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Tootie, while the battery life is short of AirPods, it is at par with many other earbuds. Since our module is independent of the earrings, we do plan to offer m
by Aurum197 6y ago
Tootie, while the battery life is short of AirPods, it is at par with many other earbuds. Since our module is independent of the earrings, we do plan to offer many styles of earrings. That's part of our business model: that the same customer will buy multiple earrings per module. About the weight: that was our big concern as well. But we did make a few that are lighter than some standard dangler style earrings.
- wavefunction 6y agoPerhaps you could integrate the battery into the earring part so while you're wearing one pair you can hot-swap to a fully charged pair. I like the concept though, very interesting!
- Aurum197 6y agoIt's an idea we considered seriously. But ultimately we decided that we wanted our customers to have the option of throwing away the module when it got outdated, but be able to hang on to the jewelry especially if they buy a precious metal version.
- wavefunction 6y agoWell, hopefully they will recycle the batteries but it's a good point!
- akiselev 6y agoGreat work! First person I showed your site to said "Why didn't I think of that?!", which is always a great sign. If you can compete with or beat most other earphones for battery time, you're already set. Unless you can identify some low hanging fruit, I wouldn't invest much more time into power management because getting Apple-like power management without degrading the connection and user experience is really hard. The two work against each other unless you've got the resources to run large tests to compare changes and perturb towards a solution. I'd recommend focusing on sourcing. The manufacturers who make cells for Apple and auto manufacturers bin their output just like other silicon fabs and only give Apple/automotive customers the best cells (selling the rest to less discerning clients making consumer electronics, ecigs, etc.). On the extreme, I've seen batches of 18650s from the same manufacturer vary from 2Ah to 3.5Ah depending on what quality of Samsung cells they got. You could probably eek out 10-30% more life that way, but it's hard to predict the final outcome during R&D.
- Aurum197 6y agoThank you, Akiselev! And that's exactly where we are: trying to figure out sourcing.
- tpetry 6y agoBinning could be done too. Selling a normal and a pro version, with the pro one receiving the better batteries they got from their supplier
- klausjensen 6y agoWhat does binning mean in this context?
- Aurum197 6y agoThanks tpetry. I wasn't familiar with binning.