Garmin’s New Smartwatch Has Battery Life That Laps the Apple Watch Ultra 4
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320-hour battery life with full health tracking reframes the tradeoff between features and endurance in wearables. If your product depends on continuous sensing, assume user tolerance for daily charging is dropping and design around multi-day—or multi-week—uptime.
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