Now that the Apple Watch is here the curious among us would like to know everything about it. We do know 99% of the facts, the one missing was the official battery size of the Apple Watch. Granted, each product is set up to get the maximum amount of lifetime out of its battery – so size might not be everything.
Still the mystery of the Apple Watch battery size has now been solved thanks to the tear down experts at iFixit.
The Apple Watch officially ships with a tiny 205mAh battery for the slightly smaller 38mm case size. An Apple Watch runs out of juice, on average, after about 18 hours of normal use. It lasts anywhere from three hours if it’s making a battery-taxing call, to 48 hours if it’s performing simple time checks.
The 42mm Apple Watch has longer battery life, according to Apple, but it’s likely to be marginally bigger in size. It takes 1.5 hours to recharge it to 80% and 2.5 hours to reach the full 100% again. To put the 205 mAh size into perspective you will have to consider it’s Android counterparts:
– Android Wear’s longest-lasting watch, the Sony Smartwatch 3, boasts a 420mAh battery with a day and a half of battery life.
– LG G Watch and and Samsung Gear Live debuted with bigger batteries of 400mAh and 300mAh, respectively, for truly all-day and almost-all-day battery life with conservative use.
– The LG G Watch R and imminent LG Watch Urbane have upped the LG’s battery size to 410mAh. Moto 360’s battery specs give it a 320mAh battery.
– ASUS ZenWatch packs a 370 mAh, and the forthcoming Huawei Watch is set to ship with a 300mAh battery.
All things considered the Apple Watch battery size falls into the chasing pack. Currently nothing beats the Sony smartwatch (except the Pebble watches). It is all relative though, the battery life will be dependent on the user and the integration of apps with the smartwatch software.
Source: TechRadar
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