Watch Faces - we need new
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@Horizontal_2 I love it! With the AOD option, it’s a must-have these days
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@Manuel-Extreme Yeah, the AOD-style is quite nice as well. Whished that for more watch faces. I’d easily trade a 1% per day extra for a better AOD-version. It’s the one you’ll see most of the time. Maybe they could add some contourlines to the default watch face (AOD) of the V2.
Maybe it’s a watch face idea: a coniferous or deciduous watch face
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@Cyclepunk it depends on what you expect, if you want to have photorealistic tree with lights emulated by raytracing
than yes this is really bad watch face, but i think lot of people like its simpicity, even AOD version is elegant and minimalistic.I hope infuture suunto would open API for general public to develop own watch faces. It would allow to satisfy everyones needs.
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@Tomas5 Suunto has released an update for the Race (1) or the Run where you can add a picture as a watch face, right? That’s a start
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@Horizontal_2 that can be interesting
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@Horizontal_2 only for the RUN at the Moment
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Just to throw a thought in here, as a (newly minted) Run user: the barometer field needs some help. In Imperial units (which I as American have a love hate relationship with) it shows to the ones place for inHg—literally useless information because it would be the equivalent of showing only to the hundreds place hPa! And whats worse, the barometer trendline (far more useful, and a staple of suunto watches across decades of product lines) isn’t an option at all, despite showing up in the preview (alongside value, in the same field) for “Concentric Analog”. Not sure if that could be fixed faster since it applies uniformly to all existing watchfaces, but man alive is it annoying…
As for needing new designs, I agree with many on this thread that have pointed out a lot of the designs work quite well, and a lot of it comes down to taste. However, as the OP pointed out, there’s some very minor tweaks that could help tremendously, including functional changes like my above noted barometer problem…
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I agree,
we need new watch faces, or the existing ones need to be much more flexible and adaptable. We would need much more variables where you can simply define whether you want something or not, or in a different representation. -
@vinc14 i imagine that now when there is kind of “store” with watchfaces in suunto app and we can choose one to install to watch. There must be some universal API that this watch faces are using. I hope one day suunto will open it to public, provide some tools to develop them. Than comunity can handle it and provide hundreds of watchfaces.
I know some will say that bad watch face can cause problems, battery drain, crashes maybe. But proper API would prevent 99% of priblems. And than still suunto can allow to users to publish comunity watchfaces with some tag that is comunity watch face and state that comunity watch faces are not covered by warranty and customer support.
And i hope same for Suunto Plus apps.
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Sorry to disagree, I don’t need new watch faces.
More specifically, I prefer that Suunto developers focus on developing new functionalities and bugfixes in watch/app.
If they release a SDK so 3rd party people could develop new watchfaces, I will be happy to use new ones… but since only Suunto devs can do them, I will prefer they focus on new functionalities/bugfixes
BR
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@suzzlo totaly agree with this. For me current watch faces are enough, but i would like to try develop own if it was possible.
