Anyone come from an Urbane Second Edition?

[John Dodson1]

It looks even thicker than the Urbane second edition. Is it or are are the pictures misleading?

How is the battery life in comparision?

I thought the Wear 2100 chip allowed for a slimmer profile with better battery life. I dont understand why the Sport is as thick or thicker the the Urbane considering it has the newer chipset and smaller battery.

 

[Richard Servello]

It looks even thicker than the Urbane second edition. Is it or are are the pictures misleading?

How is the battery life in comparision?

I thought the Wear 2100 chip allowed for a slimmer profile with better battery life. I dont understand why the Sport is as thick or thicker the the Urbane considering it has the newer chipset and smaller battery.

First full day. Seems great to me. But I only need 1 day to be happy. People that demand 2+ days might not be happy.

 

[John Dodson1]

I have an Urbane now with the 580ma battery. I typically end the day around 60% so even with it I would have a hard time getting a second day out of it. I would just want to be confident I'd get a full day out of it even if I turn lte on for one or two hours.

 

[Richard Servello]

I have an Urbane now with the 580ma battery. I typically end the day around 60% so even with it I would have a hard time getting a second day out of it. I would just want to be confident I'd get a full day out of it even if I turn lte on for one or two hours.

I'll have my sim this week... So I'll report back on LTE life.

 

[hagar852]

I have an Urbane now with the 580ma battery. I typically end the day around 60% so even with it I would have a hard time getting a second day out of it. I would just want to be confident I'd get a full day out of it even if I turn lte on for one or two hours.

LTE does have e a significant impact. Having it on for 1-2 hours won't be that bad if you just have it on to get notifications or just to be able to take a call. But if you actively use the connection like stream music, then you see battery consumption. For my testing, 10 min of streaming music over LTE will yield about 10% drop in battery usage. LTE does a job on battery if you tax it, but just having the radio on isn't too bad. One note, being in weak LTE signal area impacts it as well. Full signal areas is OK.

 

[John Dodson1]

LTE does have e a significant impact. Having it on for 1-2 hours won't be that bad if you just have it on to get notifications or just to be able to take a call. But if you actively use the connection like stream music, then you see battery consumption. For my testing, 10 min of streaming music over LTE will yield about 10% drop in battery usage. LTE does a job on battery if you tax it, but just having the radio on isn't too bad. One note, being in weak LTE signal area impacts it as well. Full signal areas is OK.

 

[John Dodson1]

Mine Urbane 2 is the same way. I was mainly curious if it would last a day with LTE on and off. Was wondering how the 430MA batter compared to the 580MA on the urbane 2.

 

[Richard Servello]

So here's what I'm discovering. If you are getting horrible life. Turn ON wifi. During my drive in to work I was draining pretty fast with only Bluetooth. When I got to work it said 8 hours left. Once I got here I got on wifi and now it's back to normal. And should easily last the day. Seems like Bluetooth is not good on the battery. Maybe an issue with le.