Battery Life = Amazing!

CharlieBrandt09

CharlieBrandt09

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Put the watch on at around 8:00am today, it is now after 4:00pm and it is still at 83%. Granted, it isn't under heavy use, but it is under what I will consider normal use for everyday. I am impressed!

Now, let's see what happens when I try out the 10 app with my Phantom drone later at sunset.
 
Battery life is something I'm tracking.

But to judge so soon can be dangerously misleading. You're likely setting yourself up for disappointment. That's not saying it'll be bad, but what your choosing to believe has no track record to back it up.

It's meaningless.

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CharlieBrandt09 said:
Put the watch on at around 8:00am today, it is now after 4:00pm and it is still at 83%. Granted, it isn't under heavy use, but it is under what I will consider normal use for everyday. I am impressed!

Now, let's see what happens when I try out the 10 app with my Phantom drone later at sunset.
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Are you a voyeur, or why would you have a drone?
 
I agree 100%. I've had mine on from 7:30am-4:22pm, using it quite a bit, and have 61% left. I don't see what the big deal is charging every night.
 
whatos said:
Battery life is something I'm tracking.

But to judge so soon can be dangerously misleading. You're likely setting yourself up for disappointment. That's not saying it'll be bad, but what your choosing to believe has no track record to back it up.

It's meaningless.
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I agree. I got my watch at 5pm and charged it and by 10pm it was at 50%. I was really disappointed but figured I'd suspend judgement until I had more time with the watch. So far, after a morning charge at 9am and moderate use, it's at 68% at almost 4:30. That's better than the previous day, but we just don't know until we have more time with it.
 
whatos said:
Battery life is something I'm tracking.

But to judge so soon can be dangerously misleading. You're likely setting yourself up for disappointment. That's not saying it'll be bad, but what your choosing to believe has no track record to back it up.

It's meaningless.

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Are you a voyeur, or why would you have a drone?
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Because I am a tech geek and a photography enthusiast. Nothing "voyeuristic" about it!
 

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CharlieBrandt09 said:
Put the watch on at around 8:00am today, it is now after 4:00pm and it is still at 83%. Granted, it isn't under heavy use, but it is under what I will consider normal use for everyday. I am impressed!

Now, let's see what happens when I try out the 10 app with my Phantom drone later at sunset.
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Good for you guys. Mine is much worse then expected. Maybe I really have a lemon. Put it on this morning at 7 am. At 8 pm the watch went into power savings mode. I didn't play with it a lot. I would say normal use case. The only thing I did do is to use the activity tracker while walking for around 90 minutes. Maybe that did run the battery down?
 
Mine started the day at 8am full.. Day out with med use and it's now at 60%. Thinking I may just charge between the time I wake up and leave for work as apple says a 0-80% takes just 1.5 hours.....brill
 
I was quietly impressed yesterday when I used it after it was delivered.

I turned it on around 11AM, and after using it a fair amount, including initial setup, I'd started at around 75% and by 9PM, after a 45 minute run, i was at around 30% still.

Today, It came off charge at 8.30AM @ 100% and after using a fair bit, not constant, but pretty often, it now 21.30, so after 13 hours I'm still at 57%.

When i compare it to the Samsung Gear Live that I had with my HTC M8 - that was using roughly 10% per hour with similar usage. Almost every day, I'd be down to 20%ish by late afternoon/early evening at best.

Considering the Apple watch has only a 205mAh compared to the Gear Live @ 300mAh (approx), I'm pretty damn impressed. I had been assuming the Apple Watch would be pretty much on a par with the Android watches.
 
CharlieBrandt09 said:
Put the watch on at around 8:00am today, it is now after 4:00pm and it is still at 83%. Granted, it isn't under heavy use, but it is under what I will consider normal use for everyday. I am impressed!

Now, let's see what happens when I try out the 10 app with my Phantom drone later at sunset.
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CharlieBrandt09 said:
Because I am a tech geek and a photography enthusiast. Nothing "voyeuristic" about it!
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Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I meant to put a :) but went too fast and forgot.

I think using a drone as a photographer would be so much fun.
 
Took off the charger at 9AM, it's now 4:40PM and I have 56% left. Better than yesterday because I haven't been using it much. The exercise app took 20% away. I wonder why... it'd be wonderful if I didn't exercise everyday.
 
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