ASUS Pushing For One-Week Battery Life In Its Future Smartwatches
That's in stark contrast to Apple's goal, which is to get its Apple Watch to last all of 19 hours before needing a charge. Active use would be far shorter -- Apple is aiming for 2.5 hours to 4 hours when running an application nonstop.
How will ASUS be able to offer dramatically improved battery life compared to Apple? The trick is in using a simplified chipset and mobile operating system designs..
"The ZenWatch is defined by us as a companion of a smartphone, and we think it still has a lot of room for improvement," ASUS chairman Jonney Shih recently told reporters. "As a companion device, its central processing unit and operating system should be more simplified than the current version, so that I can use it for up to seven days on one charge, rather than for just two days."
ASUS is referring to its first generation ZenWatch that it launched in Taiwan a month ago. It sports a 1.63-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, curved cover glass, Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, and a battery life of up to two days.