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Apple Watch Takes Two Hours to Charge, Only Delivers Notifications While on the Wrist

The most innovative company in the world?

With that market cap. Apple should have created some new kind of energy source. Maybe a tiny methanol fuel cell implemented in the watch.

One day battery life is pretty weak. My nightstand is full with cables for iPad iPhone bluetooth headset ...
 
lewisd25 said:
I've never heard so much complaining in my life, and the product isn't even out yet.
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Had this product been the Google or Microsoft Watch, it would be an excellent product before even the first prototype was manufactured, and it would be a sign of how Apple is no longer innovating. But put a fruit logo on it and it's useless... :rolleyes:

Rogifan said:
And complaining from people who most likely have no intention of buying it. ;)
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This is true.

JayLenochiniMac said:
Actually, people complain then buy anyway, as we've seen repeatedly on this forum.
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This is also true.

All you have to do is scroll down the page, look at the usernames on the left, and you can reliably predict the people that are going to make a negative comment with 100% certainty. Doesn't matter whether or not the person decides to ever purchase the product; some people just live on these forums to complain, not because they have any interest in Apple products.

And before one of the aforementioned people replies to this post, I know that I'm going to get a "I don't dislike Apple, I'm just not a fansheep" kind of comment... which doesn't at all change the glass half-empty perspective that those people have. I'd never complain about an electronic device as much as some of these people do, because I'd get rid of it long before it consumed me to the point of complaining on the internet over and over again. And then comes the "I'm invested in the ecosystem" comment... so sorry, but sometimes you have to make tough choices.
 
joshlalonde said:
Eh,
I think they shoulda thought of a better battery life solution. All-week battery life would have been nice... Heck, they coulda thought of something ingenious like "Shake to recharge it" or something like that..
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Its really easy to sit here on macrumors and say they should have made something where you can shake to recharge it. However its not as simple to actually implement.
 
PBF said:
Correction: 5 hours to charge, 2 hours of usage ;)
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Correction: 2 hours charge. Whole day usage. If you try really, really, really hard for five hours then you _can_ manage to empty the battery, but you have to work hard.
 
sdz said:
With that market cap. Apple should have created some new kind of energy source. Maybe a tiny methanol fuel cell implemented in the watch.

One day battery life is pretty weak. My nightstand is full with cables for iPad iPhone bluetooth headset ...
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What does market cap have to do with everything? Is the top pizza maker in the world supposed to invent a new kind of pizza just because people buy their pizza the most because they love their products?

NASA, advanced military, top automakers, and the CIA can't create this technology, why is Apple "supposed" to?
 
Bromeo said:
I am doing some development work on an Android Wear watch, specifically a Moto360. Nice bit of kit. Battery life gets me to 40-60% after a full day. I simply place it in its inductive charging cradle as I go to bed, where it both recharges and functions as a handy bedside clock. It's ready to rock in the morning, and in reality, that's just as convenient as my automatic self-winding Rolex, if not more-so.

If I'm on an overnight trip without the charger, I simply turn the watch completely off before bed, and I'll have enough to squeak through a second day. Longer trips are where extra battery capacity would be great, so you don't have to worry about charging while away from home.
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So does it manage five hours of heavy usage? I doubt it.
 
I'm going to agree with the battery complaints. You're not going to want to carry your only proprietary charger with you.

Things happen, like coming home the next morning from a full yesterday.

And then those times when you forget to charge it, it would suck to barley not have any juice left when you wake up and in a rush to leave. Something I do a lot with my Gear 2 Neo, luckily I still have plenty of battery life to last me days.

And let's not act like people aren't going to use this watch very heavily. From what I've seen, it will have the best software and integration.
 
If I buy the iWatch that will make 6 Apple devices I need to charge every night, each with their own cable and power socket. Apple's refusal to adopt wireless charging is just getting ridiculous now.
 
Shaun said:
If I buy the iWatch that will make 6 Apple devices I need to charge every night, each with their own cable and power socket. Apple's refusal to adopt wireless charging is just getting ridiculous now.
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What are the 6 devices you have to charge every night? And by the way it's called Watch, not iWatch. You'd think 6+ months after the announcement people would get the name right.
 
NT1440 said:
Yes, watches that take milliwatts to operate.

Given the way power efficiency scales, this will be the norm for smart watches in 5 years, but certainly not anytime soon. The energy harvested is nowhere near what would be needed.
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Watch batteries typically have about 200 mWh (milli watt hours) capacity. The first battery in my watch lasted about 50,000 hours which would make it 0.004 milliwatt.

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PBF said:
Even worse the posts about complaining about the complaining.
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On a positive note, I really love all the people complaining about the complainers. There is so much nonsense posted here by the usual suspects, anyone complaining about them is doing a good deed.
 
CFreymarc said:
While I'm sure this has been said before, I'm sure Steve would have plenty to say about this watch. It is more and more paralleling the Apple Newton.
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I think I'll go with the opinions of people who have actually been using the watch than people here who have never used it and are just sniping from the sidelines.
 
"Things happen, like coming home the next morning from a full yesterday.

And then those times when you forget to charge it, it would suck to barley not have any juice left when you wake up and in a rush to leave. Something I do a lot with my Gear 2 Neo, luckily I still have plenty of battery life to last me days."

I guess the Apple products are not designed for people who sometimes don't manage to find the trailer they usually sleep in:D
 
oliversl said:
If you charge at night, 2 hours is insignificant. But if you forgot to charge at night and want to charge during day, 2 hours is too much.
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Typically your charger would be besides the bed. At least that's the logical place. So you wouldn't have the charger with you. Maybe Apple has a tiny adapter that will work with any USB charger or any lightning charger.
 
They could provide better battery life if they wanted to.

But then they wouldn't be as likely to sell you at least one additional charging cable that you would need to charge the unit while at work! The accessory market for the watch is going to be insane.
 
CFreymarc said:
While I'm sure this has been said before, I'm sure Steve would have plenty to say about this watch. It is more and more paralleling the Apple Newton.
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Ah, the old "let's put words into the late Steve Jobs' mouth" technique. Guaranteed to prove a point every time without any counter-argument!
 
It has to be in contact with your skin to function, meaning you can't not use the bio-metric features. That's kind of creepy. :cool:
 
I want to add for next year

I don't want to hear this "Oh, we got to make this thinner" garbage this year.

MAKE Apple Watch 2 with 2 days of battery life (AT LEAST)

it's ridiculous for those of us who want to track our sleep to offer a watch you have to take it off daily to charge.

my Nike Fuelband last a week, sure it's not a smart watch, but that's the kind of battery life I expect from a watch
 
Rogifan said:
What are the 6 devices you have to charge every night? And by the way it's called Watch, not iWatch. You'd think 6+ months after the announcement people would get the name right.
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If you must know iPhones 5s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, iPod touch, MBA and soon the A-Watch. Those are just the ones I use on a daily basis. PS I honestly couldn't give a **** what it's called.
 
kingofwale said:
my Nike Fuelband last a week, sure it's not a smart watch, but that's the kind of battery life I expect from a watch
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It's great saying that, but it could be technologically impossible to create a smartwatch like this with such a long battery life. I'm sure Apple has done all they could, I assume the technology just isn't there yet to give it a longer battery life.
 
gnasher729 said:
Do you want your watch to receive notifications while you are in the shower?
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Some people will. I use my iPhone constantly from early to late with incoming texts, emails, reminders and notifications pinging away all day. I wouldn't take an A-Watch into the shower though as it would probably ruin it. Apple devices look nice but they're not the most resilient things.
 
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