New Delhi, July 29 -- LONDON - Samsung put out two new watches at Unpacked this week, and for once the numbers actually mean something.

outdoor athletes who have watched their wrists go dark at noon will notice immediately. Samsung is pairing that with an 800mAh battery, a 35 percent increase over the previous generation, inside a body the company says is 12 percent thinner than the original Ultra.

The Watch Ultra2 runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite, a chip departure Samsung has long resisted. Whether Snapdragon's power efficiency holds up against Google's Wear OS over the long haul will not be clear until units are in consumers' hands. Samsung declined to quote expected battery life in hours, which tends to mean the answer is com...