Vodafone, Google Look to Extend Wear OS Smartwatch Battery Life

Vodafone, Google Look to Extend Wear OS Smartwatch Battery Life
A logo of Google is seen at its exhibition space, at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 15, 2022. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
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LONDON—Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of a smartwatch by reducing the “chatter” between the device and the network, a bigger drain of energy than screen brightness and other settings targeted by low power modes.

The mobile operator has developed an API (application programming interface) that enables apps and operating systems, such as Google Android’s Wear OS, to reconfigure how they communicate with its network, Vodafone’s director of network architecture Santiago Tenorio said.