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Samsung Announces Gear IconX Wireless Earbuds and Gear Fit 2

billy the fish said:
Oh mate, you are simply wrong, so am I as well. I've just read that a professional reviewer posing as a MR know it all says we will be lucky to get 4 to 6 hrs when they advertise 24 hrs. But here's the thing, they are bragging that the AW gets the 18 hrs they advertise, as somehow they are happy to get less than a full day out of a wearable.

I did a small test last nite, my battery was on 18% when I went to bed at 11pm, and at 8 this morn, was down to 9%, so basically a percent an hour with screen turned off. I think I can live with that.
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Thing is I have both gear S2 and apple watch so there would be no agenda here with my testing.

using my apple watch at the moment with my 6S plus as my daily driver for now and took my apple watch off charger at 5am and by 11pm it had about 7% left. Which is fine and all as it lasted me all day but in my normal usage I would have about 30-40% left on my gear at worse with workouts included.

I have not downloaded the new apple watch update yet so i dunno if that update improves my battery life anymore
 
I bet Samesung is following up Apple's rumors more than us, so they could make product in advance no matter how crappy it is.
That's what they do actually all along .. copy, press, childish ads, etc..
 
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The Game 161 said:
Thing is I have both gear S2 and apple watch so there would be no agenda here with my testing.

using my apple watch at the moment with my 6S plus as my daily driver for now and took my apple watch off charger at 5am and by 11pm it had about 7% left. Which is fine and all as it lasted me all day but in my normal usage I would have about 30-40% left on my gear at worse with workouts included.

I have not downloaded the new apple watch update yet so i dunno if that update improves my battery life anymore
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As long as they Do a full day that's the minimum and is fine, it's just this rediculous insistence that Samsung can't make a device with decent power usage and it automatically has to be v poor. What goes through the minds of some posters of here baffles me. The automatic defend Apple to the hilt mentality.. jeez... every second thread on the front page is about buggy Apple software. Talk about people in glass houses..
 
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billy the fish said:
As long as they Do a full day that's the minimum and is fine, it's just this rediculous insistence that Samsung can't make a device with decent power usage and it automatically has to be v poor. What goes through the minds of some posters of here baffles me. The automatic defend Apple to the hilt mentality.. jeez... every second thread on the front page is about buggy Apple software. Talk about people in glass houses..
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It's like people can't see the greatness on all platforms
 
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SMIDG3T said:
Wow, 90 minutes of battery life. I know this is going to sound arrogant but you just know that when Apple release their "AirPods" next year with the iPhone 7, they'll have better battery life.
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Yeah, because thats exactly what the Apple Watch (nope) and rMB (nope) had.
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Zirel said:
And these are just 2 examples.
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You're telling me you've never seen mini bluetooth headsets until 2015? Are you twelve years old or something? We had these things over a decade ago.
 
Exhale said:
You're telling me you've never seen mini bluetooth headsets until 2015? Are you twelve years old or something? We had these things over a decade ago.
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Without a wire connecting the two, no, and a case that has the charging contacts, also not.
 
mytawalbeh said:
I bet Samesung is following up Apple's rumors more than us, so they could make product in advance no matter how crappy it is.
That's what they do actually all along .. copy, press, childish ads, etc..
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yeah, like curved screen.... smart watch.... notification screen..
Oh wait!
 
Zirel said:
Without a wire connecting the two, no, and a case that has the charging contacts, also not.
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You didn't respond when i called you out on the 4 to 6 hrs battery life you claimed last years Samsung smart watch. Why is that, you were playing to the audience, trying to get upvotes, pathetic!!!! Wearables.com rate the gear s2 as the market leading smart watch with the best battery life outside of a e ink screen pebble. Mine does 2 days with ease, but no, in your deluded mind, by lunchtime its dead. Do you believe this BS, or are you genuinely trying to gain acceptance in this community by spouting trash,?
 
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KALLT said:
It is far from ‘plenty’. No avid music listener would enjoy this. This is what happens when Samsung innovates. They have no focus or restraint.
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With the added functionalities I dont believe this is targeted at the avid music listener - seems like "innovation" is in the eye of the beholder.
 
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mytawalbeh said:
I bet Samesung is following up Apple's rumors more than us, so they could make product in advance no matter how crappy it is.
That's what they do actually all along .. copy, press, childish ads, etc..
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This is weird, as somehow they have copied the iPhone so well, they have the undisputed no. 1 smartphone on sale today. With the best screen, the best camera, the best battery life, the best design, best video, waterproof, wireless charging. Then last iPhone had none of these, so have they copied those features off someone else, or just produced a top notch device.

Hang on, just remembered. Its not who does it first, its who does it right. And right now, by a long long way, Samsung does it right. Then worst thing is that every fanboy knows them and it absolutely tears them up inside. They hate it when their apple love child is churning out tosh, but they have no choice but to buy them. Steve is gone, innovation is gone. They simply just copy what Samsung had last year for their next years model. How lame!!!!
 
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Exhale said:
Yeah, because thats exactly what the Apple Watch (nope) and rMB (nope) had.
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WOT? The Apple Watch, for what it does, has a very good battery life. I'm sitting at 74% and I've used it multiple times today. As for the MacBook Pro, are you serious? It has excellent battery life, I've been watching GoT for many hours and that's sitting at 83%. What is wrong with people nowadays?
 
billy the fish said:
You didn't respond when i called you out on the 4 to 6 hrs battery life you claimed last years Samsung smart watch. Why is that, you were playing to the audience, trying to get upvotes, pathetic!!!! Wearables.com rate the gear s2 as the market leading smart watch with the best battery life outside of a e ink screen pebble. Mine does 2 days with ease, but no, in your deluded mind, by lunchtime its dead. Do you believe this BS, or are you genuinely trying to gain acceptance in this community by spouting trash,?
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YOU are deluded, and playing your game.

The Galaxy S2 came out after the Apple Watch, and it's much newer than the original, which has severe battery problems, and about ⅓ of people actually returned it!

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...dly-has-a-30-percent-return-rate-at-best-buy/

billy the fish said:
This is weird, as somehow they have copied the iPhone so well, they have the undisputed no. 1 smartphone on sale today. With the best screen, the best camera, the best battery life, the best design, best video, waterproof, wireless charging. Then last iPhone had none of these, so have they copied those features off someone else, or just produced a top notch device.

Hang on, just remembered. Its not who does it first, its who does it right. And right now, by a long long way, Samsung does it right. Then worst thing is that every fanboy knows them and it absolutely tears them up inside. They hate it when their apple love child is churning out tosh, but they have no choice but to buy them. Steve is gone, innovation is gone. They simply just copy what Samsung had last year for their next years model. How lame!!!!
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Yes, it's in the BOOK!
 
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MH01 said:
I would not laugh too hard, it's based on current tech and if an apple version is made, it will be smaller, look better and have less battery.
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Don't the Bragi's have 3 hours? I mean that's also not great but it's double that... And we're talking about Samsung, shouldn't they be able to come up with something better than what's currently out there?
 
tann said:
People smashing these but let's be real, if apple are working on similar I bet it'll have less internal memory but be thinner and have around the same battery life.

Oh and they'd cost more.
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LOL pretty much. And a lot of the people who are bashing this product would praise Apple for releasing the same ****. Hell Apple is the same company that has a 700.00 (with taxes) 2016 smartphone, with a 750p display and 16GBs of storage (is really like 12 gigs but who's counting) If Samsung did that with the S7, the apple fandom would never let Sammy live that down. Hell if any other company did that, they'd be laughed out of the tech world. But of course Apple gets the almighty iPass
 
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penajmz said:
Don't the Bragi's have 3 hours? I mean that's also not great but it's double that... And we're talking about Samsung, shouldn't they be able to come up with something better than what's currently out there?
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Irrespective who the company is , current battery tech is a limiting factor.
 
I don't care how convinient cordless headphones are,I won't risk getting a tumor or cancer by using bluetooth headphones continuously.
there are so many legit concerns and links to such horrible conditions.
 
SMIDG3T said:
WOT? The Apple Watch, for what it does, has a very good battery life. I'm sitting at 74% and I've used it multiple times today. As for the MacBook Pro, are you serious? It has excellent battery life, I've been watching GoT for many hours and that's sitting at 83%. What is wrong with people nowadays?
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Are you new here or something?
Firstly, rMB = Retina Macbook. There was no P for Pro there. Second of all, do you not remember the oh so popular chant that it would have "20 hour battery life"? Yeah, it missed that target by a hilarious amount.

And again, the popular claim for the watch prior to its release was that it would last far longer than competitors in similar usage scenarios. Again - that didn't happen.
 
mytawalbeh said:
I bet Samesung is following up Apple's rumors more than us, so they could make product in advance no matter how crappy it is.
That's what they do actually all along .. copy, press, childish ads, etc..
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Do you think the fact that Samsung produces TV sets indicates that they heard rumors about Apple releasing TV set soon? I have been waiting for Apple TV set for one decade now. How much longer should I wait? My Zenith is dying.
 
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