Right... So, I guess you wouldn't have released the Iphone or Ipad which had what 10h of heavy use in them.... Good grief.
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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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Right... So, I guess you wouldn't have released the Iphone or Ipad which had what 10h of heavy use in them.... Good grief.
BTW, why are they waiting until after the daylight savings time switch to release it? Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in my book. 
And yes, I know it's different in different parts of the world.
And yes, I know it's different in different parts of the world.
Almost no phone goes 8 hours with the screen on or under heavy usage. The Android wear watches don't even come close to 5 hours with heavy usage.
Blue tooth LE (not the original blue tooth) is a very low battery user. Later versions can even get a pretty decent throughput at very low power. Notifications are not sent all the time and they are tiny bits of info. The watch is very close, reducing power drain too.
The power drain of your notifications should be negligible.
I've got my camping gear and my money ready! Bring it on!
Too bad it won't last the camping trip!
In all seriousness, I thought about camping.
I guess I'd have to take a battery bank with me, unless this can last days with just the time function on.
It truly is baffling and mind blowing how ignorant and naive people are when it comes the apple watch. I think the most important thing Apple needs to do Monday is to convey the Watch's specs and features as clearly as possible for all of the, er, slow people to comprehend it.
Apple and oranges. Fitbit doesn't have a color screen or WiFi or have constant two way communication with a phone. It also doesn't accurately measure HR based on my own experience -- about 10% off compared to a chest strap during the same period.
For $149 you get a fixed use activity band with clock, SMS alerts, HR monitor. For $349 you are getting a watch with color touch screen and multifunction task capability including two way SMS and full notifications and advanced activity monitoring and all the expansion 3rd party apps provide. It's like comparing the gas milage on a moped to a car.
Nothing agains the Fitbit Charge HR. It's a good activity band. But these are very different products.
It's not as much about the specific apps but about Apple's want for app devs to develop apps for the watch. They obviously want people to use the watch for more than just small bits of information or else they wouldn't have given devs the option to do more with it.
They would have stuck with simple notifications that users will have to pull out their phones to interact with. And what would be the point of that when there are already products on the market that do the same thing, but with better battery life?
It just seems like there's a lot of goalpost moving going on here.
People were ecstatic when Apple was coming out with a watch because of its potential and all it will be able to do, and how it will have more apps and better features than other smartwatches on the market. But now that news is coming out that battery life won't be so great, now it's become all about being frugal with the device usage and only using it for simple tasks and notifications, and handing off bigger tasks to the iPhone.
I don't get it.
Curious about the FitBit heart rate monitoring
you say it's off about 10%, but under stressful excercise is this the same? is it an average, just trying to get an idea of accuract.
I've been debating getting a smartwatch for monitoring my heart rate while I play hockey and the wrist based solution is really my only choice. But if it's wildly inaccurate, that really limits me.
Thanks for sharing? Don't buy, Apple and the people here don't care. Might want to wait until it is released to pass judgement.
Monitoring the heart rate is not heavy usage at all unless your monitoring it by looking at the screen of your watch all day...
I'd expect that a very low processor like the M8 in the Iphone 6 will take care to gather all the sensor data and only wake up the screen/main cpu under some defined circumstances to tell you if something your looking for happened. You can then review whatever data you feel like.
Your comparing a fitbit to this watch. Is that serious?
MacBooks don't even last much past 6 hours with heavy usage. The Apple watch will be doing a lot less.
It's not like you'll be browsing the web and watching movies on the watch. Its battery life is about as good as you could expect from the size, its utility, and the current battery technology.
So doing normal day to day tasks will amount to charging it once a day, same as every other mobile device in your home.
Apple specifically says interactions with the watch should be considered in seconds not minutes. So your definition of "as intended" isn't Apple's.
Too bad it won't last the camping trip!
In all seriousness, I thought about camping.
I guess I'd have to take a battery bank with me, unless this can last days with just the time function on.
If you use it moderately, I'm expecting the big watch to last 2 days.
BTW, it is camping, maybe you could shut down the phone for a little while ;-).
There's so little power in the watch cells, that even a small external battery should give you a few cycles of charging.
This is the problem with all iDevices, you all seems to be happy with charging them every night.
When did it suddenly become environmentally friendly to charge things every day? They should be lasting 4 or 5 days on a single charge.
Well if I get this watch I don't plan on 5 hours of heavy use. I don't even do that with my iPhone other than when I'm listening to music. So yeah I think people are willfully being obtuse throwing around this 5 hour battery life claim.
That's kind of my point.
I don't care if my phone runs out of juice when I'm camping. I do care if my watch can't tell the time.
Or maybe I should be one with nature and tell the time by the sun and star alignment.
WOW.
http://lifehacker.com/5948075/how-m...s-in-a-year-and-what-it-means-for-your-budget
These numbers are over 2 years old.
I don't think you understand energy usage very well. Charging amounts don't matter, just the total energy consumed, which in minuscule even compared to an incandescent lightbulb.
Agree.
Do you think apple cares about the environment? If they would care, then a device or OS would need to be changed every 5 years not every year. This is the new apple. Fast burning and fast dying.