Motorola listed the battery capacity of the Moto 360 as 320mAh when it announced its beautiful first smartwatch, but a teardown by iFixit revealed that the actual battery is a 300mAh unit instead. Despite the small discrepancy, buyers of the Moto 360 weren’t very happy, especially since reviews had said the battery life was already less than impressive on the watch, and Motorola has now offered an official statement to clear up the confusion.
According to Motorola, the capacity of the Moto 360’s battery ranges from 300mAh to 320mAh. Usually, manufacturers list both the minimum and maximum capacity of a battery on their devices (case in point: the Moto E, Moto G, or even the LG G3), but Motorola found itself lacking for space on the minute internals of the smartwatch and decided to list only the minimum capacity figure. Here’s Motorola’s official statement: That’s a pretty clear explanation, and should be enough to address complaints from owners of the Moto 360. Hopefully, Motorola will be more clever with its next smartwatch and choose a newer processor instead of the ancient TI OMAP chipset it decided to go with on the Moto 360, which is the primary reason the watch is offering battery life lower than the Android Wear smartwatches that came before it.
