Use the snapdragon w5 gen 1, no more tensor on the wearables for now.
Under water butthole?
I mean… You have my attention, but to what end are we implementing this new tech?
No, it’s Ultra-Wide Butthole. It’s part of a new set of standards, Global Open Access Technology, Second Edition.
Good lordt.
I really like mine, but the battery left a lot to be desired. For day to day I just use one of the smaller fit bits now that have like 10 days of battery. Now I only take the watch when I’m going on trips or driving long distances since the notification system is far superior. If they came with a decent battery life bump I’d be all over a new iteration.
I have used mostly Xiaomi bands, I’m currently wearing a Redmi Band 2. It is not a smartwatch, it’s just a fitness tracker, but it can also control media, take photos and receive notifications, and lasts 10 days between charges. That’s all I care about (for now). When smartwatches batteries get better I may consider a full fledged one.
Not having to charge it every 1-2 days would be great. Batteries degrade over time and I don’t want to buy a new one every 2 years.
Interesting.
I jumped into smartwatches back with the Asus Zenwatch. It was fun but terrible UI, terrible battery life, terrible processing speed. It spent must of its life in my dresser drawer.
A couple years ago, I got the Samsung watch 4, and it was a whole different story. Snappy. Great UI. Great battery life.
I haven’t seen any killer features that would make me upgrade or change brands to a new watch yet. UWB Is definitely cool, and I love to see competition, and I’m definitely open to upgrading, but even 2 generations on, in not seeing any new must-have killer features.
…Samsung watch 4, and it was a whole different story. Snappy. Great UI. Great battery life.
Do we have a different Samsung watch 4? Or a different expectation of great battery?
I got one last year, and it’s my first smartwatch. It lasts one day. Having to charge it every night makes it a burden. Of it hadn’t been so expensive, and if I didn’t want to get the body tracking It offers, I’d simply leave it on a drawer.
My friend has a Garmin of some kind. It’s bulky, but o kind of like that. He reckons his lasts nearly a week. That would be my idea of great battery.
Maybe your battery is a dud. I get through a day of very heavy use with 50% battery remaining.
Yeah maybe. But even that is hardly exceptional battery life. And then the watch will be less than 50% by the time you’ve slept with it.
Exactly. Then imagine how bad things will get once the battery degrades, which will be a lot quicker with the constant charging. My Garmin lasts 2 weeks on a single charge in “smart watch” mode.
I’ve got the Galaxy Watch4 and I love it. I get nearly two days of battery, which is fine by my standards, and the UX is snappy as hell.
WearOS is just a lot more taxing on the battery than what Garmin has because it does a lot more. The upside is that you get an entire ecosystem of 3rd party apps/services you can install.
Apple’s own apple watch doesn’t last much longer unless you basically disable everything.
Smart watches that work like a phone are inherently always going to have worse battery than smart watches that are only programmed to do a very narrow set of things.
I was about to say something similar.
I have an Apple Watch Series 7. Average battery life is ~30 hours. Less if it runs on LTE instead of Bluetooth.
That watch is more expensive than the Galaxy Watch 4. At launch and second hand.
Now you can get a good/mint condition used Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 46mm LTE for around ~$150 on Swappa. The same tier Apple Watch Series 7 on Swappa goes for ~$225 on Swappa.
And the Apple Watch doesn’t even have blood pressure like the Watch 4 does. Granted, you have to do some sideloading to get it working in the States until FDA clears it, but the hardware is still there.
UWB is nice, easier finding of wearables if lost :)
On the notion of batteries, I have a new, galaxy watch 4 LTE. With mobile network always on and everything else off (Bluetooth, wifi, location) I’m getting 16hrs of battery.
Is that expected?
It will get better after a couple of days. Make sure you install all updates so it will not try to update in the background.
I unfortunately dont have one. But you ask about that in the galaxy watch community here.
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Give this away as a preorder for the 8 Pro please.
Now just make it in a larger case size and I might consider one
Hoping for a bundle with the pixel 8, but not holding my breath. Not even sure I want a smartwatch yet tbh, but it does look nice…
Given what Google did to Fitbit I would never buy a Google branded watch on principle.
What did they do to Fitbit. I haven’t noticed any changes
What did they do to Fitbit?
They nuked the Fitbit community. No more achievements.
