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Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by saidinesh5 »

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!

I tested out Pixel 3 (or 4 .. i don't remember at this point). The 30 hours is when you have all the functionality enabled all the time. Like the always on display, always on notifications etc ...

I used to auto set the watch into DnD / battery saving mode at night, and used the "raise hand to turn on the display" functionality.. I used to get 3-4 days of continuous use.

Charging used to be like "put the watch into charger after waking up. It'll be ready by the time you get ready for office".

I did miss the 30 day battery life of my Amazfit bip and 2 week battery life of Pebble before that.. but charging once a week wasn't all that bad...

But again, I mostly used my Pixel watch as a fitness tracker. Didn't really care for most of the apps - except maps.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by shrx »

aliasxneo wrote: post #60

I've mostly moved on to screen-less wearables for health metrics now. Not only do you get a ridiculously large battery life (measured in days) but I also found that it means more time and attention was put into the things I care about versus trying to support whatever garbage wearable OS they try to integrate with (or worse, roll their own).

My Garmin Instinct 3 Solar watch (which has a display) has a battery life measured in _weeks_.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by mathgeek »

cyberax wrote: post #29

Still no rectangular phone option. WTF is wrong with Google? Round watches are not cool. They end up inconvenient and uncomfortable.

This was my thought as well. That round watch gif that shows rectangular widgets is painful to look at.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by exabrial »

I don't think I want anything google attached to my body. I don't need AI training on my heartbeat or whatever bullshit they'll come up with.

Their brand is so toxic with the forceful rollout of their AI stuff. Staying far far the hell away.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by partiallypro »

SirMaster wrote: post #36

Interesting they are still going with round. Most of the UI shots look awkward on a round screen with anything not in the very center getting cut off a bunch.

The round just looks better and far fewer people actively use the interface on the watch other than looking at the time or marking a workout. I think the squircle watches like Apple's look odd.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by summermusic »

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!

I'm enjoying 20 days of battery life on my Pebble Time 2

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by jeffbee »

Handy-Man wrote: post #55
jeffbee wrote: post #3

Only $250 for the LTE version for Google Fi subscribers. But having to charge every day seems like a major regression compared to Garmin. I do appreciate that they are competing on location accuracy, though. Apparently the GPS is computed in the cloud, which means this only works given LTE coverage or if you also carry your paired smartphone. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pix...

> Only $250 for the LTE version for Google Fi subscribers Where are you seeing that? I only see $499 with up to $125 off for trade-in.

On credit its $10/mo for 24 months.

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by breppp »

impulser_ wrote: post #51
bravura wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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)

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by ChemSpider »

gavinray wrote: post #8

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?

Re: Pixel Watch 5

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Post by tlhunter »

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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