iFixit teardown revealed that there’s a 300mAh battery inside the Moto 360 while Motorola advertised 320mAh battery capacity. This created a lot of controversy, even though 20mAh is not that much, besides capacity doesn’t have to mean anything, the watch might do just fine as far as battery goes and fulfill Motorola’s promise. Either way, it was just a matter of time when Motorola will respond, that happened quickly. This is Motorola’s response:
The typical battery capacity for Moto 360 is 320mAh and the minimum is 300mAh. In the mobile industry, sometimes both the minimum and typical capacity is listed on the battery, with the typical capacity quoted as the official battery size. Both figures are included on the batteries of our Moto X, Moto E and Moto G devices. In the case of smaller devices, we aren’t always able to list both figures. For Moto 360, we only had room for one figure and choose to list the minimal capacity of the battery. We see how this can be confusing and we will look into ways to add the typical capacity as well in the future.
iFixit teardown findings were blown out of proportion, which tends to happen on the internet these days. Luckily Motorola addressed it quickly and with a bit of luck it won’t hurt the sales of Moto 360 that much.
Source: Computer World
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