Smartwatches can be fantastic fitness tools and health trackers, but when it comes to their design, many people say they still have a long way to go before they can really compete with traditional watches. Some claim that smart watches will not match their appearance until they have thinner display bezels. While this opinion may have merit, it is a double-edged sword.
When it comes to smartphones, I'm not one to support constant design changes for the sake of fake evolution. It doesn't offend me that it is Galaxy S22 Ultra same as Galaxy S23 Ultra, which also applies to the situation between iPhones. But when it comes to smartwatches, I'm afraid not Galaxy Watch Samsung hasn't reached the pinnacle of its design yet.
Galaxy Watch4 Classic vs. Watch5 Pro
The first leaks of the appearance indicate that the upcoming Galaxy Watch6 Classic may not actually look very interesting. They could end up looking indistinguishable from the model Watch4 Classic, including the output between the buttons, which the model Watch5 For deprived. But there are still those rumors that, on the contrary, talk about the fact that Samsung will try to modernize the design of the new product mainly by using thinner display frames. But is it a good idea?
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There is no room for sacrificing usability
I use Galaxy Watch4 Classic, I tried i Galaxy Watch5 to Watch5 For. However, I must admit that the design of the current Galaxy Watch it doesn't seem polished to perfection. It's not ugly by any means, but there's room for improvement. Still, I wouldn't argue that the best way to advance the design is to make the display bezels thinner.
Samsung watch faces
Many watch faces have interactive UI elements right on the edge of the active screen, which is bordered by a fairly thick border of pixel-free nothingness/blackness. These include heart rate and stress monitors, battery health monitors, step counters and more. These UI elements can be tapped to get more informace, and therefore conveniently replace the tiles that you have to pass through first to get to the desired one, which you have up to several times in a row.
For the most part, I've found the touchscreen accuracy for these very small UI elements to be second to none. However, I feel that the problem inherent in the thin bezels of smartwatches would detract from the usability of these features on the watch face, especially with the high edge of Galaxy Watch5 For where it would be very inconvenient to touch them, u Galaxy Watch5, it might not be such a problem, because here the display is flat. But just about to Watch6 Classic will again have a rotating bezel, so the same unfortunate scenario would occur here.
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Simply put, smartwatch bezels may need to be thicker to aid usability and not hinder the user's touch input, be it a bezel-less model or not. And as long as Samsung is aware of it, maybe with displays Galaxy Watch we will never see edge to edge unless the company is willing to sacrifice usability itself. Sure, Samsung could redesign its watch faces accordingly, but what about all the third-party ones?
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What about a curved display?
Perhaps the only reasonable way for Samsung to "improve" the design of its watch is to give it a bit of a curve similar to the Google Pixel watch Watch and likewise iu Apple Watch. It could be a combination of the best of both worlds, at least for users who agree that a curved smartwatch display looks better than the one used now and completely flat.
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But yes, we already have that here, and Samsung is sticking to its originality with the current design. However, I personally think that this might not be a bad evolutionary step. After all, the company can first try it on the basic line before providing it to the premium one in the form of the Classic and Pro models.
I wanted to replace watch 4 classics for 5 pro, but if they don't have a bezel, I gave up on it and I'll wait for 6 and I hope I'll have a bezel instead of a bezel-less watch, it breaks once or twice
Do they really break? Show me who watch 5 at least scratches you dude. There is a sapphire and I don't have the slightest problem with anything. Again, the guy wrote something that he didn't have on hand. 🙏👍👍 I applaud my mom
Such a shame that the watch has basically been exactly the same for 3 years.
The design is not fine-tuned for me. It bothered me how bad the basic ones were watche sits or rather does not sit on the hand. The strap doesn't go around the whole hand and the problem persists.
We also don't understand strap logic. On a smaller wrist it needs to go right away because it doesn't wear well and looks terrible.
No, on the contrary, that's the point. It's far better than a tight wrist strap. The beautiful hand doesn't sweat, great for me and I can't complain about it at all.
I got it galaxy watch 4 and I used them for a year with the original silicone strap and I can say that for people who sweat more it's a punishment... in the place under the strap I had red spots on my hand and finally I decided to buy a textile strap from Samsung, which solved everything . It would be more ecological to sell the watch in a box without a strap and let the customer choose from all the straps they offer as a bundle in some configurator. Better than sending it with a strap that most people immediately take off and throw in a drawer.