I come back to this suggestion after a long time. Now, with my S7’s screen smudged/burned from use, selecting the correct sport mode is sometimes a challenge. It’s still readable, but sometimes if you want to make it fast you can mess up mostly with sports modes you don’t use often.
The light gray text, on the white background that is all stained with the gray of the marked screen, does not work well, not have good contrast, and you find that if you want to select a sports mode you have the main mode several times in a larger size, readable and in smallest and gray the most important that is the sport mode that you really want to select.
I think that if the field order was inverted on the watch it would be great since the most important thing is the sport mode you want to select and not which mode it belongs to, even when it is still ordered in the same way since it is logical that the main sport mode is the most important to create the order. Also the colour of the icon helps to easy differenciate to wich main sport mode belongs to.
Important note: on the photo the text is read a thousand times better than in real life, probably due to the size, light adjustment/focus of the camera, etc. In real life is totally less readable than on the photo.
Nowadays when I navigate into the sports mode on the S7, for example, I could see:
Running
Basic
Running
Race
Running
Interval
etc. and they grouped by the colour of the main activity, but I think that could be a great solution for this, at minus on the S7, only invert the display field on the SWA:
Basic
Running
Race
Running
Interval
Running
Thanks!
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