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you may need a spare charger for that Apple watch I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update folks we need to talk about the Apple watch I have some news that may be hard to hear it may even be hard to believe but Apple's first SmartWatch is not going to be perfect I know everyone's salivating over the coming Apple watch in all its gold trim glory but there's the possibility it could be plagued with the same problem of most smart watches and that's battery life although Apple has yet to reveal full battery life information about the watch sources told the news site 9to5 mac that the battery life is falling short of apple's goal to have it work for 19 hours of mixed active and passive use but how much shorter is unknown the report says it may just last two and a half hours with heavy a pues that's like if you can't stop checking apps and four hours for exercise tracking we won't know for sure until we put it through battery tests when it comes out in the spring and I'm sure it won't be long before we start getting battery pack cuff accessories no seriously there are battery charger wristbands right now on kickstarter in other mobile news US carrier t-mobile is stirring things up again this time it involves your credit score when you see a commercial for a discounted or free smartphone whether it's t-mobile or another carrier you can only get that deal when you have a well qualifying credit score it's all in that a TBD print on those commercials well t-mobile says more than half of Americans don't have a credit score that's good enough to get the deals and those folks have to pay more upfront and overtime or go prepaid but let's say you didn't have good credit but you still signed up for t-mobile well if you paid your bills on time for a year you get upgraded and you can qualify for all the best offers without a credit check like a loyalty Thank You of sorts t-mobile is the fourth place carrier but with all these recent wild promotions like data roll over it's gaining customers and it's on the path to passing Sprint t-mobile is growing so fast that on Friday sprint began targeting t-mobile Sprint has a new promotion that promises to pay t-mobile customers two hundred dollars for a smartphone trade-in plus up to three hundred fifty dollars to cover switching costs in other news car makers are paving the way for more high-tech cars ford just opened a research lab in Silicon Valley with a focus on improving car internet connections and self-driving vehicles but before we get to those self-driving cars other car makers are focusing on getting us to buy electric vehicles BMW and Volkswagen partnered with the company ChargePoint to build out at least 100 more charging stations along the east and west coast which can get a card to eighty percent power in less than 30 minutes that your tech news update there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey