The bezels around the display are also thick, but that is something we've come to expect from devices with
square watch faces.
All - in - all, this is the watch to get if you
like square watches, but aren't satisfied with the rest of the competition.
While this review has been written mostly from the perspective of a round watch,
several square watches with Android Wear 1.3 have been used as well.
Unlike some competitors that only
offer square watches, Android Wear is a platform built on the idea of delivering both square and round watches as it should be.
The app launcher has been tweaked: Apps now wrap around in an arc across the side of round screens (Chang told VentureBeat the design
for square watches has not yet been finalized).
After we married, we moved to China, where seven months later we found ourselves standing on the edge of
Tiananmen Square watching troops fire their automatic weapons at prodemocracy protesters.
There are lots of romantic taverns where you can linger over lunch, and then spend an hour or two on the
main square watching the world go by.
The Manhattan model seen here, along with the Soho and
Times Square watches, all cost $ 180 and come with a free engraving offer.
The ZenWatch 2, finished in stainless steel, also cuts a certain dash with a
rounded square watch face.
The move to a circular display comes after two generations of
decided square watches from ASUS — both the ZenWatch and ZenWatch 2 featured rounded rectangular designs.
Apple Watch is the obvious choice being an iPhone user, but I really don't
like square watches.
If you
prefer square watches, we would recommend you folks to get the Gear Live, because it's much more stylish and premium looking than the G Watch, and if you prefer round watches, go for the Moto 360.
Until now, Garmin's Vivoactive line of wearables has stuck with a more angular design; the original Vivoactive sported
a square watch face, while the second generation Vivoactive HR had a rectangular one.
A larger display and a bit more polish are noticeable at first glance, with the new watch being a nice update from even the Pebble Time, maintaining
the square watch design.
The No. 1 G2 takes after Samsung's hard square design with curved top and bottom edges, but is still
a square watch in the end.
Square watches inherently eschew the look of a smartwatch, and you're likely going to turn more heads with a square watch instead of a round one just because of that.
The square watch face is now circular and the rubberized strap is now genuine leather, transforming the G Watch R into more of a classic timepiece than a geeky appendage.
The square watch face has a 1.63 - inch Super AMOLED display and a 320 x 320 resolution that provides a remarkably vivid 278 pixels - per - inch picture.
Square watches are certainly in thanks to the smartwatch trend, and Asus» take on the square watch trend is to make its watches look more like pebbles you'd find in a Zen garden.
The Gear S2 is the first round smartwatch from Samsung, replacing all
those square watches that we've seen until now.
That's two
square watches and a circular one.
The Gear Live is
a square watch that works in conjunction with a connected Android smartphone to offer information, respond to voice commands, and deliver alerts.
Which is to say, it's still
a square watch.
The Fitbit Ionic is comfortable, slim and flush against your skin, but design-wise it looks different to the Vivoactive 3 - and arguably not as good - thanks to
the square watch face.
Now, the larger version of the ZenWatch 2 has been updated with the ability to make and take phone calls, and given its price and attractive design,
this square watch is one of the offbeat, yet compelling options out there.
When it comes to the design, Sony decided to go a slightly different route compared to other OEMs, opting for
a square watch face, and a general look and feel of a fitness band, as opposed to a traditional watch.
This render showed
a square watch face with a metal chain - link band, not unlike the Pebble Steel.