Personally I dont want any watch with at least 1 week of battery time with heavy use.
My current watch has 5 fucking years of battery time. Some are more or less working indefinitely.
I like that my watch looks nice, but I also like that its functional. Running, on a bike, what not, its actually much more convenient than grabbing a smartphone.
What I don't get, is why current watch makers don't make a smartwatch from their point of view:
a regular watch, with connectivity to the phones, that can do a couple of things like vibrate in a variety of ways - OK - citizen actually tried that and it sort of work but there is no attention to details.
You want the watch to reliably vibrate if u get a msg or notification that you setup. You want it to vibrate differently for navigation depending if you gotta go right or left according to your phone (so you dont need to grab the phone while on a bike for example!).
Neither work well on the citizen, and the connection eventually times out, that sort of stuff. Too bad.
> Personally I dont want any watch with at least 1 week of battery time with heavy use. My current watch has 5 fucking years of battery time. Some are more or less working indefinitely.
Fair enough, though the same could be said about smartphones.. i.e.
Personally I don't want any cell phone that has less than a week of battery time with heavy use. My current dumb phone has weeks of battery time, even when used heavily. I'll never get a smartphone until battery life is....
While that statement makes sense, it doesn't appear to have stopped many from moving to a smartphone.
Do you take your watch off at night.. leave it on a bedstand?
How much harder with it be to tap the magnetic power thingie on? Not at all.
When Apple Watch 2.0 comes out, will battery life be longer? Quite probably.
This is just the beginning. If people can get used to charging their phone 1-3x a/day, they can plug their Watch in at night. Not perfect, but I don't think this is a deal breaker.
Personally all I need is a full day. I don't sleep with my watch. So putting it on a stand to recharge it isn't an issue with me.
And current watch makers can't make a smartwatch. Just like Apple couldn't make a mechanical watch. Completely different worlds that just happened to meet in the middle.
No, a full day just isn't enough. What about the time when you come home wasted from too much work/partying and you just forget to charge the thing. Then you wake up, decide you don't want to wear it because you just want to chill on the beach/park/anywhere, and then you put it on on the next day, and it is dead. And to use it you need to charge it for an hour or so, so you can't wear it on that day.
My current watch has 5 fucking years of battery time. Some are more or less working indefinitely.
I like that my watch looks nice, but I also like that its functional. Running, on a bike, what not, its actually much more convenient than grabbing a smartphone.
What I don't get, is why current watch makers don't make a smartwatch from their point of view:
a regular watch, with connectivity to the phones, that can do a couple of things like vibrate in a variety of ways - OK - citizen actually tried that and it sort of work but there is no attention to details.
You want the watch to reliably vibrate if u get a msg or notification that you setup. You want it to vibrate differently for navigation depending if you gotta go right or left according to your phone (so you dont need to grab the phone while on a bike for example!).
Neither work well on the citizen, and the connection eventually times out, that sort of stuff. Too bad.