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Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by kgabis »

wkjagt wrote: post #300

I have been wearing my Casio F91W for so long I can't even remember buying it, and I'm not even a power user of this watch (never use the alarm or stop watch). I wouldn't even know what to do with a smart watch. I'm sure people do more with their smart watches but I have a hard time imagining they actually do a lot with them. Unless I've really been living under a rock?

Fitness tracking, accident detection and not needing to take your phone with you because you can still use your watch in case of emergency (if you have cellular connection).

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by zipy124 »

impulser_ wrote: post #25
tuckwat wrote: post #2

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!

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.

So I have to bring a charger when going camping/multi-day hike etc... This is a rather big deal-breaker. I can go up to the glacier for a few days of mountaineering with my Garmin and not worry about it. (the same as if I had an apple watch ultra)

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by phrotoma »

belZaah wrote: post #234
edent wrote: post #81

I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. Wh…

Maybe it’s niche, but if you do endurance sports like triathlon, you can easily become a power user. I think I did. You constantly look at your watch during workouts. It does navigation on trails, it measures your heart rate, tracks workouts, keeps pace during races. The metrics it gathers about hrv, sleep, rest hr etc are vital to adjusting the routine. It acts as a data recorder for multiple sensors: hr strap does…

I've got a pixel watch and would love to use it for navigation while running but (admittedly without much in the way of trying) haven't stumbled across a way to do this. What do you use to make it do that? Strava?

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by wincy »

Manfrednotfunny wrote: post #279
edent wrote: post #81

I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. Wh…

Im still giving myself the illusion that tracking my sleep is doing anything relevant. I sleep bad -> buy watch -> watch tells me I sleep bad -> win/win? In the gym, i use the timer. But is it worth it to carry a watch all the time, keep it charged etc. for a timer? I'm considering buying a timer for the gym. We just do'nt need a lot of tech in reality.

My watch tells me I sleep amazing and I wake up feeling like crap. No idea why, but also have no idea what to do about it.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by phrotoma »

saghm wrote: post #154
kibwen wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear, reducing the friction to becoming mentally enslaved to notifications is not a good thing.

That seems extremely overdramatic for what amounts to a personal choice that doesn't disrupt anyone else.

A dear friend was one of the first people I knew to get an apple watch, that mf will stop midsentence (his or anyone else's) to stare at his fuckin watch like once a minute. Convenient, sure I guess. "Non disruptive" - nope.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by net01 »

ValentineC wrote: post #214
varispeed wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Combined with poor battery life, this is quite pointless. I can imagine that would be okay if the watch lasted for a full month, then you could buy two watches and swap them out every now and then.

> Combined with poor battery life, this is quite pointless. Seems like it'll work with the Fitbit Air too. That has a 7 day battery life.

> 7 day battery life Been using the fitbit air since day 1 and it never died on me. Charge it when I shower. The only issue is the fabric strap is getting dirty, and the sensor gets a bit dirty (dead skin, etc.) compared to an Apple Watch.

Other than that, it's spectacular, and now with Apple Health, it's on par if not better than the Apple Watch. apple health only synced to the 4-5 of July, though. :/

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by chanux »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #286

> AI, Advanced Gemini, Google Health Coach The fitbit users already have "google heath coach" in the latest googlified version of the app. And https://www.reddit.com/r/fitbit/ is full of commentary on how laughably crap it is. I'd pay more to avoid this kind of "feature".

Thank you, this made me feel glad I switched back to Xiaomi.

Battery life Time Vibrating alarms Sleep/Step tracking

Happy with these (and the ux and price)

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by mbirth »

edent wrote: post #81

I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. Wh…

I'm fully locked into Apple Watches as I'm using these features regularly. Not sure whether that counts as a power user.

- Time

- Notifications (also: dismissing a notification on the watch also removes it from the phone)

- Smart Stack (relevant info pops up automatically)

- Wakeup alarm

- Timers

- Payments

- Express Travel mode (yes, I'm aware of the vulnerability)

- Siri (especially great with the upcoming Siri AI)

- Medication tracking

- Heart rate monitoring, Sleep tracking, Sleep apnoea detection, ECG

- Phone calls while the phone is in a different room

- controlling Home devices

- automatic tracking of hikes or walks

Charging has never been an issue for me. I put it on the charger while I sit at the computer or game console in the evening and when I go to bed later, it's fully charged and ready for the night and the next day.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by odiroot »

edent wrote: post #81

I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. Wh…

For me, showing the time, calendar notifications and turn-by-turn navigation with Google Maps is all the smartwatch has to offer. Sleep tracking is a good extra. That's it.

Pebble was great at providing that, with crazy good battery life.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by wraptile »

rf15 wrote: post #268
wraptile wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been really enjoying the reboot of Pebble with their new Time 2 for a few months now. I'm using ForecastWatch 2 watch face which crams calendar, watch and weather data into one screen and it's perfect. Lasts weeks on charge too. For apps their built-in workout apps etc are perfectly fine and I built some of my own apps quite easily. My only complaint is that app limitation are apollo moon lander level of bad, li…

> but building fun stuff is really hard with these limitations What is your idea of fun stuff? Code and data is cheap enough with these constraints, though fancy graphics are what will eat your budget.

One obvious app I tried to build here is a calendar with a daily message and I've tried to include a little graphic emoji with each day. You can't do that because you can only fit around 100 emoji graphics and the font on Pebble Time 2 only has 50 emojis. So at best you can get 150 icons which is not enough for unique icon for each day. This is kinda sad in 2026 ngl.
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