Yeesh, I hope Google's final product is better than that. Apple needs some competition in the watch space.
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Google's Unreleased Pixel Watch Leaks After Being Left Behind in a Restaurant
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It’s chunky the way the original Apple Watch was. Also, the crystal doesn’t have enough of a perfectly flat area. I can understand this level of design as a first attempt only if the Apple Watch in its current form after years of refinement didn’t exist.
I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the latest Apple Watch and compare it to the earlier models and see how Apple evolved and refined it.
Google could then skip painful early missteps. Apple made the crystal have a smaller curved section so that the crystal could have a larger flat viewing/input space less prone to annoying reflections and distortions.
This Google watch has too much of its crystal devoted to a curved edge. That’s fine for an analog watch. But for a smart watch? I wonder if it means a thicker black bezel around the usable display.
I'm just waiting on someone to come out with a smart watch that lives on a chain like a pocket watch. Finally I'll be able to put that small pocket in my jeans to use.... /s
Thank you for taking the time to reply in such a detailed manner. Its nice to read a logical answer instead of a knee-jerk response.
I'd hope that with advances in Lidar mapping we'd eventually get mapping of indoor areas using a combo of UWB and Bluetooth for positioning indoors.
Those cases totally exist for AW. IMO its a neat novelty, but defeats the purpose of having all the sensors if you're going to just keep it in your pocket all the time. Have to manually unlock it constantly, etc.
I really want Pixel to succeed with a watch because the more competition out there, the better choices consumers will have. But this pixel watch is chunky. The way it will sit on the wrist and be hard to fit under a dress shirt or long sleeve shirt or a jacket. Also the chunkier watches tend to slide more because they shift more due to weight. Also the strap is ugly as hell.
True.
I wonder if there would be a desire anywhere for a smart-ish pocket watch, lose the sensors and have a bigger screen. Still get notifications and have haptics for quiet, but not have to have a wristwatch. Just thinking out loud.
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Who actually cares about all this lovelessly thrown crap? Google mixes included.
We all know the Apple Watch, so we are not clueless about what has already been achieved.
I am happy with my Apple Watch. And I know why.
And those who whine about costs are welcome to try to be happy at Alibaba.
' because the more competition out there, the better choices consumers will have.'
At what point are there enough copying competitors for some? If competitors don't have convincing ideas, they just pull in money for nonsense. And I'd rather see money go where value and truly new worlds are created.
$12.79
Who actually cares about all this lovelessly thrown crap? Google mixes included.
We all know the Apple Watch, so we are not clueless about what has already been achieved.
I am happy with my Apple Watch. And I know why.
And those who whine about costs are welcome to try to be happy at Alibaba.
' because the more competition out there, the better choices consumers will have.'
At what point are there enough copying competitors for some? If competitors don't have convincing ideas, they just pull in money for nonsense. And I'd rather see money go where value and truly new worlds are created.
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Isn't that watch band design patented by Marc Newson? I was under the impression Apple was able to use the "tuck under" design because they hired him onto their design team. Curious how Google plans to get away with copying it.
I can recommend Garmin's MARQ series, besides looking like a real watch it holds battery for 5-41 days - I ditched my apple watch for this one (I have 4 generations of apple watches in the drawer)
No, no, no, this was an Apple engineer leaving one of the lenses from the iPhone 14 camera bump behind in a bar …
The "Pixel Watch," Google's first flagship smartwatch aimed to become a competitor for the Apple Watch, has leaked online after a Google employee who had access to the unreleased watch apparently left it behind at a bar.
The images were shared with Android Central, which stated at the time that it had received the pictures from a source who had found the watch at a restaurant. Thanks to a Reddit thread from a user who claims to have supplied Android Central with the images, however (via The Verge), some more details about how images of the watch made their way online have been shared.
According to Reddit user u/tagtech414, their friend who works at a bar found the watch a few weeks ago and decided to keep hold of it, hoping the owner or Google would come looking for it. Neither the owner nor Google seemingly ever reached out or looked for the watch. The incident will draw stark similarities to when the iPhone 4, the biggest redesign to the iPhone at the time since its launch, was leaked online after an employee forgot it at a bar.
As for the watch itself, the images match with renders shared last year by Jon Prosser. Google is opting for a circular watch design, with a circular dial, a side button, and a hole on the side, likely to be a microphone. The screen size is around 1.5-inches, according to the Reddit user and an additional image shared on Reddit shows the watch with relatively large bezels.
Like the Apple Watch, the Pixel Watch will have a mechanism for changing watch bands, according to the images. An image of a blue silicone-like watch band depicts the Pixel Watch experience being similar to that of the Apple Watch regarding watch bands, letting users easily slide different options in and out.
The Pixel Watch has been rumored to launch for some time and could see an official announcement as soon as next month. Google will be holding Google I/O, its annual developers conference, from May 11 through May 12 where additional details could be shared.
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LOL, how do you lose a prototype watch in a restaurant? This was done on purpose.
Nobody would be talking about this watch if it weren't for this leak.
That all being said, I wish Apple would design a round version of the Apple Watch. I prefer that design historically in the mechanical watches I used to wear. I just don't think it would work well with apps and text and to get a similar square area in the center you'd need a much larger face. Oh well.
Nobody would be talking about this watch if it weren't for this leak.
That all being said, I wish Apple would design a round version of the Apple Watch. I prefer that design historically in the mechanical watches I used to wear. I just don't think it would work well with apps and text and to get a similar square area in the center you'd need a much larger face. Oh well.
I don’t really know about that. I doubt that the issues holding WearOS back are that there’s not a Google branded Pixel watch. The Pixel phones don’t actually seem to play a significant role in the Android ecosystem (which is still dominated by Samsung and the big name Chinese brands), and I doubt most people into the Android ecosystem were just waiting for Google to release theirs to get into WearOS smartwatches. Google gets a lot of attention (perhaps an unwarranted level of attention) for its Pixel phones because it’s the company that makes the platform (a similar thing happens with Microsoft and its Surface branded products), but they’re not big players in market share, and the things they do hardware wise rarely ever have knock-on effects for the rest of the Android ecosystem.