Poll: Which Wear OS smartwatch shape is best, round or square?

Smartwatches didn’t just happen overnight, and we’ve seen a lot of different attempts at making them work in the years leading up to what we have now. Some of those very early efforts were basically just tiny phones that would awkwardly strap to your wrist, but eventually we moved into our modern era of intentional, watch-first designs.

Even there, we’ve seen a lot of variation in the decade-plus since getting Android Wear (and now, Wear OS). Early efforts like the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live used rectangular screens, before the Moto 360 and its oh-so-nearly circular “flat tire” display started introducing us to the possibilities of smartwatches that were round.

While Apple’s still running strong with its rectangular watches, the Android world feels like it’s largely committed to shifting its focus over to circular screens. From the Galaxy Watch to the Pixel Watch series, we’re looking at round displays everywhere we turn — even as we recently checked out evidence of Samsung thinking about a “squircle” shape for Galaxy Watch 8 models, the company seems content to keep the screen round.