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Battery, Screen and Manufacturing Issues Plaguing Apple's iWatch Development
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ZERO use for this product
what a waste of "innovation"
are they coming out with a "Smart Sneaker" or an "iToaster" next
Same was said when Apple was making an MP3 layer....
Nobody wears their watches to bed, so why not just include wireless charging?
Anyway, I have a feeling this product will the 'iPod killer'. The Shuffle, Nano, and to a lesser extent the Touch are used primarily by people that are into exercise. If the iWatch contains a pedometer, heart rate monitor, and a Music App, than we can say goodbye to half the iPod range.
I'm still not sure how much appeal this product will have outside of fitness junkies, but I'll refrain myself from being skeptical until I know what other features it has.
Anyway, I have a feeling this product will the 'iPod killer'. The Shuffle, Nano, and to a lesser extent the Touch are used primarily by people that are into exercise. If the iWatch contains a pedometer, heart rate monitor, and a Music App, than we can say goodbye to half the iPod range.
I'm still not sure how much appeal this product will have outside of fitness junkies, but I'll refrain myself from being skeptical until I know what other features it has.
Holding back on smartwatches... I was considering Pebble Smartwatch Steel but I decided to wait. Hope Apple comes up with something cool
I just don't get smartwatches
With the use of smartphones people hardly use a regular watch these days.Why would you need a smartphone and a smartwatch?(anyone who has both please feel free to enlighten me!)
If i'm going to buy a watch I will save up and get something that is classic that I can pass down to future generations not something that is going to be out of date after a year.
It seems to me that all the smartwatches just do (poorly) the exact same functions of a smartphone-why do you need text alerts to your wrist if your phone is in your back pocket?
Don't get me wrong I love innovation and new technologies but this seems like a colossal waste of time
With the use of smartphones people hardly use a regular watch these days.Why would you need a smartphone and a smartwatch?(anyone who has both please feel free to enlighten me!)
If i'm going to buy a watch I will save up and get something that is classic that I can pass down to future generations not something that is going to be out of date after a year.
It seems to me that all the smartwatches just do (poorly) the exact same functions of a smartphone-why do you need text alerts to your wrist if your phone is in your back pocket?
Don't get me wrong I love innovation and new technologies but this seems like a colossal waste of time
I suppose it was barely a half joke. My watch charges by harnessing wrist movements (go ahead an insert a joke right there) which is great, but the power required to keep a simple timepiece running is quite a bit lower than that required to power an OLED screen and all the motion tracking, bluetooth etc. I suspect it would be the same issue for solar - benefits would be negligible even if the whole strap were a solar panel.
Exactly.
Having to wear a smart watch that looks like a wrist-gadget for a 10-year-old (like they look like right now) isn't very appealing to many...
Is a wrist watch a piece of jewellery with some functions or is it a functional object for on the wrist?
I just hope that if Apple really makes the iWatch, they will have "jewellery" in the back of their mind...
They generally make stuff not for nerds...
screw solar power, i say put a nuclear reactor on that thing!
not really. When you got competition putting out new smartwatches everyday and when you have the whole stock market impatiently waiting for your next move/product since they're already quite sceptical about your future innovations...well lets just say that time is the last thing that apple has right now
So, Apple is finally facing the crunch
Took their time...
OLED ..... trade off battery life vs better screen..
However, it IS only only a wrist watch basically with over the top features. who's exactly gonna know or even care how good the screen is on a watch face ?
Its a watch, not a piece of jewelry.
Besides, you iPhone is more important to look at anyway.
Its good to know Apple is caring about screen technology, but seriously, aren't they going over-board.... ? All watches scratch, and they'll probably also try ad make it "scratch resistant" and etc, like they "have" to...
To me, i don't really care on the screen quality, i don't admire a watch, i just look at it to tel time or do what i want with it...
If you need a good display, get an iPhone ........
On the plus side of this, battery life exceed everything to Apple, so it would be interesting to see just how much they can please the customer with OLED AND top battery life..
Personally though, i have an iPhone.
Took their time...
OLED ..... trade off battery life vs better screen..
However, it IS only only a wrist watch basically with over the top features. who's exactly gonna know or even care how good the screen is on a watch face ?
Its a watch, not a piece of jewelry.
Besides, you iPhone is more important to look at anyway.
Its good to know Apple is caring about screen technology, but seriously, aren't they going over-board.... ? All watches scratch, and they'll probably also try ad make it "scratch resistant" and etc, like they "have" to...
To me, i don't really care on the screen quality, i don't admire a watch, i just look at it to tel time or do what i want with it...
If you need a good display, get an iPhone ........
On the plus side of this, battery life exceed everything to Apple, so it would be interesting to see just how much they can please the customer with OLED AND top battery life..
Personally though, i have an iPhone.
Rolex's are hideous.
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Um... then the battery encasement is metal
At least he's honest about it. We spend a lot of money on things that we don't need, but (pure) tablets and toys like the AppleTV fall in the category of mostly useless things - especially when you own a notebook or desktop machine.
something like this i would love...but yes this isnt for 10 year old child
http://www.longines.com/watches/3d-watches/The_Longines_Master_Collection_MC1
http://www.longines.com/watches/3d-watches/The_Longines_Master_Collection_MC1
It's a good day then... well when these bad boys arrive...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22191650
Charges in a instant. 10x more powerful. When this was announced they were talking smart phone batteries 2mm thick that last for a week and car batteries the same size as a tesla running for 2000 miles. Now that will be a good day.
APPLE is LOOSING FACE
I think Apple scare because Samsung bumping hard on their ads on their WATCH and almost everyone I mean 80% of the consumer buy it with their Galaxy Phones... I even ask my sister why don't wait for the iWatch and her respond was nah take too long for the wait....
Well I think TIM waisting a lot of time by concentrating to the lower end products on popular consumer I mean Cheap Bastard like Walmart or maybe Dollar store and don't care about making a fine piece of technology, we all miss Steve Job if he still alive I can tell he will not waist his energy on that type of consumer
I think Apple scare because Samsung bumping hard on their ads on their WATCH and almost everyone I mean 80% of the consumer buy it with their Galaxy Phones... I even ask my sister why don't wait for the iWatch and her respond was nah take too long for the wait....
Well I think TIM waisting a lot of time by concentrating to the lower end products on popular consumer I mean Cheap Bastard like Walmart or maybe Dollar store and don't care about making a fine piece of technology, we all miss Steve Job if he still alive I can tell he will not waist his energy on that type of consumer
Just my guess, but both solar and kinetic charging use considerable space and produce very little power. That power is enough for a conventional watch (which alternatively could run for a year on a little button cell battery), yet on a hungry smartwatch it might just add a few minutes to its two-day runtime. All else remaining equal it would likely be better to drop the supplemental charging feature and increase that 100 mAh battery instead.
I know a geeky site like this is going to have more than it's fair share of empathy challenged visitors. But, is it so hard to understand that different people have different requirements and just because they're different from yours doesn't make them wrong?
I somewhat believe in this theory. Although the big iPad may turn into something else I don't see the iwatch coming to reality any time soon.
