Google Pixel Watch Allegedly Leaks with Circular Design, Rumored to Launch in October

[emulajavi]

If apple released this, I would instantly buy it!

 

[iPadified]

A lot of people comparing with Apple watch (obviously), but a better comparison might be samsung watches, which looked pretty nice imo. No way the Google watch will be as slim as the renders though.

That said, I prefer the square of apple watch personally. With the steel/aluminum cases, the bands, the rhinoshield like cases, you can make it look any way you prefer. Haters can hate all they want, but the market has clearly spoken with the popularity of apple watch. I love mine too.

In order to test your hypothesis, Apple need to release a round watch and then it is possible to conclude about the market choices. It has not something to do with hate, it has to do with personal preference. I like a round watches. It does not mean that I hate square one - I just do't buy one.

 

[Populus]

We’ll see how’s battery life, for me this is key. I wear a Mi Band because I only charge it twice per month. If the Apple Watch had better battery life (let’s say, 5 days, to be realistic), I would definitely get one. But having to charge another device every day (or every other day if I’m lucky)... No thanks

 

[mazz0]

Apple needs to improve the battery life of their Apple Watch, the battery life now is not great.

To be honest unless they can make it many times better than it is now then I don't really care - an incremental benefit would be pointless as far as I can see. I charge it every night, so it makes no difference whether it has 25% or 50% or even 100% charge left when I charge it. The only thing that would make a difference would be something that gets me out of the habit of charging every night, such as an all-week battery life maybe.

 

[Harvey Zoltan]

So round, so thin. A lot of commentators on this site should be happy, their dream smart watch is almost here.

 

[neuropsychguy]

It looks nice and I hope Apple eventually move to the round form at some point.

I’ve said this many times in various settings but while round analog watches make sense, round digital watches do not. Round smart watches make less sense. How many circular computer monitors do you have? How many circular smartphones do you have? A circle is an inefficient use of space. A circle has 78.5% the surface area of a square with a side == the diameter. It’s less usable space. The upside is you can make an apparently (but not actually) larger screen be lighter because 20% of the screen is missing by using a circle instead of a rectangle.

 

[Oblivious.Robot]

It's coming right after they launch the new round iPhone.

I suppose, anyway who wants a bigger phones? "You can't get your hand around it. No one's going to buy that."
Apple is never going to make anything bigger than current iPhone 4, mark my words. Right?

- Typed from an iPhone 12 Pro Max.

 

[mazz0]

I suppose, anyway who wants a bigger phones? "You can't get your hand around it. No one's going to buy that."
Apple is never going to make anything bigger than current iPhone 4, mark my words. Right?

- Typed from an iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Nobody asked your opinion King Kong!

 

[Razorpit]

So Google can market it as a (poor) point of difference to the market leader ?

Lets hope things like this get sorted then -

"Google’s Wear OS is often called neglected, and honestly, it’s an apt description when you hear stories like this. For the past few months, the “Hey Google” hotword on Wear OS has been broken.

Reports on Reddit and the Google Issue Tracker show that the “OK Google” and “Hey Google” hotwords to trigger Assistant have not been working on Wear OS smartwatches. The issue apparently first showed up around November 2020 and has gone mostly unnoticed in the time since aside from the occasional Reddit thread."

Can you imagine the baying for blood on here if this was broken on an AW for a day let alone months as it took Google 4 months to fix.....

Funny you mention that, SIRI has been of the rails for our family for the last few weeks. Sometimes even the simplest requests get FUBAR’ed. My “goodnight” routine that hasn’t changed in two years stopped working. As well as a few other automations.

“Hey Siri, turn on the kitchen light.”
Light turns on
”Sorry, the kitchen light is not responding.”
Well Siri it came on before you said that. I guess you two are like a married couple now? ?

 

[DeepIn2U]

Looks you once of the payment bands you use at the swimming pool to open your locker and buy your lunch. Awful design. ??

Looks to me like a dark shiny computer circle or sphere being squished, like that ball getting squished by the lamp before ToyStory. Just looks much worse.

 

[GMacAppleUser]

Thank goodness! Now that android users have their own watch, I'll be able to quickly identify green texters and avoid association with them. Nothing worse than becoming friendly with someone and then learning you can't add them to a group chat with advertising their Poor status.

 

[RedGT]

I’ve said this many times in various settings but while round analog watches make sense, round digital watches do not. Round smart watches make less sense. How many circular computer monitors do you have? How many circular smartphones do you have? A circle is an inefficient use of space. A circle has 78.5% the surface area of a square with a side == the diameter. It’s less usable space. The upside is you can make an apparently (but not actually) larger screen be lighter because 20% of the screen is missing by using a circle instead of a rectangle.

I think there’s nothing wrong with round watches & comparing them to monitors or smart-phones is ridiculous.

watches are wearable.....so totally different, some of the Diesel watches look nice and you have almost an an unlimited choice of watcfaces. I have a Fossil explorist that looks pretty nice in my opinion and Wear OS works surprisingly well with my iPhone....it’s just a pity the battery life is so unpredictable.

I really enjoyed wearing my Fossil, but as I said the battery life ruined the experience.

 

[tubular]

Hooray for round, but boo for Google. I don't need Mountain View listening to my heartbeat.

 

[Wiesenlooser]

For all the people hating: You realise this basically looks like 1:1 if you made a round apple watch? seriously, even the digital crown...

 

[chucker23n1]

I don't think it looks bad, but it has a bit of a 1990s' sci-fi feel. Could be straight out of a ST: Voyager episode. I also doubt the final product will be this slick. It's a somewhat artificial render.

Hard to tell how large this is. For example, the Withings is almost too big for this wrist:

Not sure if anyone ever did a followup on this overview of almost all smartwatches being too big.

 

[tubular]

That said, I prefer the square of apple watch personally. With the steel/aluminum cases, the bands, the rhinoshield like cases, you can make it look any way you prefer. Haters can hate all they want, but the market has clearly spoken with the popularity of apple watch. I love mine too.

I don't hate square watches. I just don't like them enough to want to buy one.

If the Apple Watch were round, I'd buy one instantly. But it's not, so I haven't.

And I'm not interested in being tracked by Google, so that's out too.

Life's full of choices. Mine, for now, is no watch.

 

[4look4rd]

This should appeal to all the "purists" claiming that watches should be round. ones that never saw a nice square Omega or Audemars Piguet.

There are nice square watches,but the Apple Watch isn’t one of them. You’re trading in looks for functionality and that’s fine, but just don’t lie to yourself the Apple Watch looks good Especially compared to watches in the $500+ range (sure more than the Apple Watch but they will last a lifetime instead of 2-5 years).

 

[deckard666]

You have as much chance Apple doing a round one as Samsung doing OLED tv's....oh wait

 

[Jason2000]

Still don't understand why Google insist on round form-factor.

Apple watch has already proved that rectangular is more suitable. And it has been accepted by users as well.

I would absolutely love a round Apple Watch. I love my Apple Watch but I hate that it is square.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I don't hate square watches. I just don't like them enough to want to buy one.

If the Apple Watch were round, I'd buy one instantly. But it's not, so I haven't.

And I'm not interested in being tracked by Google, so that's out too.

Life's full of choices. Mine, for now, is no watch. View attachment 1756736

Love the picture. I remember seeing my first square watch, and fell in love. I guess it appealed to the 'rebel' in me. What stopped me was the price. It was a very expensive watch at a very expensive end of a cruise jewelry counter. (Great prices? For whom?)

But I understand the appeal of a round watch. I dove a lot, and was looking for a dive computer, and grew to hate the square and rectangular 'computers', and bought a round one. It was purely functional, as it didn't hang up on things. (And then the company that made it was sold three times, and gutted by a Wall Street parasite, but that's another story)

If the Apple Watch had sharper corners, I'd have not considered it, flat out. There are limits...

EDIT: Actually making a round face on a square/rectangular watch became THE WATCH TO OWN for quite a long time. They were really very popular. People copied that design as much as they could. Some said it was 'revolutionary'. I had a hard time figuring out that statement, but anyway...

 

[LeeW]

And it has been accepted by users as well.

When you are given only one choice you are forced to accept it.

 

[Rogifan]

The renders actually remind me ones you’d see for round Apple Watch concepts which were ridiculous because you’d never get all day battery life out of something that thin. So either this watch does not much more than tell time or these renders aren’t legit.

 

[deckard666]

When you are given only one choice you are forced to accept it.

Yeah where is my round TV ?

 

[FightTheFuture]

"Google’s Wear OS is often called neglected, and honestly, it’s an apt description when you hear stories like this. For the past few months, the “Hey Google” hotword on Wear OS has been broken.

Reports on Reddit and the Google Issue Tracker show that the “OK Google” and “Hey Google” hotwords to trigger Assistant have not been working on Wear OS smartwatches. The issue apparently first showed up around November 2020 and has gone mostly unnoticed in the time since aside from the occasional Reddit thread."

I sympathize, given my Nest Protect is the flakiest device in my home. Won‘t be buying Google hardware ever again.

 

[magicschoolbus]

This site is a little hypocritical sometimes. You know how manny comments there would be right know praising apple, saying thank god Ive is Gone, ETC - if this watch had an Apple logo on it and it was round?

Now I would never let Google be collecting data on my body with every single heartbeat, step, movement, ETC.. that just seems scary. I could care less how good it looks. Do you trust Google with the second by second operations of your body? Yea, no thanks.