just got out of the movies

[extricated]

From recent reports, Apple's will be no different..

Source?


Again, this is a pretty easy thing to deal with.

I wasn't sure if the focus of your question was the "always on" issue or if it was directed at how your wrist has to be just right to activate the screen.
At any rate, the exchange reminded me of where the topic of screen activation (and movie theaters) was touched on very briefly in the recent New Yorker article:

... it seemed possible that the watch’s combination of distractions might, for some, be overwhelming. “I know,” Ive said. Like an iPhone, an Apple Watch is only “simple and pure”—to quote Ive’s film—until it’s a threat to sleep, solitude, or the happiness of someone near you in a cinema.
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The Apple Watch is designed to remain dark until a wearer raises his or her arm. In the prototypes worn around the Cupertino campus at the end of last year, this feature was still glitchy. For Marc Newson, it took three attempts—an escalation of acting styles, from naturalism to melodrama—before his screen came to life.

Naturally, they've had several months to work out the screen activation "bug". Surely it won't be an issue at launch.

 

[cmChimera]

I wasn't sure if the focus of your question was the "always on" issue or if it was directed at how your wrist has to be just right to activate the screen.
At any rate, the exchange reminded me of where the topic of screen activation (and movie theaters) was touched on very briefly in the recent New Yorker article:



Naturally, they've had several months to work out the screen activation "bug". Surely it won't be an issue at launch.

Yeah I was questioning the source that "recent reports" stating that in its current state, the Apple watch has difficulty with the raise to view feature. I see that as extremely unlikely.

That's an interesting article, but something I would expect in early stages. I agree that it won't be an issue when the Watch actually ships.

 

[Technodynamic]

some good responses in here. A good solution (from Apple) might be tying your location via GPS and ambient light to create a rule:

IF GPS shows you on premises of movie theater AND ambient light is dark, then raise to view feature is disabled and/or a special ultra dim mode is enabled.

 

[Julien]

some good responses in here. A good solution (from Apple) might be tying your location via GPS and ambient light to create a rule:

IF GPS shows you on premises of movie theater AND ambient light is dark, then raise to view feature is disabled and/or a special ultra dim mode is enabled.

...and if you left your iPhone in the car or at home what happens?

 

[Technodynamic]

...and if you left your iPhone in the car or at home what happens?

I guess rule doesn't apply and you have to manually put it on movie mode. But, neat automated rule otherwise, no?

 

[F apple FE]

That sounds cool and all, but the LG G watch is really ugly. So I mean, I'll take my daily charging.

Well, looks are totally subjective (for example I would never wear an Apple Watch, way too toyish and girlish to me) but I didn't chose it for looks, I chose it simply because I think it's technically the overall best smartwatch out there today.

Also, more or less everything I said about the G Watch applies to most other Android Wear smartwatches so if what I said "sounds cool" to you and looks are your only concerns, you can choose another one... (for example, the Asus ZenWatch looks like a better looking version of the Apple Watch, to me, more serious, more elegant, more "manly" and THINNER and less bulky...).

In the last few years I have been wearing a G-Shock (one of those models with analog hands as their primary function) and to me the best looking smartwatch is, today, the G Watch R but I think that square or rectangular displays are much better from a functional standpoint, for a smartwatch and its display is also too small for a smartwatch and above all it's thicker and bulkier than my G Watch (and yet still thinner than the Apple Watch which really is displeasingly bulky... the only device where Apple's obsession with thinness is really needed and would really pay off and they come up with one of the thickest and bulkiest smartwatch on the market LOL).

So, all in all the LG G Watch is one of the thinnest and lightest smartwatches around, has very good battery life, has a very simple, minimalistic and clean design with a big all-screen front face with no buttons/crowns and relatively small bezels = best overall choice right now, for me.

Ideally, the perfect smartwatch should look like a thinner and lighter version of the Samsung Gear S: a beautiful big rectangular curved display which can do seemingly everything (I didn't get it simply because it doesn' run Android Wear and thus lacks killer apps like Google Keep and Google Now). We will get there..

P.S. oh, and it doesn't hurt that I got it for just € 100 on a Google Play Store sale last Christmas... I figured that € 100 were very reasonable for trying a smartwatch and seeing if I liked them/found them useful enough to keep them (and maybe getting something more expensive/better).
Now, after 3 months I can say that those were one of the best € 100 I ever spent on gadgets and that I would choose again an LG G Watch even at its full price of € 199.

 

[cmChimera]

Well, looks are totally subjective (for example I would never wear an Apple Watch, way too toyish and girlish to me)

Right, ok.

but I didn't chose it for looks, I chose it simply because I think it's technically the overall best smartwatch out there today.

Which isn't saying much since, overall, smart watches aren't very good right now.

Also, more or less everything I said about the G Watch applies to most other Android Wear smartwatches so if what I said "sounds cool" to you and looks are your only concerns, you can choose another one...

They're all ugly in my opinion. My comment was sarcastic as well. I find the half baked mini versions of existing phone functions to be not very useful. I prefer Apple's implementation.

(for example, the Asus ZenWatch looks like a better looking version of the Apple Watch, to me, more serious, more elegant and more "manly"...).

Well to each their own. I have a different way of thinking when it comes to design so we won't agree.

 

[kdarling]

That's an interesting article, but something I would expect in early stages. I agree that it won't be an issue when the Watch actually ships.

That would be magic indeed.

Automatic display turn-on will always be an issue at times. Either it'll not turn on sometimes when you want it to, or it'll turn on too easily when you don't want it (like rolling over in your sleep).

Anyone who's owned a smartwatch that turns on with wrist movement knows this to be true. There's just no way around it.

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For easy example, imagine you're laying on your back with your girl snuggled up in your watch arm. Now you want to check the time. With an always-on watch, you can simply slowly rotate your wrist until you see the time. Done.

With an automatic watch, just that motion should not turn on the display. (If it does, then it's going to wake you up all night. Been there, done that.)

So you try to fool it by "flicking" your wrist a bit. Maybe that's enough, maybe it wakes her up too. Or maybe it's not enough, because it's programmed to only come on with a raise-wrist motion. Now you're really in trouble, because you cannot do that.
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Believe me, anyone with experience knows there is no universally perfect automatic "turn on" solution.

 

[cmChimera]

That would be magic indeed.

Automatic display turn-on will always be an issue at times. Either it'll not turn on sometimes when you want it to, or it'll turn on too easily when you don't want it (like rolling over in your sleep).

Anyone who's owned a smartwatch that turns on with wrist movement knows this to be true. There's just no way around it.

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For easy example, imagine you're laying on your back with your girl snuggled up in your watch arm. Now you want to check the time. With an always-on watch, you can simply slowly rotate your wrist until you see the time. Done.

With an automatic watch, just that motion should not turn on the display. (If it does, then it's going to wake you up all night. Been there, done that.)

So you try to fool it by "flicking" your wrist a bit. Maybe that's enough, maybe it wakes her up too. Or maybe it's not enough, because it's programmed to only come on with a raise-wrist motion. Now you're really in trouble, because you cannot do that.
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Believe me, anyone with experience knows there is no universally perfect automatic "turn on" solution.

The only thing your post tells me are that your current watches don't do this feature well. Since none of your watches are the Apple Watch, or some prior generation of the Apple Watch, I don't find your experience to be an indicator of the Apple Watch's performance.