i want to know who designed this..i mean seriously ????
If you push the top right button, the LG Watch W7 mechanical hands move out of the way so you can read your notifications. It sort of works.pic.twitter.com/YmuPrAQDEz
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Someone at LG trying to balance battery life and time display with smartwatch functionality. If you prioritize the former over the latter, it’s not a crazy compromise.
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Wait, the hands are mechanical?
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That’s the whole point of the design. Turn the screen off and the Watch W7 is a watch for 100 days before needing to be recharged.
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It's a good idea, but it could have been handled so much better. The screen should be split into two horizontal sections, one with notifications and the other with some other info. Pressing the button could then simply straighten out the hands to be in between the two sections.
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That’s nice, but WearOS doesn’t work that way.
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That's the problem: first Google decides what the OS will do and what it won't, without any skin in the game, and then manufacturers try to cram it into their own physical products
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You just described Android as well as anyone.
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It’s like one of those videos of a drunk Russian hitting themselves on the head with a shovel.
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The Google Wear OS guy insisted that the hands disappear (you stop noticing them) after you wear it for a week or so. I’m ...skeptical.
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Try it and let me know!
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I don’t have a review unit yet, but I certainly hope to.
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It looks like a swimmer doing the butterfly stroke.
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It’s the motion of the info on the display while the hands are moving out of the way that makes it look that way.
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Right idea to use a bi-directional gearbox to move the hands. But the execution of the hand movement and synchronization with the screen display is terrible. Is this a production release or beta?
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Almost certainly beta - LG gave out phones to some journalists ahead of the event, but no watches.
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Ugh... Why is the text even moving? And then moving back? The hands could have moved without the text scrolling: 43 min to work <-----o---------> Oxford St WTF?!
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I think — think — the idea is that the text has to move because you’re using your free hand to push the button, so there’s no way for you to scroll. But, yeah.
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Ok, but then why doesn’t it continue slowly scrolling so you can read? In your video the text moves too much to be readable… It’s a mess!
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