Venu X1 screen size for the next descent model.

Ratio dive watches look cleaner and simpler, similar to venu 1 and 2

Maybe with new batteries and microled this will change.

The weird thing is as dive computer the mk3i is not small if all you do is dive with it, the issue is for everyday use its too big imo

7000518 said:

Ratio dive watches look cleaner and simpler, similar to venu 1 and 2, imo

Ahh.

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Noooo!

www.ratio-computers.com/.../62-idive-color-deep-0762307939659.html

That's on you. Next time, provide a link so people have a fighting-chance to know what the heck you are talking about.

Not a brand I was aware of.

It's not something many people are going to want to wear every day. (It's kind of unaesthetic.)

It never occurred to me there would be a watch brand called Ratio

Look up "Ratio dive watches". (And what I had to work with what "Ratio do idive watch".)

You were really talking about "Ratio dive computers".

(Always provide a link.)

In any case, it's round. So, it really doesn't match what you are looking for either.

(I think this is better looking: https://shearwater.com/products/teric )

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I think we have to assume that Garmin knows something about selling watches. So, it might make sense to produce the Mk3 as it is even if it isn't what one personally prefers.

7000518 said:

Ratio dive watches look cleaner and simpler, similar to venu 1 and 2

I don't think it looks that much cleaner than the F8. The F8, whatever it looks like, appears to be very popular.

7000518 said:

Maybe with new batteries and microled this will change.

What new batteries? I suspect a newer F8 will have the same sizes as the current ones. That is, Garmin won't make them smaller with any likely improvement in battery life.

7000518 said:

The weird thing is as dive computer the mk3i is not small if all you do is dive with it, the issue is for everyday use its too big imo

I said before that the Mk3 isn't too small as a diver computer. It's really too large for everyday where but that's another compromise.

Silicone anode batteries, greater energy density than Li ion

You won't see them in the successor to the F8. It might even be longer than even that.

And Garmin is fairly likely to keep the same size. (The battery life of the current 47mm F8 is kind of weak.)

(My rule about battery tech is that it's irrelevant until people actually start using it.)

Supposedly, the AMOLED screens provide more room for a bit bigger battery.