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Samsung‘s Galaxy Watch 5 series offers excellent battery life, certainly much better than the Galaxy Watch 4. It appears the company will continue this trend with the Galaxy Watch 6 later this year. The Korean firm recently got the tiny power units for its next-gen smartwatches certified by its domestic regulatory body Safety Korea, and we can see they are larger than the batteries last year’s models packed.
Safety Korea recently certified two battery packs manufactured by ATL. One bears the model number EB-BR935ABY while the other is identified as EB-BR945ABY (via). These are the batteries that will sit inside the 40mm and 44mm Galaxy Watch 6 models (model numbers SM-R93* and SM-R94*, respectively). The regulatory body also shared photos of the tiny power units. While the photos are blurry, closer inspection reveals some information.
We can see that the EB-BR935ABY has a rated capacity of 295mAh and a typical capacity of 300mAh. That’s a marginally bigger battery than the one found inside the 40mm Galaxy Watch 5 (276mAh and 284mAh, respectively).
The story is the same for the EB-BR945ABY as well. It has a rated capacity of 412mAh and a typical capacity of 425mAh. By comparison, the 44mm Galaxy Watch 5 packs a 410mAh battery (typical capacity), with its rated capacity coming in at 397mAh.
As the numbers tell, Samsung is increasing the battery capacity of its next-gen smartwatches by about 5%. With improvements elsewhere — more power-efficient chipset, display, and software enhancements — the Galaxy Watch 6 may bring a substantial boost to battery life over current Samsung smartwatches.
Hopefully, Samsung will be fitting these bigger batteries in cases of the same size as last year. Any increase in case size would make them a bit too bulky. Maybe the rumored switch to a curved glass design freed up some space on the inside. We shall find out soon.
The Galaxy Watch 6 Pro is still missing
You might have noticed that we haven’t talked about a “Pro” Galaxy Watch 6 model so far in this article. That’s because Safety Korea hasn’t certified anything for it. Of course, that doesn’t mean the watch doesn’t exist. There’s still plenty of time for Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked event where it will launch the new smartwatches.
We are expecting it to hold the event sometime in August, with the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 being the stars of the show. We should come across plenty of leaks and rumors about these Galaxy devices ahead of that, so stay tuned.
