Explore wearable devices, batteries become the biggest weakness

For wearable devices, batteries with longer battery life are critical.

Hosain Rahman, chief executive of hardware startup Jawbone, believes: "Computing is not a problem, and all wearable devices are limited by battery technology."

Although battery technology has not developed as fast as displays and other technologies, some leading wearable companies still hope to achieve a breakthrough in battery technology in the next few years.

Soulaiman Itani, CEO of Atheer Labs, said: "In the next five years, there will be other breakthroughs, such as remote charging, and it will have the next big leap forward to break its dependence on batteries. But for now, batteries are the biggest challenge. , It needs to be small enough and enough. "

Explore wearable devices, batteries become the biggest weakness

Itani believes that the current stage of wearable computing is comparable to the smartphone in 2005.

Itani said: "It is equivalent to the Palm stage, everyone needs to wait for the iPhone to come out." Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, but Palm Pilots have been available before then.

Apple CEO Cook has previously stated that the era of wearable computing is ready for exploration, but he refused to confirm whether Apple is developing smart watches.

Apple and Google have the most popular smartphone operating systems, have the strength to stimulate the development of new markets, and have the ability to control it because they have a large user base and application group.

Forrester analysts believe that if Apple enters the market, it will accelerate development, because Apple is a "market maker", any Apple equipment can sell tens of millions of units.

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