Moto 360 Review
Battery LifeWhat about battery life, though? I shared some thoughts on battery life a week ago, and those thoughts have not changed. The Moto 360 has two display modes – Ambient Screen on or off. If you keep Ambient Screen on, your device will stay awake, dimly lit, all day long, so that you can quickly glance at it from any angle to check the time, just like a normal watch. The battery (320mAh) and processor (an ancient TI OMAP 3) together are not good enough for the device to last for more than 10-12 hours with this mode on. I would advise you leave it off. If you leave Ambient Screen off, your watch will last you all day, from the moment you wake up and take it off the charger until you take it off at night and go to bed. With Ambient Screen off, not once has the Moto 360 died on me in a day and left me stranded with a dead device on my wrist. On most days, I take the watch off, check the battery percentage remaining and typically see at least 15%.
So here is the deal. As with any smartwatch, you need to learn how to optimize it. A smartwatch isn’t supposed to replace your smartphone. It’s supposed to be an extension of it, to help you quickly view information before deciding if it needs more attention (which would mean pulling your phone out). A smartwatch is there for quick voice replies to texts or messages, seeing calendar appointments or new emails as they roll in, navigation here or there, and some fitness tracking. It is supposed to help you efficiently manage your time with your phone, to help you decide if items need action now or later. If you approach your smartwatch in that manner, you will get all-day battery.
Other Android Wear watches currently have better battery life than the Moto 360, there is no denying that. But in the end, they aren’t seeing 2-3 day battery life either. While the 360 may see 20-25 hours of use and need charging at night, others need nightly charges as well if you want to see them last throughout the next day. So in the end, all Android Wear watches need nightly charges.
Is battery life on the Moto 360 bad? No. Is it great? No. It really is somewhere in the middle, but again, it will last you a full day without worry.
PerformanceThe Moto 360 is powered by a TI OMAP 3 processor, which is the same processor used in 2010’s DROID 2 and Motorola’s previous smartwatch, the MOTOACTV. It’s old, slow, and power hungry. We still aren’t sure why Motorola decided to use this tired old processor to power their beautiful smartwatch when everyone else in the game is using a modern day Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, but I can’t help but mention how disappointing that fact is. The Moto 360 doesn’t need to do much, yet you will often find stuttering in the UI when swiping or scrolling between cards and activating voice actions. It doesn’t lag all of the time, but the lag is real. The “jank,” as Tim would put it, is real.
If you were rating performance on the 360, you could probably put it somewhere in the middle, bordering on semi-bad. That’s not to say that the 360 is ever unusable, because again, it doesn’t need to do much other than show cards, allow you to swipe between them, and be prepared for voice actions. The 360 just isn’t as fluid as one would like from a smart device in 2014. I guess chipsets from 2010 aren’t ready to leave 2010 behind.
This post has been edited by SyathibiyMegat: Sep 17 2014, 05:55 PM 
Jun 27 2014, 10:35 AM, updated 11y ago
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but price? 
cool.. I guess its going to be later then sept 19th since its already on backordered just minutes after launching lol.
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