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I don't know why anyone cares about week long battery life. It would give me literally no advantage. I take my watch off when I go to sleep, so I simply put the

I don't know why anyone cares about week long battery life. It would give me literally no advantage. I take my watch off when I go to sleep, so I simply put the charger on the table near my bed, and that's where I put it. It's no more effort to charge it than to not charge it. I can understand 2 days since you might stay at your girlfriend's house or something, but mine already can do 2 days anyway.

brlewis 10y ago
I don't know for smartwatches in general, but for Fitbit people like to track their sleep and also not leave steps uncounted, so there's really no good time to recharge.
tolien 10y ago
> battery life. It would give me literally no advantage. I take my watch off when I go to sleep Can't do that if you're using the watch for sleep tracking. I've got into the habit of putting mine (an Apple Watch Series 2) on charge when I get up and leaving it there till I'm about to leave. Other than the odd top-up (if I've been using the Workout app and thus the heart rate sensor), no problems. More battery life would be good though - if it used to be worse with the original AW, it's not hard to see how that would be a problem.
crb 10y ago
One of the great functions of a smart watch (or other fitness wearable) is sleep tracking. If you have to take it off overnight, you can't do that. I charge my Pebble once a week. Before that, wearing a bog-standard digital watch, I took it off ~never.
3poundkilograms 10y ago
As a Pebble user, I sleep with my watch on as it wakes me up in a much gentler way than any audio alarm does. However, having a week long charge is also about more than just being able to avoid charging it at night. It also means that the remaining battery capacity (wear, age) will matter less. Is your battery dying, with only 50% of the design capacity left? Who cares, the watch still lasts for days. Not only that - the slow discharge also means that the battery will take ages to even experience reduced capacity. The Apple Watch, on the other hand, sprints through the battery charges, and will both be completely intolerant to reduced battery capacity and reach reduced battery capacity faster. ... So yeah. It matters.
- esMazer 10y ago
  I also sleep with my watch for alarm and the sleep tracking!
sametmax 10y ago
Uses case: - you are often in different places from night to nigh (have a lot of friends, a scattered familly, a job on the move, etc). - you have no brain and forget often to charge your stuff - you are fed up (or too lazy, or both) to have a 6th stuff to put on your night stand every freaking day - you want it to be still usable after the battery wears off, and not just half a day like most smart phones after 2 years - you have a busy party night life - you work night shifts, or several days in a row without going back home - you want to put you watch in a drawer, forget about it, and get it back 2 days later, still usable. You can manage all that with a little preparation, but the point is, you should not have to.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
> I take my watch off when I go to sleep This is where you differ from many (probably most?) watch wearers.
- muratsu 10y ago
  I think people of a certain age might prefer taking their watches off when they go to sleep because that's how it was supposed to be. Some watches are also heavy.. You can damage the watch if you wear it at night or accidentally wake your significant other.
  - gnicholas 10y ago
    How exactly does one damage a watch while wearing it in bed? Also not sure how wearing a Pebble would wake a spouse/SO. A heavy gold watch might, but Pebbles are very light and low-profile. And the fact that the alarm vibrates to wake you instead of beeping means you'll not wake anyone else up when your alarm goes off.
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      Exactly. I have a Pebble. My SO also has a Pebble. We can sleep together just fine, without taking them off.
- abritinthebay 10y ago
  I would say the inverse. The only people I know that leave a "watch" on are sleep trackers. Which is a tiny tiny niche
  - mercer 10y ago
    Really? That's surprising. Back when I wore a watch (over ten years ago), I only took it off for showers. Part of the appeal was being able to leave it on at all times and not have 'yet another device that needs special instructions before sleep'.
this-dang-guy 10y ago
Well there you go. It's not a decider for you. But for me, I camp, hunt, hike, fish, and travel constantly. I spend more often than not 3-4 days away from power in a given week.
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cmiles74 10y ago
Keep in mind that overall battery life will decline over time. I had a Moto 360 and after two years it could barely make it six hours on a charge. Even if my Pebble's battery life declines by 50% over the same two years, that's still 3.5 days on a charge!
jeromeof 10y ago
Well I use the Sleep tracking feature which I find very interesting (though probably slightly inaccurate). I find that the only time I don't wear my Pebble Time is when I am having a shower and in those 10-15 minutes I can fully top up the charge on the PT, which I find is a killer feature. Basically, its more/less constantly charged, I wish other Watches (Android, Apple) would implement 'fast charging' to replicate this feature, as I hate having to think about charging any device.
fragmede 10y ago
Can you admit there might be other use cases than yours? I have a Fitbit and one of the biggest reasons for me is its sleep tracking, which totally doesn't work if, um, I take it off to sleep. As a result I usually end up charging mine while I'm showering. Unfortunately, if I forget to do that when I hop into the shower in the morning (which easily happens when I haven't had enough sleep and pre-coffee), I very much appreciate that my Fitbit's battery lasts more than a single day.
rjain15 10y ago
I would vote for a Pebble or any smart watch which can charge with Body heat?
takeda 10y ago
"I don't need it therefore no one else needs it" I personally like watch that is low maintenance, I don't want to worry about having it charged. As others mentioned you can use watch to wake you up. I also use my pebble to track my sleep. Another thing that is often ignored is that if battery doesn't need to be frequently charged it will also last longer (battery life is measured in charging cycles). Sadly this might be the reason why Pebble has issues, their watch is quite good, so when they released second version of Pebble Time, I decided not to buy it because I was still happy with mine that I got 1.5 years ago.

brlewis 10y ago

I don't know for smartwatches in general, but for Fitbit people like to track their sleep and also not leave steps uncounted, so there's really no good time to recharge.

tolien 10y ago

> battery life. It would give me literally no advantage. I take my watch off when I go to sleep Can't do that if you're using the watch for sleep tracking. I've got into the habit of putting mine (an Apple Watch Series 2) on charge when I get up and leaving it there till I'm about to leave. Other than the odd top-up (if I've been using the Workout app and thus the heart rate sensor), no problems. More battery life would be good though - if it used to be worse with the original AW, it's not hard to see how that would be a problem.

crb 10y ago

One of the great functions of a smart watch (or other fitness wearable) is sleep tracking. If you have to take it off overnight, you can't do that. I charge my Pebble once a week. Before that, wearing a bog-standard digital watch, I took it off ~never.

3poundkilograms 10y ago

As a Pebble user, I sleep with my watch on as it wakes me up in a much gentler way than any audio alarm does. However, having a week long charge is also about more than just being able to avoid charging it at night. It also means that the remaining battery capacity (wear, age) will matter less. Is your battery dying, with only 50% of the design capacity left? Who cares, the watch still lasts for days. Not only that - the slow discharge also means that the battery will take ages to even experience reduced capacity. The Apple Watch, on the other hand, sprints through the battery charges, and will both be completely intolerant to reduced battery capacity and reach reduced battery capacity faster. ... So yeah. It matters.

esMazer 10y ago
I also sleep with my watch for alarm and the sleep tracking!

sametmax 10y ago

Uses case: - you are often in different places from night to nigh (have a lot of friends, a scattered familly, a job on the move, etc). - you have no brain and forget often to charge your stuff - you are fed up (or too lazy, or both) to have a 6th stuff to put on your night stand every freaking day - you want it to be still usable after the battery wears off, and not just half a day like most smart phones after 2 years - you have a busy party night life - you work night shifts, or several days in a row without going back home - you want to put you watch in a drawer, forget about it, and get it back 2 days later, still usable. You can manage all that with a little preparation, but the point is, you should not have to.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

> I take my watch off when I go to sleep This is where you differ from many (probably most?) watch wearers.

muratsu 10y ago
I think people of a certain age might prefer taking their watches off when they go to sleep because that's how it was supposed to be. Some watches are also heavy.. You can damage the watch if you wear it at night or accidentally wake your significant other.
- gnicholas 10y ago
  How exactly does one damage a watch while wearing it in bed? Also not sure how wearing a Pebble would wake a spouse/SO. A heavy gold watch might, but Pebbles are very light and low-profile. And the fact that the alarm vibrates to wake you instead of beeping means you'll not wake anyone else up when your alarm goes off.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Exactly. I have a Pebble. My SO also has a Pebble. We can sleep together just fine, without taking them off.
abritinthebay 10y ago
I would say the inverse. The only people I know that leave a "watch" on are sleep trackers. Which is a tiny tiny niche
- mercer 10y ago
  Really? That's surprising. Back when I wore a watch (over ten years ago), I only took it off for showers. Part of the appeal was being able to leave it on at all times and not have 'yet another device that needs special instructions before sleep'.

this-dang-guy 10y ago

Well there you go. It's not a decider for you. But for me, I camp, hunt, hike, fish, and travel constantly. I spend more often than not 3-4 days away from power in a given week.

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cmiles74 10y ago

Keep in mind that overall battery life will decline over time. I had a Moto 360 and after two years it could barely make it six hours on a charge. Even if my Pebble's battery life declines by 50% over the same two years, that's still 3.5 days on a charge!

jeromeof 10y ago

Well I use the Sleep tracking feature which I find very interesting (though probably slightly inaccurate). I find that the only time I don't wear my Pebble Time is when I am having a shower and in those 10-15 minutes I can fully top up the charge on the PT, which I find is a killer feature. Basically, its more/less constantly charged, I wish other Watches (Android, Apple) would implement 'fast charging' to replicate this feature, as I hate having to think about charging any device.

fragmede 10y ago

Can you admit there might be other use cases than yours? I have a Fitbit and one of the biggest reasons for me is its sleep tracking, which totally doesn't work if, um, I take it off to sleep. As a result I usually end up charging mine while I'm showering. Unfortunately, if I forget to do that when I hop into the shower in the morning (which easily happens when I haven't had enough sleep and pre-coffee), I very much appreciate that my Fitbit's battery lasts more than a single day.

rjain15 10y ago

I would vote for a Pebble or any smart watch which can charge with Body heat?

takeda 10y ago

"I don't need it therefore no one else needs it" I personally like watch that is low maintenance, I don't want to worry about having it charged. As others mentioned you can use watch to wake you up. I also use my pebble to track my sleep. Another thing that is often ignored is that if battery doesn't need to be frequently charged it will also last longer (battery life is measured in charging cycles). Sadly this might be the reason why Pebble has issues, their watch is quite good, so when they released second version of Pebble Time, I decided not to buy it because I was still happy with mine that I got 1.5 years ago.