Reserve strap for Apple Watch can extend your battery by 30 hours!

The final details for the Apple Watch battery band have just been announced, and apparently it will add an additional 30 hours of battery life to the device. The Reserve Strap will ship at the beginning of November and it will cost a massive 250 Dollars.

In an update on its website, the company announced that the final design for Reserve Strap will offer more than 30 hours of extra usage, or 2.7x or 167% of the Apple Watch’s built-in battery.

One of the biggest complaints about the Apple Watch was the need to charge it once a day for most users. The new Reserve Strap will bump that up to once every three days or so, and even up to a week for some users that don’t use the watch that much.

Not only is the Reserve Strap one of the first battery straps for Apple Watch, but the product will be one of the first to tap into the device’s not-so-secret hidden port, opposed to using Apple’s own magnetic, inductive charging solution. The company has said before that using the port will allow for faster charging while allowing them to avoid interference with sensors on the back of the watch in their design. Plus it is the only band that charges the Apple Watch while you wear it!

The Reserve Strap will come in three colours; white, grey and black. It will be available for the both the 38mm and 42mm Apple Watches with the same specs for both, in terms of extra battery life. It will also boast the same water resistance as the Apple Watch.

The company will also send a micro USB cable for charging the strap, charging won’t require disconnecting the strap from Apple Watch, as well as a special tool for removing the door on the hidden port that Reserve Strap connects to for charging.

For what it does, the Reserve Strap definitely seems like a huge chunk of change, but for significantly extending the battery life of a device that is extremely expensive, it may be worth the premium for some users.

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