Moto 360: processor from 2010 and small battery

June 04, 2020

Motorola's Moto 360 is praised by the tech press for its attractive exterior – and criticized in terms of battery life and performance. The do-it-yourself experts from iFixit have now found out that there are good reasons for this when dismantling the gadget.

According to iFixit, the processor built into the Moto 360 is a single-core chip from Texas Instruments. The OMAP3630 has been around for a few years now. Already in 2010 he fired up the Motorola cell phone Milestone 2 – and is simply outdated by today's standards. Current Android Wear smartwatches such as the LG G Watch or the Samsung Gear Live, on the other hand, have a modern Qualcomm SoC, a Snapdragon 800.

The battery of the Moto 360 is even thicker: While Motorola specifies a capacity of 320 mAh, the battery inside the smartwatch is labeled with 300 mAh. LG's G Watch, for example, has a 400 mAh energy dispenser.

One according to current statement from Motorola the Moto 360 battery does indeed have a nominal charge of 320 mAh. For reasons of space, only the minimum capacity and not the maximum amount of charge was specified, which is not unusual at all. According to Motorola, this is the case for example with the Moto X, Moto E and Moto G smartphones.

So the criticism of the hardware of the Moto 360 ultimately remains "only" an outdated chipset, which could, however, do its part to ensure that the runtime of the smartwatch is considered "just acceptable" by many testers at best.

Source: iFixit (via)

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