I am the Building Official for a local city. Constantly getting emailed building plans and site plans bigger screen will make it much easier ! finished the soak test and it has been officially released, it's just that it's a staged roll-out to reduce the load off their update servers. Everyone will get it eventually within a couple of days.
Big question is how much power a smart watch needs. Bluetooth is very low, and the CPU / GPU doesn't need to be very powerful. ZOPO has already showed with the ZOPO ZP998 that they can do some stuff in a very low power mode. The big power hog would be the screen. As it is a round screen, it is obviously not standard, has anyone heard what technology.
If that is for an air vent and using a rechargeable zinc-air battery? batteries are very energy they use atmospheric oxygen as part of the chemical reaction. Currently the ones on the market are not rechargeable, but there has been some research lately on perfecting their recharge.
Raw materials to produce batteries are much cheaper than lithium ion. It is actually possible for it to bring the cost down. Its also a safer technology, about as dangerous and toxic a standard alkaline battery.
I've had sporadic issues with Google Search. Most of the time, if I ask it a question, the phone freezes up and after about a minute of being non responsive, it reboots. It's gotten worse in the last few days.
HDR option is best for still/landscape photography usually when trying to get action shots or anything with people in HDR you get a real bad blurring or distorted pic because it takes multiple shots rapidly and layers them. Surprised this came out as well as it did in HDR mode.never really had a problem with battery life w/ 4.4 so if battery life changes are minimal I probably won't even notice. The primary reason I've been anxious to get the 4.4.2 update is I've been coveting the camera improvements. I don't own a camera other than my phone so I'd like it to be the best it can be.
I love the little animation when you switch from camera roll to timeline or to albums. Not sure if it was already there but just now noticing it.would check for a rogue app that is keeping the phone awake or consuming background resources. I have Verizon and battery life is great since the update a few weeks back.
While hearing aid batteries are there is work done on perfecting rechargeable zinc air technology. The production cost should not be radiacally different once scaled up.