I have a Huawei Watch (1st gen) [1], and have been using it nearly daily for a couple years now. I liked the round form factor because IMHO it looks nicer, and

I have a Huawei Watch (1st gen) [1], and have been using it nearly daily for a couple years now. I liked the round form factor because IMHO it looks nicer, and choose this one because at the time it was one of the few that didn't have the "flat tire" on the bottom. It's thicker than my other (non-smart) watches, but not to an extent it's obtrusive in any way. I wear it most of the day and don't really notice it. As far as the software part of the UX, a lot of it depends on what you do. I basically use my watch for a couple things: * to tell the time, see my agenda and check the weather (all of which I can do from the watchface or 'home' screen) * to get notifications of meetings and messages (and sometimes reply with a quick 'yes' or 'no' type message) I can see why reading text on a circular screen is theoretically sub-optimal, but in practice it's not really noticeable as you scroll through. I don't really read long messages on it -- I'm mostly skimming it to see if I can respond quickly now, or if I need to get out my phone/laptop to read and/or respond now. The vast majority of messages I get can wait, and being able to tell that with a glance of my wrist (almost zero interruption) is quite handy. There's a bunch of other apps available of course, but I found there's just not many good use cases for why using the app on a tiny screen is worth saving the 5 seconds it takes to retrieve my phone from my pocket and unlock it. I don't think this is an issue at all of round vs square screen, at least not for what I personally thing a smart watch is useful for. Most of my interactions with my watch last for under 10 seconds. If you're doing more intensive things (using it minutes at a time) then maybe there's merit to why a larger rectangular screen is more useful -- but frankly, you probably have a much larger, better and significantly more usable rectangular display in your pocket, so it seems silly to argue about the watch display. [1] https://www.techwalls.com/huawei-watch-review-android-smartwatch/ https://www.techwalls.com/huawei-watch-review-android-smartw...