Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by xenonite on Thursday January 17, 2019 @07:35PM
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Well in my experience, charging the Apple Watch takes about half an hour, about the time it takes to prepare in the morning. If you rather require 100% coverage, how about buying two watches? I think that redundancy might be your answer. There even is an Apple support page about it: https://support.apple.com/HT205792
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by billfruit on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:13AM
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This is when the Amazefit Blip and the related Xiomi smart watch is having 15days operating time between battery recharges. There are some garmin bands which does not require recharging, because it runs on two watch type button cells which will last 6 months +.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by xenonite on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:49AM
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This sounds really good. If one rather likes to stick with Apple's ecosystem, an exchangable or external battery could help much, too.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:43AM
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This is insanity. Just buy a FitBit!
To be clear, I don’t mean fitness tracking - I don’t care about that. I mean all the other variables that a device on my wrist could track that could be vital to preemptive diagnosis or explaining a new issue. The need to charge the watch nightly was a total dealbreaker - many of the variables I want to track are during my sleep.
All the other watch features are worthless to me - I have my phone for those. I want a “watch” to focus/differentiate on the things only a device attached to my skin 24/7 can do.