Apple Watch Battery Life Currently 'About a Day', but May Improve for 2015 Launch

Battery life is not the biggest problem with the Apple Watch.

The biggest issue I see is that, for most functions, it must be tethered to your iPhone to work. Whats the point of being able to use Maps, Messages, etc when you could just pull your phone out of your pocket and get a better experience on a bigger screen? It has no GPS chip so you can't even use it to track your hiking/running route like most GPS watches.

Clearly, it's been designed with untethered use in mind. But current GPS chips and cellular radios couldn't fit in to the Watch without unacceptable battery drain.

Buying this version of the Apple Watch will be a bit like buying the first generation iPad: There's some cool technology there, and a lot of potential - but you know that in a year or so there'll be a second generation that's thinner, has better battery life, and has built-in cellular data and GPS.

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Bet you it gets thinner before they increase the battery life on it.

It's a cool tech device, looks nice. Bravo to the engineering and design teams and everyone involved that brought this to life.

But it's still not my cup of tea, I may purchase one in the far future but I probably won't be wearing one in the coming years.

too little. It needs at least 2 or 3 days.

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Having a watch that works for more than a day at a time. Unreasonable, isn't it?

2 to 3 days would be acceptable.


1 day is just to short for a watch. Better add a wind up feature :)

Or you can charge it during the day and use it for sleep tracking ;)

You should be able to get a "battery wrist strap" which would give you a week of charge.

Once a day is fine to me for a first gen device.