Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?
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Not conductive? Isn’t that a good thing?
For a charging port?
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The 7th gen iPod Nano which you're referring to (not the 6th gen the commenter above posted, which had a rated 24 hour battery life) had a 200 mAh battery.
A lowly Garmin Forerunner 230 like the one strapped to my wrist right now has a 150 mAh battery and achieves five weeks of battery life with notifications enabled (which I did not "forget") and the BLE radio twittering away all day, GPS time and position updates, activity tracking, and the screen displaying content all the time. Not 30 hours. 840 hours.
Just acting as a plain watch with the connectivity turned off Garmin claim it'll last 12 weeks (2016 hours).
I should not have to point out to anyone that it is physically impossible for an iPod to achieve a significantly shorter runtime on a larger battery without consuming more power in the process.
Now imagine at best halving the physical space for that hall battery by adding a waterproof USB-C port and associated PD electronics - which at that scale would mean significantly more than a 50% reduction in battery life.
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For a charging port?
For filth in a charging port, yeah.
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While it would be lovely if watches could support Qi charging, they are just too small to make it work effectively
Ha ha ha.
I can charge my wife's Samsung watch off Qi on my phone. We had to learn how AND do it while on vacation when the Samsung inductive rig for it was left at home.
Worked like fucking gangbusters.
This article is shit.
I have tried to charge my Samsung watch on all kinds of Qi devices. They don't work. The newer Samsung phones can charge them, but only because they have a separate set of coils that support watches.
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I was looking at a garment descent watch for scuba diving. They don't use usbc directly on the watch because of the water rating
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When my latest Fitbit dies, I'll be taking a look at the UNA watch.
USB-C charging and repairable.
The only thing lacking is some Fediverse presence.
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Oh damn that's unfortunate, wake me up when it's a real product
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Didn't know this was a feature so I just tried it and... my watch thinks my phone is "gym equipment" and asks for permission to send my heartrate to it. How do you setup charging?
Did you enable "wirless power sharing" in quick panel settings/device settings? It won't charge another device without turning it on manually
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I have an apple watch… it charges over ether and can teleport me to Mars ocasionally, on a full charge.
Can’t wait to smash it with a hammer, same as my iphone.
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But the other person said they don't know anything about electronics and that means they are a straight shooter and that means they are more correct
Aaaaaauuuugh
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Aaaaaauuuugh
That's fair
