False Advertising?

[FlatCable]

Apple says:



90 time checks + 90 notifications, 4 seconds each = 720 seconds = 12 minutes.

45 minutes of app use = what? Hard to know without knowing what the apps are. Some activities equal just seconds of CPU usage. I mean, Flappy Bird would be using lots of resources, while looking at a calendar might not use much at all But okay, add in the full time even though.

12 + 45 + 30 = 87 minutes of use over 18 hours, or an average of ~4 minutes per hour. Not sure if that counts as "high level" of use or not.

The "Workout Test" and "Music Playback Test" seem more high usage, since those lasted for 6.5 hours each before the battery died.

Nice.

What LG says about their watches batt life? Samsung? Motorola? Huawei? Sony?

 

[rjlawrencejr]

Does anyone else think it's false advertising for companies to portray smartwatches in lifestyle shots with their displays powered on — when clearly they would be powered off in real life? Obviously they look more appealing with a perfect reflection free watch face rendering, but will some shoppers be tricked into thinking this is how the product will actually look when worn?

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In a word, no.

It's not false advertising any more than the food in the ad probably looks better than anything you will buy or make.

False or misleading advertising would be only showing the rose gold but saying the price is $349 without fine print stating the 38mm aluminum model is the base.

But just so you know, watch the Turlington video and you'll see many instances where the watch is clearly OFF when she is not specifically interacting with it.

 

[cdm283813]

Nice.

What LG says about their watches batt life? Samsung? Motorola? Huawei? Sony?

It won't matter for Android Wear because Wear does not try to replace the phone. Apple is giving the watch all these abilities and apps so people will naturally use the watch more thus battery life will be worst. Once people start to use the watch as a basic notification tool that's when people will see the best battery life.
Until then expect these forums to be filled with terrible battery life threads.

 

[FlatCable]

It won't matter for Android Wear because Wear does not try to replace the phone. Apple is giving the watch all these abilities and apps so people will naturally use the watch more thus battery life will be worst. Once people start to use the watch as a basic notification tool that's when people will see the best battery life.

Logic

So the Apple Watch doesn't work without an iPhone, but you say it's replacing the phone?

And Android Wear isn't, because it's crappier? No Apps on Android Wear? No functionality?

Until then expect these forums to be filled with terrible battery life threads.

Yeah, I'm expecting that...

... from people that don't even have one.

 

[zacheryjensen]

Apple says:



90 time checks + 90 notifications, 4 seconds each = 720 seconds = 12 minutes.

45 minutes of app use = what? Hard to know without knowing what the apps are. Some activities equal just seconds of CPU usage. I mean, Flappy Bird would be using lots of resources, while looking at a calendar might not use much at all But okay, add in the full time even though.

12 + 45 + 30 = 87 minutes of use over 18 hours, or an average of ~4 minutes per hour. Not sure if that counts as "high level" of use or not.

The "Workout Test" and "Music Playback Test" seem more high usage, since those lasted for 6.5 hours each before the battery died.

App use will be fairly heavy. It will be engaging Bluetooth/WiFi at all times as well as the screen which will almost certainly be the largest power drain.

45 minutes of App use seems fairly excessive to me for a single day. I'd say they were pretty generous with that aspect of the test.

 

[KenAFSPC]

Does anyone else think it's false advertising for companies to portray smartwatches in lifestyle shots with their displays powered on — when clearly they would be powered off in real life? Obviously they look more appealing with a perfect reflection free watch face rendering, but will some shoppers be tricked into thinking this is how the product will actually look when worn?

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It is not false advertising if the smartwatch has an "always on" OLED or E-Paper display. Some existing (and more upcoming) Android smartwatches offer an "always on" display. The Pebble has always provided such a display.

This is a feature we will likely see in Apple Watch 2.