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  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    1 year ago

    Good to see minor battery life improvements to the Pixel Watch 2. Hopefully that upgraded heart rate sensor is actually accurate.

    https://youtu.be/TVGk48jcdtg

    Pixel Watch was embarrassingly bad in health tracking compared to the Apple Watch SE. It’s cheaper to get an Apple Watch SE + (discounted) iPhone than just a Pixel Watch.

    And please get rid of the Fitbit subscription, Google.

    • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      Yup, I considered the pixel watch for my android phone but Garmin has an advantage over it in every category while having no subscription. I would have considered an apple watch if it were compatible with android.

      I think the pixel watch is doomed to fail unless they can separate from the Fitbit model and continue to improve the hardware and software.

      • Cheesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I still wouldn’t consider an apple watch over a Garmin. Apple/Google/Samsung need to get their battery life on par with Garmin.

      • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        had no idea Google owned Fitbit. But looks like you don’t miss out on many features by not subscribing to the Fitbit pro thing. Could be wrong. But Yea screw a Fitbit subscription.

        • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          They moved detailed sleep tracking insights under the subscription model. It’s pretty disappointing.

          • zaph@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I can’t stand sleeping with a watch on so not getting the sub hasn’t bothered me a bit.

            • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Interesting! My smart watches are almost solely for sleep tracking and are used mostly as regular time pieces during the day.

              • newIdentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                I use my smart watch for 3 features

                1. As a watch
                2. For notifications
                3. For sleep tracking

                I don’t really do any sports, but it’s nice to know how many steps I took today and how far I walked. (it’s between 100m-20km per day)

          • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            What would be the difference (if there is one) from the detailed sleep tracking and non detailed version?

            • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Sleep phase details, which can be useful for monitoring sleep quality over time.

    • ink@r.nfEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      do you trust that guy because he calls himself a scientist or because he has fancy graphs, maybe his accent? hmm… must be the lab dress shown for 5 seconds in the intro.

      I saw both of his videos where he compares pixel watch and apple watch against polar h10 chest strap as a reference device, but somehow the reference device is ranked lower than apple device in his pixel watch ratings? How does that happen?

      how does a reference device wind up being less accurate against the device you are testing against? I couldn’t find him testing them against an actual medical equipment.

      Him comparing Apple watch against Polar H10: https://i.ibb.co/MnSJXR1/image.png

      His ranking when testing Google pixel watch where polar h10 is less accurate?: https://i.ibb.co/Xt9hS4J/image.png

      Google is shit at hardware and nobody wants a subscription for a watch but maybe, just maybe, this guy seems like a apple fanboy?

      The guy doesn’t reveal his data or the code he uses to plot the graphs, just 100s and 100s of affiliate links. How the hell people consider this scientific and why the fuck is it so popular?

      I’m no scientist but I don’t know. educate me