Smart watches biggest bottleneck is the battery life

To 2017, the global wearable fitness tracking devices and smart phone market scale will reach 45 million, and now includes the world's leading technology giants and electronics manufacturers have began to launch its own products to prepare for this new market areas.
Although the smart watches and other wearable devices market outlook is very uncertain, is now very popular in the state, but currently lives in ordinary consumers that they can not play a crucial role. Smart watch, for example, most of the intelligent design of the watch is not only ugly, but very heavy, due to the fancy electronic equipment from too close and unattractive to consumers.
In this week's 2014 New York City on wearable technology exhibition, Pebble Smart Watch Chief Product Specialist Myriam Joire said the reason for the smart watch now still not well developed, the culprit is actually from the battery section. "Battery is the greatest challenge currently facing wearable device you want." Myriam Joire said.

"Most of the smart watches are using a 130 Miliamp battery that smart to make a light bulb stick 30 minutes to one hour's time." And Pebble with most wearable device companies, are trying through a variety of ways possible to extend battery life, so now Pebble can stick a week's time. However, larger capacity battery means to increase the volume, this is not the consumers are willing to see.
Myriam Joire think flexible battery technology will be a strong push forward the smart watch market in the next few years, and allows them to play a greater role in the consumer's wrist.
"This is actually a relatively tough choice, either as Pebble uses the same low-resolution black and white monochrome screen, or to choose good effect colorful hours AMOLED screen, but also the response of consumption to improve." Myriam Joire said

Sophie Yu Technology starting thinnest smartphone color flexible screen

Sophie Yu Technology founder, CEO Liuzi Hong, compared with a year ago, Yu soft thin flexible display backplanes release, the release of the complete integration of the color flexible AMOLED displays only the front panel display, and Sophie woo independent development of intelligent mobile platform successfully docked, its overall thickness reduced by nearly tenfold, is the true meaning of "thin as onion skin" display.

According to reports, the most recent of the flexible display has a strong flexibility and stability, has a smaller diameter than the pen core can be freely curled telescopic shaft smoothly display video and animation, brilliant vivid color display.

Flexible displays have thin, light weight, curly hide, easy to carry, easy to fragmentation, pollution, energy saving, personalized fashion, etc., compared with the traditional flat panel displays, product design has a greater degree of freedom, the user experience also greatly improved. Meanwhile, the use of new technology (such as printing and roll-to-roll) Preparation of flexible displays, and more are expected to greatly reduce the cost of production.

Therefore, the flexible AMOLED display has been widely considered the industry following the cathode ray tube (CRT), LCD next generation of information (LCD) after the display technology, it may be widely used in the new smart phones, smart home, wearable electronic devices, etc. number of areas, and to people's lives unprecedented visual impact and application experience.

According to market research firm IDTechEx predicts that the global flexible electronics market will reach $ 330 billion in 2027. A major application direction that is flexible flexible electronic displays. IDTechEx in the latest release of the report predicts that the flexible display market will exponentially within the next decade of explosive growth.

The real significance of the flexible display is very difficult, need to address multiple aspects of dozens of materials, processes, structure of semiconductor devices, integrated circuits and system design and other problems, are indispensable. Therefore, the design and manufacture of flexible displays true meaning far beyond the display substrate material change or replace the intuitive concept of which a layer of material that simple. Sophie Yu Technology after a long painstaking research and development, and innovation from a comprehensive interdisciplinary materials, processes, devices, circuits, electronic systems design, has accumulated hundreds of intellectual property core technology was able to achieve a breakthrough.

Statistics show that soft-Technology from 2012 inception that China Shenzhen, Hong Kong and the U.S. Silicon Valley synchronization operations, is the first international professional in the new display technology, especially the flexible display research, design, development, manufacturing multinational start-up companies, its investment shareholders include a number of well-known venture capital firms and angel investors, including IDG Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, sonhwa capital, Alpha Wealth, Jack and Fischer Investment, source governance and investment.

Mid-2013, the world's thinnest display soft-technology mass production of flexible display backplanes. The soft-technology pioneered the world's thinnest, highest curl full-color AMOLED flexible display smartphone successfully docked with the application, but also to slightly weak global display panel market into the arm, will accelerate the industry reshuffle and industry upgrade.

Sophie-technology team in a number of international high-end R & D personnel and key management personnel graduated from institutions of higher learning abroad Stanford University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and worked at IBM, Applied Materials, Inc., Siemens, Foxconn, Agilent Texas Instruments and other renowned institutions.

Motorola's new machines support 15 minutes quick charge

Veteran mobile phone manufacturer Motorola has recently launched a new machine seems to accelerate the pace, just recently launched a new version of the moto X and moto G, which has not yet officially shipping the phones, but also the beginning of a new machine exposure. Recently, Motorola unveiled a model of its FCC database, its FCC identification number for "IHDT56PK1".



From the figure mark, the machine supports GSM and Veirzon global networks and fast charging capabilities, analysts believe it is related to the exposure before Motorola Droid Quark.

The aircraft high 143.49mm, width 73.33mm, the diagonal length of 154.49mm, than before the release of The New Moto X dimension slightly larger. In addition, other data show that the aircraft will be configured Motorola Turbo charger, which can be completed in 15 minutes charging cell phones. This is relative to the current focus on fast charge technology, is definitely a qualitative improvement.

According to previous news, the aircraft configuration also has good performance, equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, clocked at up to 2.65GHz, screen resolution of 2560x1440, size unknown, 3GB memory operations, 32GB built-in storage space, built-in 3500mAh battery, powered by Android 4.4 native system. Features moto X on the Droid Quark has continuity. According to the product line, which is likely to be the flagship series moto X relative to the larger screen.

Smart watches lead product positioning new controversy

The concept of smart watch is not just things in recent years. For example, Microsoft's 2004's SPOT, LG 2009 years GD910 watch phone, watch phone products Samsung's second paragraph S9110 2009 Motorola introduced MotoActv watch the end of 2011, are part of the implementation of the phone functions, but nothing special use. In other words, smart watches in the future is not the most powerful competitors within the industry, but the mobile phone as the core of mobile intelligent terminal functional impact.

If you just do a continuation of phone features, the phone can be a partial substitute for convenience under certain conditions, such as viewing messages, handle personal health information and observational data, photos and music listening and so on. But the continuation of these phone features, largely need to reduce the part of the user experience. After all, the above information browsing and e-mail handling, and audio-visual entertainment is the need to experience a certain size screen as a support. The Smart Watch screen is too small, the inevitable on the user experience will be a lot less, in this case, there are other smart watches targeting?
In fact, for positioning the smart watch, it is not no more to explore, everyone might want to watch the next smart big thing, Apple, Samsung, Google are busy building their own smart watch, but also as J.Gold joint Advisory president said that if only such concept as stated in the smart phone watch only as a second screen and input device, smart watches will escape the doom to fail, but wearable success.
In other words, you want to get rid of their smart watches doom, and will not become a joke, really become a core mission of its own products, it is necessary to focus on their functional mission, rather than simply doing the smart feature phones and other mobile devices extension or inlet and outlet of information, because the mobility of smart devices now have been very convenient, mobile phone, ipad, or even a smart bracelet and other wearable devices, the function will not be worse than a smart watch. And watch this in an era has gradually fade out of the functional mission circle, becoming a symbol of identity and status of the product, precisely because its function was centralized and alternative smart phones and other mobile devices.

So, for smart watches, the current is vital to solve this problem: how to not be furnished, but has become its own core functional requirements of a mobile terminal products. Of course, for some sub-groups, the smart watch may become a good product. Only if we change their expectations, change our perception of the entire wearable devices. Is not the function of the body to another part copied, but part of the wearable sensor devices as a private network; not just as a remote windows phone, but to play a greater value. In other words, the smart watch can act as a mobile data sensors and wearable devices play a similar function.

Smart Watch Now do a comprehensive intelligence service terminal, but other advantages to withstand conditions more convenience products, so if you do the next line of data and information services scene sensors, play smart wearable devices function, then whether because it kind of simple functions lost customer expectations.


Not necessarily, because the current smart watches have been given too much expectation, too many features added, and the functionality of these features and smart devices and mobile phones with great coincidence, the phone features a mobile terminal price and more under strong case, smart watches are not fundamentally get the user's favor, perhaps just a short freshness, can not bring lasting actual user experience. However, at present, neither Apple, Samsung or Google in the positioning of these are intelligent choice overall positioning service equipment, once go, unless smart watches can solve the cost-effective and a good user experience, otherwise the user will definitely not last meet expectations.