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GreenEngineering3475 @lemmy.world

6mo ago

Smartwatches can easily last seven years; I want software support to match

www.androidauthority.com Smartwatches can easily last seven years; I want software support to match

Smartwatch software support lags well behind smartphone pledges, even from Google and Samsung, but this really shouldn't be the case.

Smartwatches can easily last seven years; I want software support to match

Smartwatch software support lags well behind smartphone pledges, even from Google and Samsung, but this really shouldn't be the case.

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My coros sports watch is on year 5, still days of battery life, no bugs, behaves as bought. Granted it has limited non sport tasks, but I think 7 is entirely possible Edit days of battery if I use it for gps sports tracking once a day, for over an hour, which I normally do
- Days of battery life...
  My casio G-shock, a no-bullshit über-tough, good looking, practical time-telling device, is on YEAR SIX of the original battery, and comes scuba diving with me.
  Keep your days-of-battery watch, I'll keep mine.
  
  No one is asking you to switch your watch. Different people have different needs.
  
  My post says precisely that
  
  It clearly comes off as a dig at watches like mine, oddly hostile
  
  That's cool. I'll revise my statement too.
  I get weeks of battery if I never used it for gps tracking, sports stuff.
  Days if I go on a run or a hike every day, which I usually do.
  Totally different machines

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