I'd say that a watch is slightly different to an iPad or an iPhone. Say, I went on a camping trip for a couple of days, I'd want my watch to work all the time.
Obviously, it depends on one's situation. I'm comfortable with recharging it every day, but I can see how it would be a deal breaker for some.
Where does it say the entire watch face will turn red? It's a glance, different from a watch face.
I'm not disputing that what you're saying is wrong, but no where does the article say it's "on-screen time," just "heavy usage," which can be pretty subjective depending on the user.
Also, don't forget, the battery life will be programmed to get worse day by day. So that we all look forward to buying Apple Watch 2.
They can claim whatever - battery life of iPhones since 5 is dramatically horrible - 6-7 hours of active usage at most, while Samsung scores up to 8 and Sony (almost leader now) up to 10. And we are talking about constant usage, not stand-by. This is the reason they didn't talk about battery - nowadays its a shame topic for Apple.
For watch usage pattern is different, we will see from actual reports.
BTW, thank you early adopters for beta-testing the first version of Watch for us, so we can buy improved second version next year.
For watch usage pattern is different, we will see from actual reports.
BTW, thank you early adopters for beta-testing the first version of Watch for us, so we can buy improved second version next year.