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Different ideas for different people. The general concept is, either it lasts for weeks or it lasts for one day, if it lasts for 3 days you'll forget to charge
by AgloeDreams 7y ago
Different ideas for different people.
The general concept is, either it lasts for weeks or it lasts for one day, if it lasts for 3 days you'll forget to charge it, if it lasts for weeks it's okay if you forget, a small reminder can tell you to charge it enough for a day in a few minutes.
The trade off is insane in comparison, the Apple Watch is capable of a ton of things you just can't do in a longer battery-life product, things like phone calls, cellular connection, sharp graphics and quality voice replies. Meanwhile the garmin products have fantastic readability outdoors on their low res, low power transflective LCDs.
They simply are on a different roadmap and each roadmap has its own constraints.
- baddox 7y agoI would almost prefer the daily charge over even weekly charging. My Kindle lasts for what seems like multiple weeks, and I have it run out of battery pretty much every cycle. Yet I almost never get anywhere near low battery on my smartphone.
- baroffoos 7y agoMy pebble watch gives me warnings when it has less than a days worth of charge. The only issue is I usually get the warnings when I am not at a charger. An improvement would be to only give the warnings when I am at home.
- jackcodes 7y agoIf it lasts for 3 days, that means I can hammer it with full brightness and cellular, and not have to worry about it not lasting a full day because the marketing speak doesn’t live up to my usage limits.
- chubbyrabbit 7y agoThat's exactly what I do with my apple watch. They do last 3 days with normal usage.
- arrrg 7y ago18h is a conservative estimate, anyway. It assumes heavy use. Apple doesn’t bullshit with battery estimates.