Don't care about satellite connection speed.
Don't care about square vs. circle.
DO care about battery life!
Don't care about square vs. circle.
DO care about battery life!
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Google Beats Apple to Satellite Connectivity With Pixel Watch 4
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Except for the fact that apple watches only work on Apple phones at least with android if you change phone brands you can still use the watch. Theres a bigger range of androidnwear\garmin type fitness watches out there that work properly on android phones, so there's never going to be a massive seller compared to people with iPhones who have to buy an apple watch to get full functionality.
It looks beautiful. Apple has the regular rectangular watch, the ultra ugly Ultra Watch and it should also make an elegant round one. Apple has like 6 different iPhones per generation (regular, regular Plus, Pro, Pro Max, SE, Air) but only 3 Watches with one form.
Sooo ugly! Thank goodness Apple went with a clean square design, where you can actually see more usable screen.
If you showed both designs to someone 10 years ago and asked him… tell me which of them you’d say has been designed by Apple? Almost 100 percent would say the round one.
Folks think this is good looking:
But this is ugly?
I haven't either, but I don't look at what watch people are wearing because 1) It's none of my business, 2) I don't care.
Huge props to a serviceable battery. Google deserves a lot of credit for that.
Absolutely…. Everyone here would be making fun of the square one if it weren’t the Apple one.
The objectivity around here is at an all-time low.
I don’t know why some folks can’t just give Google, or any other company, a win when they earn one.
Not at all interested in a google product, but GREAT that they beat Apple in repairability - Apple needs to step up in that field a lot. (just using recycled stuff for building still totally disposable and almost unrepairable products aren't enough)
and also - a circular watch just looks really nice, the round-squareish edge-complications on my AWu2 isn't that usable anyway... I would love a circular apple watch!
The guy who bemoans a perceived lack of objectivity...is the one who uses "Absolutely" with a purely esthetic opinion.
No more or less than the standard Apple Chiclet Watches. Only the Ultra looks ok IMHO. Garmin Fenix looks better than both.
18-24 months ago these could have been mistaken for cartoonish AI renderings of the Apple Watch and AirPods lol.
That's always the schtick of the so-called competition. Make something that emulates Apple, rush a few gimmick features to market and sell that as a value proposition. Personally, if I'm stuck in an emergency situation and need to call for help, I'd rather have the larger battery, processor, keyboard and transmission capacity to reach satellites.
No, it looks like some off-brand trinket you would buy for a child in the toy aisle at TJ Maxx. Garmins all look like something a dad would wear on his first date after the divorce.
I switched to an instinct 2X solar and haven’t looked back. Not trying to gang up on Apple here but smart watches are doing way too much for me. I just like the time, weather, GPS, workouts… I don’t need to compose emails, make calls, and text from my watch. I see its use case here and there and it’s natural progression to offer that and have that but it’s not for me. I’m not the target demographic for these things.
Circular watches are not only inefficient for displaying information, but they make scrolling very painful. Either they have to constantly reformat the data, or they have to give up much of the screen to have square/rectangular area in which to display that data.
Sorry, it is a computer on your wrist, and your Garmin looks just as dorky.
Sorry, I do not like the watch face on the pixel nor do I like the color of the band. I do like the font/face on the Apple Watch, and I prefer a black band (I have a black band on my Apple Watch and had a black band on my Basis watch before my Apple Watch.
I understand that everything you hate the Apple Watch and cannot imagine anyone liking it, but given how well it sells, maybe your view is not that of the mainstream.
My issue is not that I want a phone on my wrist, but that almost all the metrics I display (fitness, maps, etc.) provide way more information and allow it to flow better in a square/rectangular area.
I like not needing to be tethered to my phone at all times, especially on the track or running on the beach.
Are you arguing that you would rather not have had the satellite connection? It is not as nice as a high speed 5G connection, but way better than no connection.
Simply not true. My last Seiko analog watch (with an LCD second Timezone display) was square. My Basis Band (the fitness watch I had before Apple released the Apple Watch), was square. Better and more useful data display.
I get it. Apple Bad. Garmin (and anything not Apple) Good.