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30 hours of battery life is a deal breaker. I don't want to charge my watch every day. I've been using the Garmin Forerunner for a few years now and the battery life is 2 weeks!
30 hours of battery life is a deal breaker. I don't want to charge my watch every day. I've been using the Garmin Forerunner for a few years now and the battery life is 2 weeks!
but Garmin software sucks. my next watch will be an Apple Watch.
I like how the footnotes are all broken. Like the repairability footnote links to charging. Lots of money was spent making that website.
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If it charges fast enough this shouldn't matter. You just charge it while you take a shower and as long as it charges enough for the day it fine.
You sound like the sales rep at the Apple store. I was perplexed. Meanwhile, I had to wonder how many people take showers that are over half an hour every day.
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I usually wake up place my watch on the charger grab the clothes I'm wearing go brush my teeth take a shower get dress and get ready for the day then grab the watch off the charger and it fully charged everytime. I don't get the people that need to wear it 24/7 for days at a time.
> I don't get the people that need to wear it 24/7 for days at a time. I think that's kinda expected when the device itself is supposed to give you the illusion it is always there tracking your health (even when sleeping)
30 hours of battery life is a deal breaker. I don't want to charge my watch every day. I've been using the Garmin Forerunner for a few years now and the battery life is 2 weeks!
Keep in mind Google owns Fitbit and Fitbit has watches with 7 day battery life. Pixel is for techies, Fitbit is their health tracking product.
The Fitbit app has been replaced by the Google Health app. Other than the Fitbit Air released this year and the Fitbit Ace for kids, the last Fitbit device was released in 2023. Both of those newer devices are reduced functionality versions of older Fitbit products.
Most useful bit of the announcement, coming to all Google wearables it seems: Blood pressure, sleep breathing, and insulin sensitivity trends > Built on state-of-the-art Health Foundation Models trained on billions of minutes of sensor data from opted-in users and rigorously validated against gold-standard clinical measurements, these models power three new monthly trend summaries: blood pressure trends, sleep breath…
"insulin resistance trends" - whaaaaat? how would they do THAT? That would be huge for so many people, including diabetics, obese people or women with PCOS (PCOS alone affects more than 10% of women of reproductive age) Is that measurement accurate? Like, a person starts taking Metformin -> and a few days later the watch detects a drop in insulin resistance?
That image also implies that not only does it know trends, but it also has an absolute good/bad value.
Most useful bit of the announcement, coming to all Google wearables it seems: Blood pressure, sleep breathing, and insulin sensitivity trends > Built on state-of-the-art Health Foundation Models trained on billions of minutes of sensor data from opted-in users and rigorously validated against gold-standard clinical measurements, these models power three new monthly trend summaries: blood pressure trends, sleep breath…
"insulin resistance trends" - whaaaaat? how would they do THAT? That would be huge for so many people, including diabetics, obese people or women with PCOS (PCOS alone affects more than 10% of women of reproductive age) Is that measurement accurate? Like, a person starts taking Metformin -> and a few days later the watch detects a drop in insulin resistance?
I’d love to read more about what this is, and what technical signals / data they’re using.
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It's less of a big deal than I thought it'd be. I switched from a Garmin to an Apple Watch - which has less battery life - for some development work I had to do and it turned out I barely noticed. Charge phone, charge watch, charge headphones just became a nightly checklist.
But unlike headphones and your phone, you want to wear your watch at night to monitor sleep At least that's a major selling point for these smart watches
