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Re: Huawei Watch

#101

Post by javert »

gnarbarian wrote: post #90

I'm in the market for a smartwatch like this and I'm seriously considering this one and I can't wait to hear more about it. BUT I have to say something about this video. I'm from Alaska and do lots of backcountry snowboarding so this kind of stuff probably doesn't matter to most people but this video is laughable for a few reasons: > guy reminiscing about a memorable camping trip with friends yet can't remember how t…

I found the video offensive. I wanted to know about the watch. 1 minute in, it was almost entirely just shots of that guy. Fuck that shit. They're trying to get me to think the watch is cool because the guy is cool, rather than sell me on the features. I didn't finish watching. Treat me as a rational consumer or GTFO. And stop wasting my time. My time is valuable to me.

Re: Huawei Watch

#102

Post by aaronm14 »

suyash wrote: post #23
dzine wrote: post #7

Scrolling with the mousewheel is funky in Chrome. Hate when websites hijack the scroll event and misuse it.

I abandoned the website in less than 20 seconds as I couldn't navigate the page below on Chrome.

Same. Awesome looking watch, but after trying to scroll up and down a few times I was like welp guess I won't be finding out more about this watch! Impossible to find out what's in the middle of the site

Re: Huawei Watch

#103

Post by nl »

acqq wrote: post #68
cromwellian wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ive also blasted the Moto X for offering so many customization choices and shipped a watch predicated on massive customization. Let's get one thing straight. Apple lambasts everyone else's designs until they adopt them. Recall that: 1) Mini-tablets are too small to be usable, you'd have to "file down your fingers to use them" 2) Large screen phones are a) things people don't want and b) don't fit your hand properly.…

Do you think Apple is not capable of making the round watch? It's obvious that they really evaluated the possibilities, saw exactly the effect nicely illustrated on the picture, and decided to sacrifice the "roundness" this time. The same people that insisted on rounded corners at the times when it was costly (1) to make them. A concious decision, not something that competition does better. I fully understand you tho…

Of course! All of that is completely correct.

The point is that Apple often attacks other companies who make different trade-off decisions.

Remember how they rubbished the idea of larger phones and said what a terrible idea that was? Turns out that it wasn't a terrible idea - there's a whole set of people it is better for.

Re: Huawei Watch

#104

Post by gnarbarian »

javert wrote: post #101
gnarbarian wrote: post #90

I'm in the market for a smartwatch like this and I'm seriously considering this one and I can't wait to hear more about it. BUT I have to say something about this video. I'm from Alaska and do lots of backcountry snowboarding so this kind of stuff probably doesn't matter to most people but this video is laughable for a few reasons: > guy reminiscing about a memorable camping trip with friends yet can't remember how t…

I found the video offensive. I wanted to know about the watch. 1 minute in, it was almost entirely just shots of that guy. Fuck that shit. They're trying to get me to think the watch is cool because the guy is cool, rather than sell me on the features. I didn't finish watching. Treat me as a rational consumer or GTFO. And stop wasting my time. My time is valuable to me.

yes. All the videos are cringeworthy with laughably clumsy and fake sounding dialog. They are in dire need of coaching to better appeal to westerners.

Re: Huawei Watch

#105

Post by mikeash »

o0-0o wrote: post #18

Isn't Huawei the company that the United States barred because they were spying/embedding firmworms/foreign? Of course the gov would know what to look for, but why would I wear a Communist produced watch on my wrist?!

What electronics can you buy these days that are not "Communist produced"? I'm posting from a "Communist produced" computer and I'd bet you're reading on one.

Re: Huawei Watch

#106

Post by Florin_Andrei »

angryasian wrote: post #81
acqq wrote: post #11

And this picture which is actually on huawei site as the part of the promo (!) illustrates the best why Jony Ive said (1) that "a circle doesn't make any sense" for a smartwatch: http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/a... ---- 1) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-co...

as a moto 360 owner its hardly a problem. I can tell right away if its something I want to read in a glance, in this context from the picture alone. I'll immediately dismiss it, otherwise I'll scroll up for more information. Even with gmail notifications, this is not a problem. I think this entire quote by Ive is similar to Jobs argument, that 3.5" is perfect size or 10" tablet is the perfect size.

My thoughts exactly.

Stuff at the bottom is quick, short notifications anyway. Want more details? You'd scroll up anyway.

Works fine for me - in fact, I was pleasantly surprised how well the thing works. I used to think smart watches were a gimmick, now I'm a believer. The 360 rocks.

Re: Huawei Watch

#107

Post by PhasmaFelis »

Remember when cellphones were getting smaller every year, and a smaller phone was a status symbol? And then suddenly touchscreens happened, and now phones are getting bigger and bigger again?

I feel like smartwatches are the result of that "smaller" impulse pushing through the trend.

Re: Huawei Watch

#108

Post by anigbrowl »

anigbrowl wrote: post #62
Osmium wrote: post #37

From the recent New Yorker profile of Jonny Ive: > The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists ”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any sense,” Ive said. Its final form resembles one of Newson’s watches, and the Cartier Santos, from 1904. I think circular watches, in principle, look a lot nicer (certainly in ads), but tha…

As jwz has it, 'Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.' I don't think he meant this as an endorsement. I don't want to read things on my watch - I want one that I just look at it, and where the circular frame is the basis of the design, so it's either a simple thing within that like a face with a call icon, or some sort of radial display like a clock, or some more abstract interfaces like sections o…

I window if the pixels are square

Leider geil

Re: Huawei Watch

#109

Post by veb »

foxylad wrote: post #88

I'm surprised that anyone (apart from Apple) is bothering to make smart watches. I stopped wearing a watch years ago, because the extra information I got from looking at my smartphone covered the overhead of pulling it out of my pocket. I've enjoyed not having something strapped to my wrist, so any of these horribly thick smart watches are going to have to provide a compelling benefit to get anywhere near my arm. Bec…

Hearing aids are already very smart. I got a cochlear implant a year ago, and it's fantastic. I've had moderate to severe hearing loss since birth. I wore hearing aids for the past 25 years with loads of different models, even brands so I know from experience.

I got the Med-El Opus 2 and RONDO as the processor for my implant: http://www.medel.com/rondo/

Hearing aids are again, very smart -- they do things like increasing volume to hear voices (coded to whatever your hearing loss is) when you're somewhere noisy (next to a busy road, a pub and so on). They usually 'communicate' together, changing volume automatically as an example and very rarely need any tinkering: just turn them on to hear.

Hearing aids and Cochlear Implants are some very fascinating tech, and very well made.

Re: Huawei Watch

#110

Post by tw04 »

gcdgcd2 wrote: post #99

Huawei is the main Supplier of the GFW of China. The Golden Shield Project (Chinese: 金盾工程; pinyin: jīndùn gōngchéng), colloquially referred to as the Great Firewall of China [1] (Chinese: 防火长城; pinyin: fánghuǒ chángchéng) is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of China.

Main? I believe that title goes to Cisco. Not sure what it has to do with a smart watch though.

http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/suit-over-ciscos-ro...

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