Smartwatch Thread (news/apps/updates)

Ben Cole said:
Recently considered selling my LG G watch R as I was starting to get bored with it. Instead I noticed a dead pixel and got a full refund from Amazon.

The main failing for me was the lack of ambient light sensor. I never have to faff with my Apple Watch because I can't see the screen or its conspicuously bright. Because if this I think I'll wait for the next generation of Android wear. Don't know about anything in the pipeline though?
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Not really much interesting in the pipeline as far as I know, but for what it's worth both the Moto 360's (e.g. original and 2015/2nd gen) have an ambient light sensor, it's in the 'flat tyre' at the bottom of the screen, and I agree it makes so much sense to have one on a smartwatch.
 
Ben Cole said:
I'm still really annoyed by it, possibly not as much as the lack of ambient light sensor in the G Watch R though. Apple do a good job of hiding it in the Apple Watch.
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Huawei's Android Wear watch doesn't have the flat tyre, and is just as nice looking as the 360 with a better screen.
 
AndyCr15 said:
But it has a bezel. The G Watch R doesn't have a flat tyre either, it has a bezel. The 360 has the flat tyre instead of the bezel, to house the sensors.
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The bezel is tiny and barely noticeable. Look at how much better the Huawei looks with a dark watch-face than the 360 because it doesn't have the flat tyre.

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Even with a white screen the bezel is tiny and barely noticeable would much rather have that than the flat tyre.
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For me the Huawei looks quite a bit better.
 
I wasn't commenting on which looks better... I don't like the flat tyre either, sold me 360 because of it.

Actually though, the 2015 360 looks to have a bezel when the previous one didn't. That's worth pointing out.
 
The Huawei does look nice, but no ambient light sensor/auto-brightness iirc?

For me that is actually a fairly big feature, that along with the bezels make the flat tyre an acceptable compromise imo.

Obviously if there was a watch with the original 360's lack of bezels, and auto-brightness (and an OLED screen) I'd swap in a heartbeat, as it is I don't see a need to upgrade from the 360, and still view it as a viable option new now it's fairly 'cheap'

I'm actually quite disappointed with the more recent smartwatches, they haven't really taken the step forwards I'd expected, still lots of ugly ones, still using SoC's designed for phones, still some using LCD's rather than OLED's, etc etc.

But there is some hope I guess, the new Samsung circular watch (albeit not Android Wear) has a custom SoC, OLED screen and even uses the bezel as an input device, which at least makes sense of it being there. One of the worst bits of the G Watch R is the bezel being made to look like a normal watch bezel, yet being completely static/useless, that's worse than the 360's flat tyre imo.
 
Well, got the Urbane. I like it a lot.
With a traditional watch face it looks much less like a smartwatch than the Moto360. I much prefer the ambient mode on it too with the face always visible.
The strap is super stiff though so I'll be soaking it in water tonight to make it loosen up.
It's still a bit of a chunk though just like the G-Watch R.
 
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