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Tim Cook on Apple Watch: 'You're Going to Wind Up Charging It Daily'
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Well I just think comparing power requirements of a fitness band to a full-blown "smart watch" is not fair.
For instance, Samsung has that hideously big smart watch that also works as a phone.
It has a very short battery life but that's totally understandable.
How is it pointless? What if I happen to work a double shift? What if its the weekend and I'm out late in NYC after taking the train in. I end up partying a little longer and miss the last train out to NJ. Now I'm stuck in the city until 5am or later. By time I get home its well after 6am. You are telling me 24 hours is pointless? Ha! You are the exact reason why companies push sub par battery life and consumers accept it.
24 hours is minimal at best. 48 hours should be the "standard" in watch battery technology for "smart watches" considering it does less than half of what a smart phone can do.
Hope your watch battery dies when you need it most.
No one I know is close to using Moto360 in heavy use for a whole day. Must be living in some alternate dimension, or has a very special view of what heavy use means.
The small apple watch main body has around 10.4 mm plus 2mm for a 30mm dimeter protusion. The Moto360 has 46mm diameter and 11.5 m thick.
The Moto360 would need to be 8.3mm thick to have the same volume as the smallest Apple watch. So, the smallest watch is 39% smaller. The bigger one is much closer in volume to the Moto360 but still slightly smaller.
I'm guessing the bigger watch will have a battery life last longer than the smaller one. If the small one lasts all day, then that would mean the bigger one would last 20-30% longer; which would be very good.
I'm pretty sure that if you want the watch face to always show, the Apple watch will oblige and yes, you will have to live with the reduced battery time,. The Amoled screen and a dark background will help though.
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You do realize that he's talking about heavy use... If your not using heavily during all that time, you'll get your two days. Right now I can kill an Ipad air in 4-6h playing a first person shooter, yet most times I won't need to be recharged every day; only every 2-3 days. Why? Because that's not a typical use, and we all know that if it is used that way the battery will not last the day.
Use and efficiency of the tablet is what deterimines the ultimate limit of how long your device will last.
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What is heavy use for a SmartWatch, I suppose that question needs to be answered. I am not sure why some people get really bad battery life with the Moto360. On connectedly there are folks saying they are getting a full day with tons of battery to spare with always on off and the latest update.
It's really getting annoying that people keep saying "I can't do sleep tracking so I won't be buying this" It's a smart-WATCH that has some health functionality and does much much more than that, though not as much as many such as myself would like (e.g. 2 solid days of battery life and built in GPS even if it just tracks the location data points and needs the phone to interpret/map them after, at a minimum), and is relatively fashionable, the Pebble Steel isn't shabby but limited functionality, compared to a plastic fitness band which many of them do sleep tracking.
If you are having so much trouble sleeping go see a doctor since there may be something wrong that a fitness band it's going to tell you.
I'll be honest, these people are blatant liars or they don't know what they're saying about use; the tech of the chips, the battery and their use doesn't match any possible reality.
It's not so much the sleep tracking as the ability for it to act as a sleep cycle alarm clock that wakes you as you're emerging from deep sleep, which has been proven to improve alertness.
You can currently do this with an iPhone, but it requires burying it in the bed sheets, which is not always safe for a device that can get warm, and it's not always effective for people who have sleep partners or who allow pets to sleep on the bed. Something physically attached to the sleeper is more effective.
