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I keep a charger on my desk at work and if I remember I top it up sometime in the afternoon, if not I charge it in the evening. I do miss the week long battery
by wlesieutre 7y ago
I keep a charger on my desk at work and if I remember I top it up sometime in the afternoon, if not I charge it in the evening.
I do miss the week long battery from my Pebble Time, but having to charge it daily hasn't been a real problem. The main nuisance is needing to bring the proprietary charger when I travel for a couple days.
- GordonS 7y ago> proprietary charger Yikes, that would be a total deal-breaker for me. I have enough chargers and cables to remember as it is. Kind of difficult to see why they'd use anything other than micro-USB anyway?
- probablyexists 7y agoI could see making this argument with a nice cable like USB-C, but micro-USB is legacy garbage.
- wlesieutre 7y agoIt’s an inductive puck thing that the watch aligns itself to with magnets, honestly a lot nicer than needing to plug and unplug a cable. Feels like it will last longer, and it’s much more reliable than Pebble’s spring loaded charging pins were. Would be even better if it could charge on standard Qi pads, but no such luck. Maybe there’s something about the size of the coils, who knows?
- toxik 7y agoApple could have made ”mini Qi” if they wanted to, but they don’t want to. It’s been their MO for decades.
- brians 7y agoIt can charge on many, but not all, standard qi pads. I’d swear that launched years ago. I use one when car-camping.
- GordonS 7y agoAh, OK, that does make a difference. I have a Plantronics headset that has a similar charging point, and it is great to be able to almost throw it onto the charger and just have it work. But - the heatset also has a micro USB port built in, so if I don't have the charging point (or the charging case, which it also came with), I can just use a USB cable. This seems the best approach, IMO.