Preference for a 3- or 5-Button Configuration?

[freeheeler]

@Tomas5
you can operate the watch entirely without touch with few exceptions. the watch face complications can’t be changed/cycled by buttons.

regarding touch screen only, I don’t see this coming any time soon. adventure watches need to operate in all kind of conditions. we use our watches not only on a sunny 30min tuesday evening run in the city… when weather gets bad, buttons are the way to go

[Mff73]

@freeheeler said in Preference for a 3- or 5-Button Configuration?:

@Tomas5
you can operate the watch entirely without touch with few exceptions. the watch face complications can’t be changed/cycled by buttons.

regarding touch screen only, I don’t see this coming any time soon. adventure watches need to operate in all kind of conditions. we use our watches not only on a sunny 30min tuesday evening run in the city… when weather gets bad, buttons are the way to go

another exception (quite annoying in case of glove usage) : switching from zoom to full track view in navigation. Only single tap on the screen enable this

[freeheeler]

@Mff73
that’s valid for previous touch enabled watches, yes. not for Vertical

[Mff73]

@freeheeler
How do you know it won’t be the case for Vertical ? Will there be a special button pressing to switch from zoomed path to full navigated track?

[freeheeler]

@Mff73
2 things:

• 500m is max zoom level
• when you touch the map it will be to pan the map
  this makes tap to view full route impossible, no?

[Mff73]

@freeheeler
We will see next week

[Tomas5]

@freeheeler thats great and there is no problem with touch screen when raining? I mean in watch mode, doesn’t rain create some problems?

[freeheeler]

@Tomas5
in watch mode? I would say only as bad as with any other watch when no button is pressed, nothing happens

[Brad_Olwin]

@Tomas5 I have not had any issues in watch mode with rain. However, I am not interacting with the watch two to three times per minute either….

[mikekoski490]

@Tomas5 I just watched this really cool video review of the Vertical. It goes into some fantastic detail on the navigation features AND its done showing the touchscreen in the rain.

Shout out to this channel! I think I enjoyed it more than DCR or Desfit to be quite honest: Active Ideas:

https://youtu.be/Ldx_YPgU87c