The review may have waxed eloquent about the watch but Oneplus and Ticwatch still lasted way longer in terms of battery life (in fact, Samsung 's Tizen OS watches were hitting the 3 day mark).
Second, and this is purely from personal anecdote of wearing of Galaxy Watch 6, that one thing smartwatches suck at is displaying time. The AOD (unless raise to wrist is awake) is so dim as to be useless in my area due to the intense sunlight.
Apps are somewhat buggy right now. My shokz will partially disconnect after the first song and exercise audibles are non-existent. (The audio mutes, but the watch still responds to play/pause button presses. This could be just an issue with the shokz app being confused for the time being.)
No difference in GPS connect time from the pixel watch 3, which has been historically buggy at times.
But yeah, random glitches all over the place. It’s tolerable enough and would expect app updates to fix most of them.
After having almost every iteration of an Android watch I switched to Gaming last year. Have not missed a single thing about android or that ecosystem with all the fitness insights Android can’t do today.
I’m literally still rocking a watch 3 I bought 5 years ago. Even as old as it is, I’m still getting like 2-2.5 days out of its battery going for a run every morning. And I’m supposed to buy a new watch with that little battery life right out of the box? Nah.
Enshittified garbage. I bought the last generation and it’s unusable unless you fully submit to the Google shackles. Didn’t even want to have the damn thing in my house and took it back.
I heard of it. It is shipping in two variants, right? I just hope it makes general availability worldwide and not just a handful of countries (looks at Fairphone).
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Apps are somewhat buggy right now. My shokz will partially disconnect after the first song and exercise audibles are non-existent. (The audio mutes, but the watch still responds to play/pause button presses. This could be just an issue with the shokz app being confused for the time being.)
No difference in GPS connect time from the pixel watch 3, which has been historically buggy at times.
But yeah, random glitches all over the place. It’s tolerable enough and would expect app updates to fix most of them.
This would be so nice if it was FOSS
After having almost every iteration of an Android watch I switched to Gaming last year. Have not missed a single thing about android or that ecosystem with all the fitness insights Android can’t do today.
So yes, Android watch is now worth zero to me.
You mean Garmin?
Man yes auto corrected meesed this one up. Garmin Fenix.
I’m literally still rocking a watch 3 I bought 5 years ago. Even as old as it is, I’m still getting like 2-2.5 days out of its battery going for a run every morning. And I’m supposed to buy a new watch with that little battery life right out of the box? Nah.
I got a 3 with my phone, and cannot be bothered - unless someone manages to break it and work out a custom OS situation, the thing is worthless to me.
Enshittified garbage. I bought the last generation and it’s unusable unless you fully submit to the Google shackles. Didn’t even want to have the damn thing in my house and took it back.
Only got the 1st gen because it was free with the Pixel 7 Pro.
But if I heard it right, my next could be an Xperia Phone.
If only I didn’t wear analog watches, Google
Friendly reminder that pebble watches are coming back
I heard of it. It is shipping in two variants, right? I just hope it makes general availability worldwide and not just a handful of countries (looks at Fairphone).
I can’t imagine continuing to buy into the android ecosystem at this point.
I would never consider a smartwatch that is locked to one ecosystem, so Pixel watches have no appeal