Pixel Watch 3 Review: Time To Grow Up

Опубликовано 10 октября 2024, 22:45

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//GOOGLE PIXEL WATCH 3 REVIEW

All the new smartwatches we're getting in 2024 have put me in mind of the smartwatches of 2014. Ten years ago (after the Pebble had primed us all to accept a little second screen on our wrist), Android Wear hit the scene to show us what was possible with a platform that included hardware from many different manufacturers. And for the better part of the next decade, Google continued its strategy of letting those hardware partners iterate on design, while it reinvented (then re-re-invented, then rebooted entirely) the underlying software. As someone who values choice in design, especially on wearables, I loved how this strategy was the polar opposite of Apple’s – and I so badly wanted it to work out.

Turns out, Android Wear was one of those things that makes all the sense in the world on paper … but doesn’t survive the slings and arrows of reality. So about two years ago, Google made a big pivot, de-emphasizing its wide portfolio of partners in favor of Samsung … and itself. The Galaxy Watches would get new features under a familiar Samsung skin, while the renamed Wear OS would take its ultimate form on Google’s own Pixel Watch.

Well apparently the new approach is working well enough, because here we are on generation 3 of that reformulation: past the honeymoon phase, through early attachment … and now we’re settling in, getting a little bigger and seeing if this can really work for the long run. I’m Michael Fisher and I’ve spent six weeks with the Pixel Watch 3.


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MrMobile's Google Pixel Watch 3 Review was produced following six weeks with a Pixel Watch 3 review sample provided by Google. Pre-production device running release software.

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[CHAPTERS]

00:00 It might be time
01:56 Bigger watch, bigger possibilities
02:59 Get this rubber offa me
04:34 Surfshark
05:27 There's more to smartwatches than fitness
07:43 Odds and ends
09:29 Get it from a carrier (if you can)
10:42 At the end of the day
11:31 Disclosures


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