We also would have liked slightly stronger vibration alerts, as they’re easily missed even on the strongest setting. But apart from this negating the point of buying a smartwatch with a screen, we shouldn’t have to do it due to poor design. Thankfully, in the Oaxis Timepiece app you can turn off notifications entirely, or at least remove certain apps that may overload the screen with too many. This is ridiculously time intensive, and practically ruins the only good thing about the display in the first place - seeing your step count. There’s no clear-all option, and as notifications stack up, you have to press the crown to dismiss every screen individually before you get back to the standard step count and date screens. No excuses: Notifications must be glanceable on a wearable, and they’re not on the Oaxis Timepiece. Miss a screen, or misinterpret a long word spread across more than one screen, and the essence of the message gets lost. If you pay attention it’s possible to thread them all together in your head to get the gist of the message, but why should you? The Nokia Steel HR scrolls its messages across the screen, and doesn’t require multiple button presses and 100-percent attention to figure out what’s being communicated. Rather than scroll notifications across the two-line display, it shows notifications on a screen-by-screen basis, and then for good measure often makes them utterly impossible to read by just displaying a few letters at a time. But the notification delivery system is so bad, it’s almost laughable. It shows step count, calories burned, the date, the amount of battery life remaining, and heart rate clearly with a press of the crown (the crown is a button and does not rotate). If the oblong-in-a-circular hole aspect wasn’t bad enough, the Oaxis Timepiece’s screen flip-flops between being vaguely helpful to absolutely useless. Overall, we’re fans of the Timepiece’s minimalist style. We like the crown’s texture, despite not actually needing to grip it, but do feel it’s a little too large for the slimline body. The build quality is great, it’s not heavy, and the domed glass provides depth and shape to the face. This aside, the Oaxis Timepiece is an unobtrusive, subtle watch that will suit almost all wrist sizes. It’s one of those, “once-you-see-it” problems’ and has continued to irritate us when looking at the Timepiece. Worse, the corners of the oblong screen are slightly cut off by the circular hole, making it all look haphazard and poorly thought out. But upon closer examination there is one aspect we don’t like - the OLED screen is set inside a circular cutout, but is itself oblong. A silicone strap holds the Timepiece on your wrist, and it’s very comfortable. It’s slim enough to slip under a shirt sleeve, and because it’s not a big, shouty thing, this is arguably where it belongs. Aside from the Oaxis logo in the 9pm position, there’s no other visual flair, so it’s not a watch for attracting attention. This attracted a lot of grime and smudges during our time with the watch, despite it not being a touchscreen. ![]() The hands are red, and inexplicably so is the 4pm marker on the face, which is covered by what we think is mineral glass.
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