Just wanted to express my enthusiasm about the circular display insert in the Garmin Instinct - how shall we call it, disc? eye?
The more I use the Instinct the more I realize that Garmin put REAL effort into how to leverage and best utilize this round insert. They went far beyond just using it as a gimmicky reference to the Casio G-Shock. I love that they customized the appearance of what are essentially little widgets or data fields specifically for that shape:
- the moon phase in the disc is nice and big, fits perfect into the circle of course
- the sun path between day and night is a nicely done circular shape
- the loading progress as a circle in the disc
- all the other watchface options customized for the full circle shape
- the activity icons when entering the activity choice
- the GPS connecting process
- the use of this disc as a separate data screen for the activies.
Well well done, Garmin. At first it seems a copy of the Casio's eyelet, but the more I use it the more it is clear that Garmin's use of this circle display insert is waaay more functional and elegant than Casio's.
How do others feel about the disc/eyelet/...?
