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Smart watches were not just overnight, and we have seen many different efforts to work in these years that we have. Some of these early efforts were basically just small phones that would make your wrist strangely straps, but eventually we went to the watch first designs, deliberately in our modern age.
Even there, we have seen many changes in more than decades after wearing Android (and now, after wearing OS). Preliminary efforts such as LGG Watch and Samsung Gear Live used rectangular screens, before the Moto 360 and its very circular “Flat Tire” display introduced us to the possibility of smart watch.
Although Apple is still running firmly with its rectangular watches, the Android world seems to be as if it is committed to a large extent to move its attention to circular screens. From the Galaxy Watch to the Pixel Watch Series, we are looking at the round display everywhere – even when we recently checked Samsung’s thinking about the “Square” format for the Galaxy Watch 8 models, the company looks at the content to keep the screen round.
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Does this have to happen in this way? Are we stuck with a market where if you want a modern, reasonable mainstream OS device, isn’t really a rectangular option? Round or nothing?
Let’s show for a second that this is not the world we live, and when you talk about both the smart watch style, your choice is selected. Who are you going for?
If you had to buy an OS Smart Watch wear, what form would you prefer?
885 votes
Round: Classic clock look
67 %
Square: more screen, easy to read
19 %
No preference: I care more about features
13 %
Technically, the OSOS still claims to be happy to support alternative watches, but especially with the expression of content 3 on the horizon, we are rapidly interested in the long -term possibilities of something other than round screens. However, when it is a de facto standard, and everything from the wearing OS UI elements to third party apps is basically targeting the circular display, anything that is broken by this style is “off”.
If you are still taking a torch for the Apple Watch Style Square designs, scream for your favorite rectangular OS model in the comments. We can’t promise that your options are going to be better, but we can always dream, okay?
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