there is nothing wrong with needing to charge it daily. most people charge their phones nightly anyway, and I'm guessing most people will have another outlet to charge it right next to their phones.
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What's wrong with "all day" battery life
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I'm not saying that this is not useful, but I'm curious what you can do with the data? At one point I was interested in measuring how I sleep, but then I thought about it, and realized that I don't know of much I can do to control my sleep. I go to bed early, and wake up before my alarm.
Vector it with other data: What did I eat the night before? How much did I work out? When did I work out? What time did I actually fall asleep? If I want to be extra pedantic, I can track if I have trouble falling asleep and sleeping well after Game of Thrones.
That makes sense.
Since my children stopped coming into my room and waking me far too early in the morning, I generally fall asleep within minutes, and sleep through the night.
So I guess it would not be terribly useful to me.
I also think it's absurd to expect a smartwatch to have the same battery life as a standard one. But I think it's equally absurd for it to last not even a single day. My MacBook Pro can go for days between chargings, as can my phone - but a watch can't? I'm not expecting it to last forever, but seriously, less than a day is ridiculous.
I want the Apple watch battery to last as long as my phone does so I can charge them together. My Pebble lasts 5 days right now and it annoys me because I always forget to recharge it. Every night charging is a no brainer for me. Besides, how good is the watch without the phone?
Well, I'm going to assume you are a light/average user correct? Because I'm somewhere between an average/heavy user and I have almost never made it to the end of the day without my iPhone 6 or MacBook Pro being low on battery (20% or less). That's extremely impressive that you can get multiple days on a single charge.
So, as a result, I'm going to assume that if you DID get an Apple Watch, you should be able to get it to last a couple days, based on your usage with your phone/Mac. One of the reviewers did state that their watch lasted a day and a half, didn't they? It all depends on the individual and how much they use their device.
It means that you can't use Apple watch when you sleep to monitor your sleep patterns and set the alarm to wake you up in the morning
Why can't you just charge it a little before you sleep and then use it at night? I don't understand the uproar. Every electronic device has to charge at some point.
Batteries have a limited life in terms of the number of charge cycles they can survive, and when it approaches the end of that life then it, like my iPhone 4S, will no-longer last a full day without being recharged.
The maximum number of charge cycles of current Macbooks, for instance is 1000, while for earlier models, it was only 300. If the Watch had only 300 charge cycles and needed to be charged every day, there would be no happy Watch customers after a year. If it has 1000 charge cycles, then we know it will be junk in less than three years. Most of us probably expect that anyway, as we are used to replacing our phones every two years, but it's certainly something to think about when we are spending this much money.
Sure, but charge every 18 hours..? 18 hours is not "all day" battery life - last time I've looked, day had 24 hours, perhaps Apple managed to change that with the release of Apple watch...
As it stands, it has the worst battery life out of all smart watches available on the market today
The Apple Watch has to fit all of its components, including the battery, into a form factor of less than one cubic inch.
The iPhone 6 Plus has a battery roughly the size of an iPhone 4.
I'm not sure you understand how batteries work.
Sure, but charge every 18 hours..? 18 hours is not "all day" battery life - last time I've looked, day had 24 hours, perhaps Apple managed to change that with the release of Apple watch...
As it stands, it has the worst battery life out of all smart watches available on the market today
Sigh. Well, I guess everyone has a right to complain about something.
Since you're unhappy with the battery life, I strongly suggest you buy a different smartwatch. Hopefully you'll be happy with a pebble or Samsung watch.
The one thing I'd like from the watch is sleep tracking, and a battery that had a more rapid partial charge. The MS band charges to 80% in a half hour, with a full charge at 1.5 hours, and lasts a day and half, so it can be charged while you are in the shower or while you are sitting at your desk at work, and still be used for sleep tracking.
Even if used a silent alarm or sleep tracking, you would still need to charge it during the day eventually.
The one thing that I will actually miss about my pebble is Silent Alarms. It's so convenient for both me and my college roommate when I have a silent alarm. Nonetheless, I have lived without it so I will live without it again and I am so excited to receive my 
Watch Sport!
Watch Sport!
Because it's a WATCH ffs. I have a Quartz Omega Seamaster.. it's been running on the same battery for 4 years. Most watches go years without charging. Yes, I know that a smart watch does a lot more.. but comparing years of life to 18 hours for a watch says it all... it's irritating under scrutiny of comparisons.
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My surge protector is already filled with chargers and other regularly used devices. Swapping in another plug on a daily basis would be obnoxious.
Not only that, but there are times when I forget to charge my phone. I don't want something else that I can end up forgetting to charge.
Some people just won't be happy. I've always said this: If Tim Cook can manage with the battery, I'm sure we all can.
He's one of the, if not the busiest CEO's in the world and I can't imagine how many emails, calls and notifications he gets every day, all day.
That's progress for you. The one distinction I don't believe a lot of people make is that despite its name the Watch is not a watch, shocking I know.
It's a very small, fully contained computer system. Which happens to get called a watch because we wear it on our wrist and well lets be honest, watch sounds a lot better than small fully contained computer system.
I remember my first mobile phone some twenty odd years ago, one thing that sticks in my mind about it is that despite being bigger than the actual phone the battery was utterly appalling. You sure as heck didn't get anything like 18 hours from it, you were lucky if you got 18 minutes of use.
Perhaps a better comparison would be to my first watch, which I got when I was four (thats 36 years ago for those keeping count
). I loved that watch, still got it somewhere. But the point I'm ambling slowly towards is that it also had an all day battery life. Well I say battery life, there was no battery, it was mechanical and it needed wound every single day or it would die on me.The point I'm rather badly making is that since the dawn of timekeeping there has been an element of manual intervention needed to keep the tracking of time ticking along, well maybe not the sundial.
An hourglass needed turning every hour, clocks needed constant winding and adjustment to keep in time as did watches, many still do. But with all of these things technology progresses, my current watch is kinetic and very accurate so it rarely needs intervention from me at all.
Apple and others will improve the battery life of their smart watches in time, of that there is no doubt. But until then, for me 18 hours or more (or less) will do just fine. When the battery runs out, well I've got my hourglass to keep good time. Damn, time to turn it over again.
I really shouldn't type things out before I've had my medication in the morning
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I think a smartwatch lasting less than a regular watch is less of an issue than Apple managing to only get 18 hours of battery life with the screen on for 2.5-4 hours when other manufacturers can get 3-10 days with the screen permanently on.
You may like this then. Last more than a year on a coin-cell. No need to wear anything.
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