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Who is buying an Apple Watch with 1 day of battery life?
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As someone who's been using a smartwatch for over a year (a pebble), I'll probably get an apple watch. I'm not crazy about the "one day" battery life, but I'm hoping that apple will be be able to improve it before release.
A "tethering" requirement doesn't bother me, because I pretty much keep my pebble and iPhone together. They're already effectively tethered, even though they don't have to be.
A "tethering" requirement doesn't bother me, because I pretty much keep my pebble and iPhone together. They're already effectively tethered, even though they don't have to be.
You're trusting what someone said on Twitter? You wrote that at 8:30 AM. How in the world would someone get their hands on it that soon?
Who is buying an iWatch with 1 day of battery life?
I'm not saying it was an individual. I follow tech sites via twitter. That's what I meant.......
I'm not saying it was an individual. I follow tech sites via twitter. That's what I meant.......
If it truly lasts a day, from when I leave my home to when I go to bed at night then sure. I don't need to sleep with a watch on and I don't imagine that I'd want to anyway.
16 - 18 hours is what I'm hoping. The last thing I want is to be carrying around dead tech on my wrist. I'm waiting for gen. 2 regardless, but I hope this is something they took into consideration.
16 - 18 hours is what I'm hoping. The last thing I want is to be carrying around dead tech on my wrist. I'm waiting for gen. 2 regardless, but I hope this is something they took into consideration.
I will definitely buy one and don't think that it will be a day power reserve. I guess it will be more than that.
Secondly I wonder how the charger will be. In the video it shows a magnet charger like Mac but how it will be in
Watch ? Any guess ?
I think I am go with the same model that Johnny and Tim wore
Secondly I wonder how the charger will be. In the video it shows a magnet charger like Mac but how it will be in
Watch ? Any guess ? I think I am go with the same model that Johnny and Tim wore
No, it's different. With iPhone, you can still use it while it's charging. I frequently have mine charging in the car while I'm driving and charging off my MacBook Pro or iMac on my desk when I'm working and I talk on it and do other things during this time.
With the Apple Watch, it has to be removed from the wrist to charge, so it's out of commission during charging, which presumably takes hours.
I personally don't see buying one as it needs an iphone, to me the 4" iphone is too small for my big hands. I don't see using something smaller when I have to have the phone anyway. It has nothing to do with battery life for me, just not my cup of tea. To those it appeals to I will only say go for it, I only speak for myself.
I would if I'd have extra money hidden somewhere. But between the iPad mini and MacBook Pro I have already bought this year and the iPhone 6 I'll be buying soon, I'm way over my budget for this kind of stuff for a couple of years now.
I'll just wait a year for the redesign/update, Apple always seems to get the second generation done much better.
I'll just wait a year for the redesign/update, Apple always seems to get the second generation done much better.
Well, I (and we) didn't know anything about iWa...Apple Watch when I wrote that post
However, you're still limited with your iPhone when it charges, as you can't move around with it while it charges.
We don't know about the Watch's battery live, but I might actually think it could last a few days with a heavily optimized OS and custom hardware. It probably runs Bluetooth LE (low-energy) to sync with iPhone, and did Apple say anything about it being always-on? I can't find anything on the website about that, but if it's not always-on, it'd probably have a good battery life.
We'll wait and see.. More info should come up the following months (I don't think Apple have even finalized the hardware for release, since they didn't provide any raw specs).
- You can "move around" with the iPhone as it charges. I have a compact USB battery just for this contingency; if I forget to charge my iPhone at night, I just plug it into the battery during the day and carry them around until the phone is charged. For me, that's not a big deal. The battery that I'm using isn't the smallest thing, but I want extra charging capacity. It's slightly bigger than my iPhone 5, but I want a battery that could give me 3-4+ full phone charges -- I could get something a lot smaller, if I only needed one full charge.
- The keynote implied that the current battery life is around "one day". It's unclear if that's a working day (e.g., 8-12 hours) or 24+ hours. Hopefully, apple will be able to increase the battery life by release day. (24+ hours would be acceptable, but anything less -- like the moto 360 -- would be problematic.)
- From the keynote, the electronics are always on (implied, in order to handle notifications at any time), but the display is normally off and turns on the display when you raise your wrist (actually mentioned in the intro video). Hopefully, that will allow apple to get more than one day out of the battery, but I wouldn't bet on it, given all of the other electronics packed into the apple watch. We'll see.
I will buy one one release day. Im using the Martian Notifier at the moment. I couldn't live with out a smart watch now. In my business I seldom hear or feel my phone ringing/vibrating but the watch gets my attention every time. The Martian feels and looks cheap but gets the job done. Cant wait to strap on the WATCH. Very excited
WATCH. Very excited
1 day is the standard. The gear watch get 2 and the pebble gets about 5. I think a day is fine...it just has to make it though that day. My nexus 5 is god awful. A day really means 13 hours.
That's what I thought...
makes sense to charge it in the evening with everything else that requires a charge. lol.
Charging stations/areas in the house are starting to get ridiculous though.
phone, ipad, laptop, watch...
I have two watches that are solar as well as automatically connecting to the time server each night to stay accurate.
I plan on buying the Apple watch anyways since I don't plan on buying this years iPhone.
Improvement Over First Watch
The first timepieces to be worn, made in the 16th century in the German cities of Nuremberg and Augsburg, were transitional in size between clocks and watches. These 'clock-watches' were fastened to clothing or worn on a chain around the neck. They were heavy drum shaped cylindrical brass boxes several inches in diameter, engraved and ornamented. They had only an hour hand. The face was not covered with glass, but usually had a hinged brass cover, often decoratively pierced with grillwork so the time could be read without opening. The movement was made of iron or steel and held together with tapered pins and wedges, until screws began to be used after 1550. Many of the movements included striking or alarm mechanisms. They usually had to be wound twice a day. An iPhone was not required.
The first timepieces to be worn, made in the 16th century in the German cities of Nuremberg and Augsburg, were transitional in size between clocks and watches. These 'clock-watches' were fastened to clothing or worn on a chain around the neck. They were heavy drum shaped cylindrical brass boxes several inches in diameter, engraved and ornamented. They had only an hour hand. The face was not covered with glass, but usually had a hinged brass cover, often decoratively pierced with grillwork so the time could be read without opening. The movement was made of iron or steel and held together with tapered pins and wedges, until screws began to be used after 1550. Many of the movements included striking or alarm mechanisms. They usually had to be wound twice a day. An iPhone was not required.
Ditto. I charge my iPhone and pebble smartwatch every night, and so I'm used to this.
The big issue is that, if I forget to charge (e.g., I fall asleep on the sofa), I can easily make that up by charging my iPhone using a USB battery. I don't even have to make up charging my pebble, because it has a multi-day battery; I just charge it as usual the next night.
My big question mark with the apple watch is that I probably can't do that. I'll probably have to somehow charge the apple watch during the day, which means that I can't be using it for some amount of time. Now, if it recharges quickly, I can probably do that while getting ready in the morning. If it doesn't, that's going to be a problem.
We'll need TWO of them
From my own experience, I hate it when smartwatches only last a day. Eventually you just get tired of taking care of the little critter.
So perhaps what we need, is to do like the old Jaguar owner's joke about needing to buy two Jags, so you'd always have one to drive while the other is in the shop being repaired...
Just buy two (or more) Watches. Keep one charging all the time.
Solves everything, including not having to decide on just one model or color
From my own experience, I hate it when smartwatches only last a day. Eventually you just get tired of taking care of the little critter.
So perhaps what we need, is to do like the old Jaguar owner's joke about needing to buy two Jags, so you'd always have one to drive while the other is in the shop being repaired...
Just buy two (or more) Watches. Keep one charging all the time.
Solves everything, including not having to decide on just one model or color