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Google Pixel Watch Allegedly Leaks with Circular Design, Rumored to Launch in October
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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.
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
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.
So round, so thin. A lot of commentators on this site should be happy, their dream smart watch is almost here.
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 suppose, anyway who wants a bigger phones? "You can't get your hand around it. No one's going to buy that."It's coming right after they launch the new round iPhone.
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!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.
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? 😂
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.
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.
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.
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Hooray for round, but boo for Google. I don't need Mountain View listening to my heartbeat.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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).
I would absolutely love a round Apple Watch. I love my Apple Watch but I hate that it is square.
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...
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.
Yeah where is my round TV ?
I sympathize, given my Nest Protect is the flakiest device in my home. Won‘t be buying Google hardware ever again.
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.
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.