Can one rant about Wear OS here since it’s technically still Android?

When Samsung was making watches on Tizen, they released products like Frontier (boasting upto 3 day battery life), original Galaxy Watch (boasting upto 4 days battery life). Cue they switched to Wear OS with GW4 and with the 40mm variant, the battery life doggedly remained at a pathetic 1 day with AOD on.

Even with release of newer generations like Ultra, they are barely hitting 3 days with ~590mAh battery. Why is Wear OS such a battery hog?

I own a Galaxy Watch 6 and the watch OS uses like 6 GB storage and 1+ GB in perpetual RAM. Is it really so that displaying time and running couple of apps in the background takes more memory than GNOME 46?

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    19 days ago

    When I have £500 to spare, I’ll get that. Until then, my £60 Hauwei watch will do.

    This is a very excellent comment, given the context and that this is an Android watch discussion and mine is not running Android.

    What Huawei Android smart watch is fucking 60 Euros? I’ll buy it tonight.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      It’s not running WearOS, it’s just the most value I could find for £60. It has up to 2 week battery life, sleep and activity tracking, support for some third party apps if you get the GT 3 or up.