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Originally Posted by jyl
The best battery life of the current smartwatches, Samsung Gear 2, has been reported at 2-3 days with light use. The worst, Moto 360, has been reported at <12 hours. (Not counting Pebble.)
My hope is that Apple is tuning power consumption, so that the battery life will be longer at launch than it is today, and that it can at least beat the Samsung.
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I don't have a Gear 2, only a Gearfit. The Gearfit turns the screen off. When you turn it to look at it, it will auto turn on for a few seconds.
The SW2 keeps part of the LCD operational all the time, but with the backlighting off. You end up with a "black and white" display of the watch face all the time. Pressing the button on the side turns on the backlighting. Pressing the "home" button brings up the other functions.
Both of them will pop-up messages (SMS, E-mail, Facebook, etc.) and allow review. Both allow you to answer the phone, but neither is a two-way communicator. The Gear 2 can do this. The SW2 does have a microphone which allows use of Google Voice.
One neat application for the SW2 is Camera control. It forwards the camera image to the phone and allows operating the shutter. I also like the QR code display.
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