Fully featured smartwatches use bright, colorful displays to show everything they need to show, and in terms of physical limitations there’s not a huge amount of room inside the body of a smartwatch to pack in a particularly big battery. To be fair, it’s not difficult to see why manufacturers struggle with this. You can go away for a week or two without worrying about where your charger is. Take the solar-powered version of the Garmin Instinct 2, for example: through a combination of a monochrome display and a battery that can be topped up with sunshine, it’s capable of lasting up to a month between recharges. While it’s no great hardship to connect smartwatches such as the Apple Watch 7 up to a power supply every evening, once you’ve made use of a wearable that can go for several days on a single charge, it’s difficult to then go back. Analysis: the appeal of better battery life
We’ll bring you all the details as soon as Samsung makes these devices official.
How exactly the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is going to achieve this feat remains to be seen: it’s possible that there’s some strict battery saver mode to conserve power. This is where you can find information on battery status.
Certainly when it comes to fully featured wearables with full color screens, more than a day of battery life is unusual. The 'Battery' option on the 'About phone/device' menu will have text underneath it that specifies what exactly can be found by tapping the option. It would also put Samsung’s new premium smartwatch ahead of most other Wear OS smartwatches on the market in terms of battery life.
There’s good news as well from reputable tipster Ice Universe (opens in new tab), who says that the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is going to be able to reach up to three days of battery life – and considering last year’s model struggles to reach the end of the day, that’s a welcome improvement. Analysis: the appeal of better battery life.We currently expect the Galaxy Smart Tag to appear alongside the Galaxy S21 family of smartphones on January 14 and should land on store shelves shortly. As for pricing and availability, industry sources have suggested a MSRP of around EUR 15 to 20. Sone of the unearthed documents also note of two color options for the Samsung Galaxy Smart Tag – black and oatmeal. As such, it is being leveraged precisely as intended by Samsung and should be capable of delivering a distinctly “next-gen” positioning experience at up to a theoretical 400m indoors and 1000m outdoors, while also consuming minimal power.
That’s not entirely a bad thing, though, since the Galaxy Smart Tag is certified for Bluetooth 5.1 – an update to the familiar communication technology that specifically features signal direction functionality and is meant to power indoor navigation and tracking tags. As far as we managed to gather, the EI-T5300 has only been certified as a Bluetooth LE device, meaning that some of the more-advanced features speculated earlier, like UWB, LTE, and/or GPS are unlikely to make an appearance. The real question in regards to that was mostly how said tracking, positioning and reporting would be achieved. We are already aware that the Galaxy Smart Tag will be compatible with the company’s recent SmartThings Find feature. Rough translation aside, that paints a very familiar “Tile”-like picture. As per Samsung’s own description it is a: “Smart Tag which has button for find phone and loud.”. The Galaxy Smart Tag looks to be a thin device, powered by a single, replaceable 3V CR2032 button cell.
The South Korean certification authority actually has a whole schematic of the EI-T5300, among other things. We did some digging around and managed to piece together a much more complete picture from various sources. It can give you data from last seven days. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy, costs 29.99, and will arrive on January 29th. So you can monitor the complete battery usage data and analyse which app is the most heavy on battery. The new Galaxy SmartTag tracking device from Samsung lets you locate your lost keys, pets, or whatever else. It is a monitoring tool especially built for Samsung Galaxy devices. Boasting a larger display and a bigger battery than its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 is a smartly-priced wearable from a trusted brand. Information on the EI-T5300, as its official model goes, has been trickling-in over the past few weeks, but mostly in a fragmented manner and getting naturally buried by more-interesting news, like Galaxy S21 leaks. The second app called Battery Tracker tracks the phone’s battery usage. We’ve known for a while now that not unlike Apple and its AirTag, Samsung has been working on a smart object tracker, dubbed the Galaxy Start Tag.