Google Beats Apple to Satellite Connectivity With Pixel Watch 4

[dypeterc]

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[svish]

The watch looks good. Wonder whether Apple will ever release a circular watch. Pixel Buds seems to be good earbuds too.

 

[arobert3434]

That face is fugly but the hardware design has it all over the Apple watch.

 

[bluecoast]

The circular screen is fantastic.

Looks great on the Samsung watch too.

We only have a rectangular screen on the Apple Watch, as Apple mistakenly thought that it was going to be a new app platform ie a mini iPhone.

(And that they could use their skills in fitting lots of components into a rectangular chassis).

Instead, people use it for glanceable information and workout and health tracking.

Here’s hoping that Apple has realised this a few years back and that a watch with a circular screen is coming soon.

 

[bluecoast]

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.

I think that you’re actually pretty typical.

Outside of these forums and nerdy circles, I bet most people use a fraction of the functionality of the AW.

Apparently my 45mm S9 has a keyboard. Why would I use that on such a small screen?

Why would I check my emails on my AW, when I have my phone with my 99% of the time anyway?

Etc etc.

 

[TriBruin]

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.

Is that much information really necessary? Some watch faces are just overloaded with data? When you are working out, you need to be able to glance at the watch and get your data quick.

Sorry, it is a computer on your wrist, and your Garmin looks just as dorky.

And "looking dorky" is an opinion, not a fact. I personally feel that the Apple Watch Ultra looks dorky on people. It reminds me of the an '80 high school nerd with a calculator watch.

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.

You realize that Google has choices, just like Apple. I have seen some pretty gaudy bands on Apple Watches.

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.

What other fitness watches have you bought and used? What data could you not see? Most other watches I have seen find a way to put the most prominent data on the screen.

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.

And most classically designed watches are round.

I get it. Apple Bad. Garmin (and anything not Apple) Good.

Oh come on, just because someone expresses an opinion that does not toe the MacRumors' "Apple rights, everyone else wrong, unless they copy Apple." doesn't mean someone hates Apple.

Between this thread and the recent Garmin thread, it is clear that there are a LOT people who have expressed an interest in a circular watch. Even people that have Apple Watches and are Apple supporter. I suspect that if Apple were to offer a CHOICE of a circular watch, it would be fairly popular. Personally, I would take a good look at it.