Use the snapdragon w5 gen 1, no more tensor on the wearables for now.

  • IdleSheep
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.