Kindle with 10X screen area and 10X battery lasts a month, so i guess the Pebble sucks. I know that screen isn't the only factor, but you have to figure Apple can do better than a couple of days.
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Apple's 'iWatch' Said to Arrive in October 2014 with Wireless Charging
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Kindle with 10X screen area and 10X battery lasts a month, so i guess the Pebble sucks. I know that screen isn't the only factor, but you have to figure Apple can do better than a couple of days.
Yes. I actually think your idea is what it'll be more like.
I've predicted for a while that Apple will do an "amulet" instead of a "watch", because of the stigma that the latter have gotten with the young.
Imagine the ads for your new Apple "Magic Amulet", etc.
Kindle with 10X screen area and 10X battery size lasts a month, so i guess the Pebble sucks. I know that screen isn't the only factor, but you have to figure Apple can do better than a couple of days.
This looks like a great idea for someone with one of those tiny backpacks and no pockets.
For anyone with pockets it seems rather superfluous (other than as a fashion statement).
Will Apple's next wearable be a big gold iRing that displays the % battery capacity remaining on your iWatch?
For anyone with pockets it seems rather superfluous (other than as a fashion statement).
Will Apple's next wearable be a big gold iRing that displays the % battery capacity remaining on your iWatch?
I totally agree, wireless power would be absolutely brilliant, and even with current limitations, it is great for specific purposes.
Apple has a patent for wireless power supply, with the iMac being the base station and the keyboard/mouse as the receivers. Something like that might just work, since the keyboard and mouse use such a minuscule amount of power and they're near the iMac usually.
Blasting yourself with high-power RF is generally thought of as bad.
Nice idea, but direct connection to the base-station battery would get you 95% efficiency, induction would get you 50% in absolute ideal conditions, reducing exponentially as you moved farther from the base station. Farther being inches.
lol, and an "AMULET" is going to win the young'uns over? The more youthful generation actually appreciates retro it will all come down to styling though.
Not sure what is the point of this type of device
Seriously, why do I NEED one of these? A smart phone made a lot of sense: its a phone, I can surf the web, messaging, great applications, oh, and it serves as a clock, etc. But, again, why would I need such a device? To avoid the inconvenience of pulling my phone out of my pocket to see who is calling, who IM'd me, or sent me an email? Or some biometric-centric reason?
Sorry, I just don't 'get' it. Plus I HATE wearing a watch so, I just won't get it.
Seriously, why do I NEED one of these? A smart phone made a lot of sense: its a phone, I can surf the web, messaging, great applications, oh, and it serves as a clock, etc. But, again, why would I need such a device? To avoid the inconvenience of pulling my phone out of my pocket to see who is calling, who IM'd me, or sent me an email? Or some biometric-centric reason?
Sorry, I just don't 'get' it. Plus I HATE wearing a watch so, I just won't get it.
Did you just compare a tablet E-Ink battery to a really tiny small E-Ink smart watch?
I loled again.
Mine lasted longer than that, so I suppose I should be happy, but I wasn't when I found out how much Citizen charges to replace the battery (and it can't be done by anyone else). Consumer tech is expected to be made obsolete in a matter of just a few years, but a good watch should last forever and not require factory service every five or so years.
Amen...
To quote another post in this forum: "They said December but not the year".
Obviously Apple's priority at this time of year is consumer electronics/phones/pads, and not their most high end computer with smaller demand.
This actually reminds me a lot of the movie industry which releases some academy award potential movies the last few weeks of the year to a very limited number of theaters so they qualify for the voting in 2013 but the general distribution is delayed until 2014. I won't be surprised if Apple does the same with the MP: a very limited release and relatively long shipping times in December 2013 to meet their stated commitment and then
much faster shipping times in the new year.
Look, we've waited YEARS for the MP upgrade, so what's a few more weeks.
To quote another post in this forum: "They said December but not the year".
Obviously Apple's priority at this time of year is consumer electronics/phones/pads, and not their most high end computer with smaller demand.
This actually reminds me a lot of the movie industry which releases some academy award potential movies the last few weeks of the year to a very limited number of theaters so they qualify for the voting in 2013 but the general distribution is delayed until 2014. I won't be surprised if Apple does the same with the MP: a very limited release and relatively long shipping times in December 2013 to meet their stated commitment and then
much faster shipping times in the new year.
Look, we've waited YEARS for the MP upgrade, so what's a few more weeks.
With your logic... Apple won't even try to make it then since no one will buy the first one. They need some feedbacks.
If anything... they will call it iWatch 2 and you would be a fool for not thinking iWatch kind of came from the old iPod Nano (square looking). All this time they were prolly working on the battery life.
The Qualcomm Toq has managed to do that. Albeit without an OLED, but it's definitely possible. They might pull something off using curved batteries and a curved display. Remember, this is not a product that's coming out in a few weeks where these things aren't feasible.
I had a dream last night that I had been waiting to buy an iwatch, couldn't get one, so i opted for a generic brand smart watch for $200 ish, and found it very useful for notifications. It had a thin flexible screen maybe 2x3" with a 3/4" wide black plastic band. It appeared to be made of very cheap plastic, sorta puffy, but it was surprisingly effective, and had a good screen. In my dream I remember flexing the screen back and fourth to see if it would damage it, it was a great device and i was happy with it. Sort like something designed to be as cheap as possible without sacrificing any functionality, very utilitarian. Cool dream eh?
So you could go to sleep with the watch on your wrist, wake up in the morning and it's charged. Wow, that kind of technology would be incredible if it's real, and have far more sci-fi applications than just a watch.
I've seen wireless charging demonstrated before, but it was pretty clunky. If Apple could make it 'Apple-like' then this could be their next game changer.
Despite what I've said, this story is probably just nonsense, but I'm hopeful.
Did you just compare a tablet E-Ink battery to a really tiny small E-Ink smart watch?
Did you just ignore the fact that I noted "10X battery"? Next time read before you lol.
The point was that 1500mAh (kindle) vs 150mAh (iwatch) was about the same proportion of the screen area reduction 24 inch vs 2.3.
I have a Note 3 and that phone is huge to whip out the pocket each and every time. So I can see the usage in that instance but not for a smaller phone like the iPhone. When I had the iPhone 5s it was super easy to grab it out the pocket. It starts to become redundant to have 2 devices fighting for your attention. Its like a Bluetooth headset; nice idea on paper but you start to forget to bring it, charge or dont need it. And its hard enough keeping our phones charged up; do we need to worry about another thing to charge.
I agree about a good watch lasting longer than 5 years, but Citizen doesn't fall into the high end category. You can buy a lot of their Eco models on sale for $175 - ~ $500. And I shudder to think what a factory service would be for a Rolex. The iWatch isn't going to be even remotely like a finely crafted watch.
I just don't see the use case for these...
The Samsung commercial says it all: a person is holding a phone in their hand; it rings; then he turns his hand over to look at the message on his watch. Why? Dude, you already have the phone in your hand, just look at the screen!
What functionality is the watch going to provide that isn't already with the phone, which you have with you all the time? Nowadays, more people have phones than watches.
Maybe Apple will come up with something new that is unique to a watch and for which you would not want to look at your phone, but I don't see it.
The Samsung commercial says it all: a person is holding a phone in their hand; it rings; then he turns his hand over to look at the message on his watch. Why? Dude, you already have the phone in your hand, just look at the screen!
What functionality is the watch going to provide that isn't already with the phone, which you have with you all the time? Nowadays, more people have phones than watches.
Maybe Apple will come up with something new that is unique to a watch and for which you would not want to look at your phone, but I don't see it.
trololol stop justifying yourself. You know apple aint gonna go e-ink just get get a month of battery.
As useless as this comment?
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Hmm...I dreamt last night that Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea.
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I think that would be only of interest to Level 7 Mages and above.