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Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M by xenonite on Thursday January 17, 2019 @07:35PM (#18936011)
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
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Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M by billfruit on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:13AM (#18939383)
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 +.
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Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M by xenonite on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:49AM (#18940570)
This sounds really good. If one rather likes to stick with Apple's ecosystem, an exchangable or external battery could help much, too.
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Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:43AM (#18937939)
This is insanity. Just buy a FitBit!
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