poor battery life?

[danguyf]

Engadget is reporting that in their testing they only got five hours of moderate use before Google Glass shut down.

I really hope that they got a defective unit or something!

The Looxcie gets 4 hours, always on, with a smaller battery and no display.

I reeeeally hope Glass is capable of all day use, at least by the time it is released to the masses.

 

[nattoleon]

five hours means a whole day, because you can not look at the little screen of google glass for long time. your eyes will not feel comfortable .
so it can last a day. just as the smartphone we use.

 

[danguyf]

It's not five hours of screen on time; it's five hours period. Meaning that if I put on Glass before leaving for work at 8am, with moderate use it's dead by 1pm.

Five hours of use is all day. Five hours of use for a few minutes here and there is most certainly not.

 

[weehooherod2]

I wish the left side of Glass also had a battery in it. That way it'd have 3 times as much battery life and would be far more useful.

 

[timgreen123]

I wish the left side of Glass also had a battery in it. That way it'd have 3 times as much battery life and would be far more useful.

that would be more heavy than now. and heavy glass will not make you comfortable

 

[FadedLite]

Battery Life is great

If you aren't demoing to every person who stops, you get about 6-9 hours. That's at least what I get. I am checking email, times articles, and such. Also, I'm browsing reddit in class (they came out with an app about it. Look at it at http://glassware.socaldevs.com) (I'm a college student)

 

[danguyf]

Nine hours sounds much better. That I can live with. Thank you!

 

[FadedLite]

More in the middle truthfully

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[danguyf]

7.5, then? Tolerable...

 

[jezus101]

6 hours is fine for me as that is how long school goes for, and i can always charge at home, maybe google should look into a better battery or something? we do need a good 9 hours

 

[danguyf]

The battery life is only going to get better, between tweaks to the software and improved battery technology in each subsequent device. Still, the sooner it's better the better, as I see battery life being the biggest factor potentially holding back the proliferation of possible uses of Glass. A device that can be always on is going to support some very different apps from a device that you're using minimally for fear of running out of power.

 

[michaeljimmy]

i think i will purchase it while support 3g and battery can last for whole day

 

[johngreener]

9 would be perfect. everyone who wear google glass is good husband , because they will come home for charge battery everynight.

 

[danguyf]

To try to extrapolate, as the BGR article does, is laughable. Never-the-less, here's their gloomy FUD:

http://bgr.com/2013/05/24/google-glass-battery-life-sergey-brin/

 

[samcrocr]

It's an explorer edition It's for developers and early testers) It is not the final product. Why would you base your argument on a review that was done on a developers device. It is pointless.

 

[danguyf]

Yeah. To take a developer beta and an off-hand remark and, from that, sythesize the idea that the battery life is poor and always will be is ridiculous.

 

[johngreener]

long battery leads heavy device. maybe we should consider carry a portable battery source with us, then link it with our glass all the time

 

[danguyf]

long battery leads heavy device.

Only at present. As time passes, greater battery capacity will be fit in the same size/mass. It's probably too much to hope for large gains in a single year, but I'm hoping that the commercial version of Glass has a battery that is at least somewhat better.

maybe we should consider carry a portable battery source with us, then link it with our glass all the time

That would rather defeat the purpose, I think.

 

[johngreener]

yeah. you r right. at present maybe google do not wanna us use google glass too much for one day
and it is not health maybe

 

[jezus101]

Maybe Google will take use of the new sulfur battery discovery?

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---------- Post added at 06:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:48 AM ----------

The new sulfur battery is ment to hold 4x more charge in the same mass/area/size of a Li-On battery, and its less flammable

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