Battery LIfe Matters

A couple of days ago I lost my faithful Livescribe 3 pen. This was a device I had ups and downs with. The most annoying feature (or the lack of) is the missing migration path for captured notes from one phone / tablet to another. And no way to back up the database. The notes live in the pen and in a phone (after transferred), but there is no "Cloud" or any other option to backup / export / import the data.

But even being fully aware of this problem I decided to order a new one. I have actually been using this gadget quite often and when I started recollecting the reasons why... one important popped up immediately: it used to work for days (or even weeks) on a single charge. I actually never had a situation the pen was discharged and did not capture the notes. The experience would have been completely different if it required a daily charge. It'd be too much of a hassle.

Similar experience I have now with the Garmin fēnix watch. It works for 10-14 days on a charge. With display always on and notifications popping up all the time. I dropped the Moto360 for a single reason: it required a daily recharge, not being able to survive a transcontinental plane trip (a day that lasts for 36 hours).

Battery life matters.

It is a completely different league of a device when it lasts 10 days instead of 1 day. Or a month instead of a week. We used to have phones that lasted for a week. But now they are gone and the company that was making them is gone. I hope one day they will return. Like the Phoenix from the (Galaxy) flame?