No issues for me with my four Garmins over the years, but I know from reading Garmin forums that their watches aren't perfect. To each their own, I guess.
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Google's New Pixel Watch vs. Apple Watch Series 8
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That's interesting. I'd always heard that the more physically fit you are, the lower your resting heart rate. Thanks for sharing that.
It's not for me, I much prefer the design of the more recent Apple Watches but the Pixel watch will be fine for some people. As for the bezels, on the Apple Watch series 1-3 the bezels were huge and they still sold quite a few of those.
Captain Trips:
Look at the size of those bezels.
Red Leader:
Cut the chatter, Captain Trips.
Shout out to Star Wars for the original quote.
Look at the size of those bezels.
Red Leader:
Cut the chatter, Captain Trips.
Shout out to Star Wars for the original quote.
What type of workouts? Outdoor running more than 5 miles? Playing music while doing so? I find indoor cardio/strength workouts don’t really tax it as much as GPS tracking does. Plus having less sensors probably helps your battery cause.
I’m guessing I’d need to disable my always on display to push mine as far as 30 hours. Sure I’d like to not worry about charging every night but I don’t care about sleep tracking so it doesn’t bother me to put it on the charger when I go to bed.
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The size of the fonts aren't the same, the pixels time is 2 sizes up from the apple watch
Okay, I’ll play. Here’s a visual perspective for you.
I’m well aware the aren’t the same size. The “almost” I added in there is nowhere close to me saying “exactly”.
I also said AW’s digits took up a sixth of the screen when it actually takes up a 1/10. So even if the font was the same size of the Pixel, it would be an 1/8. And my bad, the Pixel fits three. With BEZELZILLA I could put four, but it would cut off numbers.
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Depends on what you want out of it.
I wear a regular old watch myself and love it for what it does and how it looks (and the fact that I never have to charge it or even change a battery). At the same time, if it tracked movement, heart rate, etc and maybe threw up a notification or two from my phone, that could be handy. Maybe I'm an outlier in this conversation, but I have zero interest in displaying much text or interacting with the thing, and put more of a premium on the way it blends in aesthetically. I'm interested in the sensors and connecitivity to my iPhone, but not particularly keen on strapping a rectangular glass lozenge to my wrist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I haven’t yet seen a mention of the haptics on this Pixel Watch. For me, the haptic notifications when I’m driving are really important. I’ve talked about this on the forum before: when I’m driving a carload of people or kids talking, I can’t necessarily hear my iPhone navigation directions. I rely on the wrist taps to let me know of upcoming turns and needed lane changes.
I missed all of that when I tried a Samsung watch and a Fitbit.
I missed all of that when I tried a Samsung watch and a Fitbit.
Spot on.
It's very hard to argue that the Google watch is as practical as the Apple watch in delivering the functionality that Google and Apple want to. But some people don't care so much about that functionality and just like the look of a round watch. (I usually wear a mechanical watch.)
Walking over five miles. Which does include GPS.
No, I'd do that from the phone (I can see how you might want to avoid that when running
). I haven't tested how playing via Bluetooth affects battery life.Yeah, that's plausible. Some of my workouts are indoor HIIT, but the very long ones are outdoor and do involve GPS.
FWIW, no always-on display on my SE 2, so I can't comment on that part.
Right. If you don't use sleep tracking, it's probably best to just get a nightly charging routine.
But I do, so it's unfortunately more of a "gotta remember about the battery life every other day" thing.
Comparing to an Apple Watch seems rather pointless when one has to use a Android phone to use this watch or an iPhone to use the Apple Watch. Its not like we can cross systems here. If one uses Apple products they are pretty much stuck with the Apple Watch. If one uses Android products they are pretty much stuck with this watch.
It would have been nice for Google to make a watch that could attempt to be more universal to truly compete with the Apple Watch. The fact that it requires an Android phone to pair pretty much means its dead in the water for me.
I'm getting a bit tired of car/phone features and watches being system dependent. I don't really want to invest in either thats stuck only working with one type of phone. Instead of wasting time going after app stores and lightning cables I wish the EU and other regulation bodies would instead focus on cars, watches and other wearable devices having a more universal standard for connection. Much like a printer or hard drive can be used on any type of computer.
It would have been nice for Google to make a watch that could attempt to be more universal to truly compete with the Apple Watch. The fact that it requires an Android phone to pair pretty much means its dead in the water for me.
I'm getting a bit tired of car/phone features and watches being system dependent. I don't really want to invest in either thats stuck only working with one type of phone. Instead of wasting time going after app stores and lightning cables I wish the EU and other regulation bodies would instead focus on cars, watches and other wearable devices having a more universal standard for connection. Much like a printer or hard drive can be used on any type of computer.
Don’t know what to tell you. Go for it if you want it but like I said you can get a better watch for a lot less.
Doing that well requires a lot of integration and stuff running in the background, which is severely limited for third parties in iOS.
Yes, I think "the only smartwatch that integrates well into iOS happens to be Apple's own, and there's not much a third party can do about that" (see also: AirPods) are more pressing issues than "what if you only needed one charging cable".
I never said u couldn't. But all the reviews say it doesn't feel cheap and the UI is not laggy.
Yes, we have two cars. One has Carplay and that makes it easy to use Maps for navigation. The other one is older and doesn’t have CarPlay. It’s too hard to keep an eye on the phone but my Apple Watch gives haptic feedback and shows wha the next turn is so it is much easier to follow while driving. Agree that the voice prompts can get lost, but the Watch is dependable. I’m sure that the Pixel watch is similarly useful for this.
Analog clocks are round because they came from the sundial. They are essentially mechanical sundials. Watches are round because for most of their existence analog clocks were the only clocks.
Notice the first digital watches were square. When you go from displaying an analog clock to wanting to display text, round is no longer the best choice.