[SubNoize]

honestly, i don't they they were aesthetic enough. everyone I saw was incredibly ugly. I think most smart watch companies had this problem and by the time some had solved it, the novelty had worn off.

I bought a second hand moto 360 and got tired of having to charge it and my phone for what was practically the same return.

[sbarre]

Obviously this is your opinion, but I will counter with mine..

I think the Pebble Time Steel [0][1] is actually the only good looking fully-functional smartwatch on the market, even to this day..

The Apple Watch looks like a wrist computer (yeah I know), and most of the other ones out there are either HUGE (I'm not into massive watch faces), or also look clunky and un-appealing. Or they are very blatantly "sport watches". I want a watch I can wear to work (where I have to dress up somewhat), or wear out at night..

Combine that with once-a-week charging, and I'm still super sad that mine will one day stop working and there won't be anything I can do about it. :-(

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Jn9cYI1QL... [1]: http://i.imgur.com/Wqbaibt.png

[gregmac]

I have a Huawei Watch which is round, all-black and has a black steel band [0]. It fits in at work or basically any social situation. I ended up building my own watch face, which is quite subtle and mostly black. Mainly bought it because it was the first round one I liked (round, without 'flat tire' LCD).

Primarily use for seeing my agenda and message notifications, and to see the time.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qr20Cdn.png

[sbarre]

Hmm that's not a bad looking watch.

I may have to look into it when someone shuts off the servers and forces my functional Pebble to take its Long Walk..

Although that looks like an LED face, which probably means bunk battery life..

[gregmac]

It's AMOLED. I can get somewhere between 1.75 and 2.75 days, depending on how much I actively use it (and presumably, how much my movements cause the full face to light up). According to Watchmaker, my face has an OPR [1] of 5.5% bright, and 1.3% dim (idle) mode, and I leave it in 'always on' mode (where it is in the 'dim' mode most of the time). If you use a watchface with more stuff on the screen, battery decreases. If you change the face to turn off instead of dim, you get a lot more.

I've never had trouble getting through a full day and most days it has 50-60% left. If I'm not wearing it, I stick it on the charger (magnetic) which is always sitting beside my bed. I will say if I travelled a lot, the extra hassle of worrying about charging it and not forgetting/losing the charger would probably make me not bother with it, but I only am away for more than a night a handful of times a year (and either bring the charger, or wear a different non-smart watch).

[1] https://plus.google.com/102436534884531510368/posts/R2878L81...

[sbarre]

Thank you for providing this extra detail..

I do travel enough that I would need to bring the charger with me it sounds..

But yeah so far it's one of the nicer looking smart watches I've seen aside from my Pebble..

[vvanders]

Ditto Time Round. It's the only smartwatch that doesn't look/feel like a giant brick.

[seltzered_]

Agree, but I think they were getting better in the later models. I use a pebble se with a eulit palma pacific watch band and it blends away very well compared to the original pebble. I’m actually afraid of switching to an Apple Watch since it’ll be heavier.

Photo since everyone else is doing that: https://imgur.com/a/Y38D

I realize this is more of a “thin and sporty” swatch aesthetic than a metal svelte aesthetic.

[seltzered_]

Fixed link: https://imgur.com/a/Y38zD