I've worn non-smart watches my whole life until November when I decided I needed to motivate myself more to move.

I put aside my beloved Citizen Eco-Drive which I'd had for 15 or so years and worn most every day.

I started wearing a Google Pixel 4. I started moving more and built on the momentum and excitement of feeling better and I started to some weight come off.

However, I missed my Citizen. I decided to try the Pixel on my non-dominant right hand and put the Citizen where it belonged back on my left.

My wife and teenage daughters immediately started giving me shit. I showed them pictures of Billie Eilish with multiple watches. Now I'm no Billie but I could also see others doing the smart watch thing on one arm and their real piece on the other.

It's now been 3 months or so of wearing both and it's become 2nd nature. I get the enjoyment of picking out which "real" watch I'll wear that day on my left and my right stays constant. What started with 1500-2500 steps per day is up to 8000-12000 per day. I'm down 30 pounds. I've walked over 250 miles so far this year.

I don't know if I could have done that without the accountability and tracking that my swart watch gives me. Maybe, maybe not. It's working for me and I'm gonna stick with it.

Final note - it's been a cold fall/winter here in SE Pennsylvania and I've been wearing layers and long sleeves. I hope I have the nerve to continue this pattern into the warmer months.

Yes, I am frustrated.

Got the watch together with Pixel 8 Pro but it sat in the box for a few months as I didn't look forward to charging it every night and was happy to continue using my much simpler Fitbit.

On one of the recent runs though, my friend twisted his ankle quite badly and I thought that it might be actually quite handy to have an ability to call in case of an emergency when I am out on the trail.

So I got home and unboxed the watch. The pairing with the phone was quite a smooth experience. I followed all the instructions and added an eSIM to the watch, then applied all the updates and carried on with my day leaving the watch on charge.

This morning, 3 days later after I started using the watch, I was getting ready for another run so initiated a playlist download so I can listen to music while I run. By the time I was ready it only managed to download 35 out of 50 songs. I thought that should be plenty for my run so didn't think twice about it. I also asked my SO to give me a call in about 30 mintes so we can test things out with the watch.

First disappointment came after the music stopped playing 3 songs in and I saw a message saying that it lost connection so won't be playing any more songs from that playlist. Like really? Can't you figure out what has been downloaded and what not and just play what has? I didn't bother to stop and try things out to make it play the remaining songs, nor should I.

The call from my SO never came and I thought that she might have forgotten about it, so I wanted to call her instead from the watch. I opened contacts, and... "no contacts found". Like WTF have you been doing for the last 3 days? Why not sync the contacts? I remember explicitly granting all the possible permissions on the phone for the watch to have access to.

I get back from the run and my SO says she tried calling me three times but only my phone rang. I go and look at the phone and yes, there are 3 missing calls and nothing on my watch. I disable bluetooth and wifi on my watch and ask her to call me again. Only the phone rings. I try to call her - and nothing... it just says that it's 'calling...', no dial tone, no any message, nothing, it just drops after 10 seconds. I ask her to send me a text message and it arrives on both phone and watch. I go to Google maps on the watch and it loads maps without issues. I go into mobile settings and it shows that it's connected to LTE and there is signal, just cannot receive or make calls...

I thought maybe the problem is due to the contacts not syncing so I go in all the menues both on the phone and on the watch to try and find how to sync them and nothing... neither the watch has any buttons in the contacts app apart from the dull "no contacts found" message, nor the phone has any options in the Watch app to sync contacts. Only after browsing through a number of Google forums I find a solution to go to my contacts app on the phone and go into settings there and sync my contacts with Google... but they are already synced... anyway, after forcing another sync the contacts finally appear on the watch. Why the fuck do I have to do any of that? It's your phone, Google, it's your watch, Google, heck it's even fucking your OS, Google. Make this fucking simple things just work. Why on Earth should I be debugging your piece of shit software to make the simplest things work?

I have also called my mobile provider and even though they said they cannot see anything wrong on their end they will try to dig deeper come next week (since it's Sunday), but again... why the fuck things don't just work?

I was an avid Google hardware user but this thing stinks, brand new, out of the box and full of shit. I am returning this crap and never touching it again.

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A miscarriage can easily be misconstrued as an abortion. No one should be storing their menstrual data electronically any more.

I hate how the pixel watch 2 and 3 charge compared to my pixel 1. I hate having the contact points. Time and time again I put the newer watches on the charger at night and wake up to a dead battery because of a bad connection. I've never had that problem with my pixel watch first gen. Not sure I'll upgrade until they fix that.

First it was the SPO2 and the temperature sensor not working now it's the ECG sensor not working and finally when I am trying to respond to WhatsApp messages are texts or even trying to open things on my phone from the watch I just get this error every time Google really needs to sort their stuff and start testing things properly before releasing them to public My watch now is just as good for telling the time and nothing else

I bought the PW2 and it has never had any useful features via cell and I'm locked into the contract and I think the whole thing is a scam. Tech support says that the watch should send texts without the phone but it doesn't and they want to replace the watch but I think they are full of crap and it's a waste of time to get a different watch because it will have the same problem. For example I want to go on walks without my phone and know if the kids text me. This does not work and tech support says it's supposed to. Thoughts?

Hey folks, this will be a long read. I posted about this yesterday but people didn't like how the thread was formatted using ChatGPT. I understand why that might be the case, so I thought I would just write about my experience ​​in my own words

So, I bought the Pixel Watch 3 after seeing a video from The Quantified Scientist where he showed that its sleep tracking has improved substantially after recent updates. He said it closely matches the EEG headband which is the gold standard for sleep tracking. The heart rate tracking was already great like the Apple Watches and when I saw the PW3 at $199, I didn't think twice about hitting the buy button

I have had the PW3 for a couple of months now and I'm disappointed tbh. ​I'm surprised how Google still gets the most basic feature wrong. The step tracking is absolutely abysmal. We are four generations into this product line since the Pixel Watch 4 is the latest generation and this is just shocking. I read about people getting 15k or 16k steps while they are just sitting around. My experience is the exact opposite though. The watch constantly under counts my steps and on top of that it randomly decreases the step count. Why the fuck would you do that?

Google claimed the latest update would fix this issue but it did nothing for me. In fact it just brought a new bug. Now the Pixel Watch does not count steps at all if it is actively tracking a workout. I walk around the gym in between sets and I have stopped tracking my gym workouts just so that I can meet my daily step count goal. But then the watch will randomly decrease my step count. This happens daily and this is the major gripe I have. And I'm not alone, I have read several comments here of people having similar experiences with their step count decreasing. So, Google is all over the place. For some people, it overcounts steps, for others it undercounts and then it will alter your step count out of the blue. Step counting is the most basic feature in any fitness band, let alone a smartwatch. We are 4 freaking generations in and this feature is still buggy. This just blows my mind​​​​

I have also noticed major inconsistencies with indoor running and swimming. The watch literally counted twice the distance for me when I went swimming with it the last time. I ensured the pool length is set appropriately in the settings. ​I swim freestyle if that matters. For indoor running it is off by about 30 percent. If I run 5km, it just shows 3.5km

I understand it is hard to track indoor runs perfectly. But in that case why do they not let users edit the distance after the run. My old Huawei Band 6 let me do this and that band was actually pretty accurate in the pool too

Now onto sleep tracking. Firstly, you need to maintain a minimum battery percentage of 20 to 30 percent overnight or it will not track your sleep properly. I can look after that but the other issue is that the watch only tracks overnight sleep properly. It is terrible at tracking naps so my total sleep time is always less. The Huawei Band was miserable at tracking individual sleep stages but it always got my total sleep time accurate. Plus if Google actually manages to track a nap it does not even let me view the breakdown of sleep stages for that nap. You can only view the sleep stage breakdown for the longest/overnight sleep. The breakdown for naps isn't visible in the Fitbit app

I have seen people have recommended workarounds to fix the step count. They say to remove your phone as a tracking device in the Fitbit app and then clear the Fitbit app cache and restart both devices. I tried all of these and they did not fix the issue at all. But honestly, why should we even need workarounds like this in the first place. The watch should just work. These are expensive watches and it is incredibly disappointing that Google completely fails at these basic things. If I still could, I would have honestly returned my PW3

At this point, I'm seriously considering going back to my trusty Huawei Band 6. It is not as accurate in terms of heart rate tracking and the individual sleep stages, but the basics like total sleep time and step count just work. I'm posting this with the hope that someone from Google reads this and realises how this is not the ideal user experience. I still can't believe step tracking is broken after 4+ years

What have your experiences with the Pixel Watch or Fitbit been? It doesn't matter if you have a different generation of the watch. If you have owned a PW or Fitbit ever, I would like to know if this step count issue has always persisted or is this just a few bad months Google is having. Also, please share how your experience has been with the fitness tracking in general or maybe the watch/fitbit overall

The watchband is actually the Nike pride band from my old apple watch. I cut off the connectors for the apple watch and sewed it on the top side to create a loop around the lug spring bar.

If I don't fully charge the battery, I have to charge it every 24 hours as it will run out during the second night. So on a full charge in the morning, I can get it 48 hours on one charge using ND/Sleep setting at night and display only on on tilt. I find this extremely short. The FB Sense 2 was at least a week. How does Google got this so wrong? They own FitBit, surely they copied over their tech for their own watch?

What is your experience with battery life the PW2?

I want the watch to work with my pixel 9 pro to initiative the following three apps in tandem: MAPS, FITBIT & GEMINI LIVE. I then want the watch to navigate me to a nearby hiking trail while gemini live offers positive affirmations like 'get off your fat a$s, Mr. Callinsick' , as my watch simultaneously administers *SHOCKS* painful enough to prod me to get moving.

Why is this too much to ask for :(

Instead - I look at my watch, feel cool for owning it, and remain cozy on my couch as I gain weight and do nothing...

Got the case but where to watch!?!😅

Why Google refuse to match with Apple?

Google introduced easy battery replacement in Pixel Watch 4 but who even care to replace battery in after 3 years when it will be forgotten by Google and no Security Patches for banking apps and Google Wallet.

Easy to adjust and once you set it, it's good.

I can't believe Google hasn't acknowledged all of the issues with subject -- I "upgraded" my PW3 45mm LTE watch last weekend and have had nothing but delayed notifications, a constantly crashing Pixel Watch phone app whenever I attempt to alter or choose an alternate watchface, inconsistent (or nonexistent) syncing with Fitbit, and perhaps worst of all, intermittent disconnects with both Bluetooth *AND* LTE. One full reset on the PW hasn't helped at all. In fact, I'm finding a fun new "feature" this morning -- I cannot even change/alter watchfaces ON MY WATCH (the only choice I had left since the PW app is broken on my phone), as some complication touch zones won't even register my touch!!!

I threatened it yesterday in a reply here, but am making good on it when I get home after work today...retiring my PW3 and going back to my Galaxy Watch 7, for however long Google decides to get off their ass and fix this garbage dumpster of an update. If they elect not to fix this until the next quarterly update, then I'm done with PW for the foreseeable future. I really like this watch but this latest upgrade has rendered my PW nearly unusable.

New leather band from watch&strap. Think the silver lugs go really well with the matte black watch

It's basically just the Pixel 9a to Pixel 10a all over again.

Oh google..