Move over Qi-charging – every smartwatch should have third-party battery bands

By USB or by wall outlet, our gadgets receive energy and store it in their batteries. Once they’re unplugged, they’re immediately powering through your day. That is, if they can last as long as you do. And in the case of wearable technology, where battery capacity only goes so far as the technology inside of it and the limited physical footprint, sometimes they don’t.With discharge cycles lasting anywhere between 18 hours and seven days, we’re not excited with having ...

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Alcatel Onetouch Watch hands-on: cheaper, smaller, just as round (Video)

If 2014 was the year that smartwatches started getting more legitimate, 2015 is already looking like the year that wearables mature even further. One of the first wearables announced in 2014 was by Alcatel Onetouch, a manufacturer that’s managed to fit a round screen (something that would have had our jaws drop had we seen it a year ago) into a chassis that stays ultra-affordable – at least, compared to other devices like the Moto 360. The company let us try out the product at CES 2015, so here’s our Alcatel Onetouch Watch hands-on and initial impressions video.The Watch is ...

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