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Apple Watch Screen Resolutions: 312 x 390 for 42mm Version, 272 x 340 for 38mm Version

ksuyen said:
OK times to get busy...

Let's start from Apps idea. Concept? Please list down what do you want to do/see on your watch according to this rule: "lightweight: accessible and dismissible quickly and easily, for both privacy and usability". Some of the ideas from http://appitventures.com/50-best-apple-watch-ideas/ are pretty neat.

1. A location beamer: 'here, I am alive...' when you are lost or have accident in unknown places (cons: need wifi/iPhone close by)
2. Next appointment in xx mins, notification through nudge (too common, I think there will be tons like this)
3. Drink water reminder, through nudge (same, too common)
4. Fart app. Tap watch face to send fart noise to iPhone for ultimate party pranks.
5.
6.
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chasemac said:
OK times to get busy...
4. Fart app. Tap watch face to send fart noise to iPhone for ultimate party pranks.
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ksuyen said:
You need to think the watch as the most personal device that is closest to you (on your skin) as opposed to your phone and the myriad of possibilities that the watch could do with that. It's akin to someone touching (nudging) you when you need:
1. reminder
2. notification
3. warning
4. comfort
5. silent/discreet communication (with other people)
6. assurance (that he/she is okay)
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LOL, no fart app pls.
 
Someone make a good beer counter app. Just press once to add a beer. Then you can check down at your wrist throughout the night and get a reminder that you've been at it too long.

Simple and personal.
 
colinstalter said:
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Props to whoever made that
 
ksuyen said:
You need to think the watch as the most personal device that is closest to you (on your skin) as opposed to your phone and the myriad of possibilities that the watch could do with that. It's akin to someone touching (nudging) you when you need:
1. reminder
2. notification
3. warning
4. comfort
5. silent/discreet communication (with other people)
6. assurance (that he/she is okay)

It's not merely fitness, although Apple would market it as such.
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I'm not convinced the watch is better than the phone at those things.

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Zwhaler said:
Props to whoever made that
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wow. impressive
 
repentix said:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/2010s-Motorola-Defy-is-currently-the-oldest-device-to-get-a-taste-of-Android-5.0-Lollipop-defies-expectations_id62711

So this is, at the moment of writing, the first 2010 phone using lollipop and as I said the nexus one will follow! ;)
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OK cool did not know about that one :)

I have many current Android devices here that I wish I could run Lollipop on to use a specific feature. But for most of them I am waiting for an update or custom rom.
 
tagy said:
OK cool did not know about that one :)

I have many current Android devices here that I wish I could run Lollipop on to use a specific feature. But for most of them I am waiting for an update or custom rom.
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I remember the days of the Vodafone 858 smart (my first android phone), although it was a pretty crappy phone even for the time, it was great because you could get CM 7.2 on it pretty easily due to it being fully supported by CM. You could unlock anything on it: multitouch: no problem; overclocking the CPU by 200MHz: no problem etc. . It is in my opinion not the best, but the most versatile android phone made to date. It started of with froyo and ended up with Kitkat, possibly Lollipop ;)!
 
What kind of processor it would use? Would it be more powerful than a desktop grade processors in late 90s maybe early 2000?
 
In my experience, it takes Apple at least 4 generations to get the product just right. I've experience this with the iPod Classic, iPhone, and iPad.

I'll wait until Apple Watch 4.

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cdmoore74 said:
I was always under the impression that the female version (aka the smaller one) would be $349 and the larger version would cost more.
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And women wonder why we get paid more...
 
Small White Car said:
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple's sales force could help people decide on what size watch to get based solely on how it looks on their arm and nothing else?
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That is exactly what they should do. The difference in production cost for the two models is probably next to nothing.

I find it a bit odd that the two have different screen resolutions though.
 
H2SO4 said:
I see that but Apple make so much of how things appear and then produce that flat boring rubbish.
Look at OSX icons, still flat but all different shapes and colours.
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You're not the first to say this, and I hope that, in the future, there will something like style sheets where users can determine whether they want flat or skeuromorphic icons and such.

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doelcm82 said:
I second that.
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I'll chime in...
 
H2SO4 said:
I see that but Apple make so much of how things appear and then produce that flat boring rubbish.
Look at OSX icons, still flat but all different shapes and colours.
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That's what gives iOS its distinctive look though. It doesn't look like a miniaturized desktop computer and the consistency of each icon's overall shape gives the overall appearance a much cleaner look.

The "flatness" of the design and how that looks is debatable, but I can see why they went that route after seeing the Apple watch.

You almost need each icon to be a flat circlular design for the animated navigation bubble effect to work and to recognize the smaller icons. Multiple shapes and anything too detailed would just add clutter.
 
Small White Car said:
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple's sales force could help people decide on what size watch to get based solely on how it looks on their arm and nothing else?
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Yes.
I also think it was a smart choice to not label the two sizes based on gender.
Same watch, two sizes, and customize via the band. I think that was the best way to handle it.
I'll be surprised if the two sizes differ in price. We'll see.
 
KPOM said:
I get 227. Remember, you need to input the diagonal length of the screen. For the 38mm version, it is 1.915" [38mm^2+30.4mm^2)^0.5]/25.4 = 1.915

Granted, this is low-end because I didn't factor in the bezel, but I think somewhere around 250-270 is plausible.
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You're right, I forgot that the 38/42mm measurment wasn't a diagonal one.

So the pixel density is right in line with Samsung's OLED watch displays. That should be fine for now. Battery life has a LONG ways to go before they can worry about disappearing those pixels.

I remain skeptical of these smart watches short of some battery tech revolution. Until these watches can actually replace a smartphone, they merely duplicate a subset of smartphone functions at great cost. I can appreciate the desire to wear a watch as a sort of fashion statement, and some watches are indeed beautiful, but I'm not sure any of these smart watches fall into that category...
 
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