Apple Watch Series 4 Has Battery With 4% More Capacity Than Series 3, Says iFixit
The first Apple Watch was “revolutionary,” but the updates since were “mostly minor,” until the debut of the Series 4, said right-to-repair firm iFixit in a teardown analysis Monday. The Series 4's battery has 4 percent more capacity than the…
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Series 3, despite having a case that’s 6 percent thinner, it said. The “taptic engine” inside the device “takes up a lot of room” that could have gone to a bigger battery, but Apple “seems to feel physical feedback is very important,” it said. Though the first-generation Apple Watch had internal components that seemed “awkwardly placed and unpolished by Apple standards,” with the Series 4, “they really painted the back of the fence,” it said.