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The big take-away: In the end of the day, the watch battery is there just to shuffle these .PNGs around. When Apple realizes how to avoid that, the wat
by donohoe 11y ago
The big take-away:
In the end of the day, the watch battery is
there just to shuffle these .PNGs around. When
Apple realizes how to avoid that, the watch
will last for a week instead of hours.
- DiabloD3 11y agoExcept Android Wear watches are built essentially identically, and only get about a days worth of life, and don't do any of this crazy shit.
- andrewaylett 11y agoAndroid Wear watches typically have the screen always on, and in the case of the OLED one (LG Urbane) I've got that means bright enough to see my way through a dark room. I usually wear mine overnight (with the screen off) for sleep tracking, and after 23h it's usually around 50%. I'd be quite happy suggesting you'd get two full days' use out of it, especially if you don't keep it awake all night.
- nostrademons 11y agoYeah. Pebble does get a week of battery life, however. The distinction between them and AppleWatch/AndroidWear is that the Pebble uses an E-ink screen that consumes no power when it doesn't change. That makes me think that the display is the biggest power drain on a smartwatch.
- mavhc 11y agoIt's not E-ink, it's a transflextive LCD
- megablast 11y agoThis is ridiculous. Even if you don't use the screen the watch still only lasts less than 2 days.
- DannyBee 11y agoExcept he provides no evidence this is true, and in fact, it's almost certainly 100% not true ;-) Hint: the power draw on these watches is not from drawing. On phones, with powerful CPU's, the display is usually 10x the draw of the CPU (depends on the CPU). On a watch, what do you think that ratio is?
- exabrial 11y agoI have this weird feeling his statement might have been a joke, rather than to be taken literally as an engineering calculation. Nawh, I'm probably wrong.
- lionet 11y agoToday I learned that even HN trolls may not always understand a concept of trolling. It was indeed a joke. (author).
- DannyBee 11y agoAs a joke, it's stupid. Because it is basically "look at these idiots drawing pngs". Except they aren't idiots, because if it worked, helped them develop faster, and doesn't actually matter, it's actually probably the right thing to do. So it just makes him look ignorant.
- monochromatic 11y agoJokes are funny when they contain an element of truth. There's a difference between hyperbole and being wrong.