Isn't the dial off-center? http://imgur.com/5nFbP5r
Looks like all the images are just Photoshop mockups so any centreing issues should be taken with a grain of salt.
Huawei Watch
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#42And 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...
You can scroll that card to see the rest of it. I fail to see how this is a problem.
And, in fact, scrolling the card is exactly how it works for a square Android Wear watch too. The only difference is that (with the possible exception of ugly word-wrap cases), the truncation is only vertical, not horizontal as well. Considering how much has to be truncated on a watch screen anyway, I think it is hard to make the argument that the square interface works and the circular one doesn't.
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#43The watch on the left in the first picture appears to show a heart rate graph labelled with "bmp", which is a file format. The unit of heart rate is beats per minute, or "bpm".
Which raises the question if the functionality that does what's on that picture actually exists. Or maybe they have just the Chinese version at the moment?
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#44Isn't the dial off-center? http://imgur.com/5nFbP5r
"Ergonomic button placement": http://imgur.com/Ed57fhj
Makes sense. Since it's just a button, not a dial, the higher placement is more convenient for the index finger.
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#45I'm not sure I understand how it works - are the 40 designs they talk about all 'themes' than can be swapped? Ie the watch has a digital screen that displays the dial, etc?
Yep. That's how the Moto 360 works, too, fyi.
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#46And 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...
You can scroll that card to see the rest of it. I fail to see how this is a problem.
You have to scroll the text up nearly halfway just to see the beginning of the lines. That means most of the space on the screen is wasted because I can't read lines that are not right in the middle of the screen.
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#47Scrolling with the mousewheel is funky in Chrome. Hate when websites hijack the scroll event and misuse it.
This is the first time a product page has made me want to complain on HN about hijacking the scroll event. I just cmd+f'd for "hijack" and knew I'd find other grumblers here.
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#48From 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…
Android Wear is specifically designed to avoid this problem. You get a series of glance-able cards that you can swipe through for more information or actions. In maybe one or two places (the Settings app) do you actually get a list view, and they are all one-line entries that fit easily on a round screen.
Apple's philosophy toward the smartwatch experience is just different. Android Wear is all about contextual notifications and glanceable information. What we've seen of Apple Watch is smartphone apps scaled down. I'm sure it will be very powerful and well-designed, just not my cup of tea.
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#49Isn't the dial off-center? http://imgur.com/5nFbP5r
My money's on "sloppy photoshop."
Or maybe they're going for some funky thing where the hands stretch out when they're pointed up and right.
But probably the photoshop.