Google Pixel Watch 4 colors and sizes leak
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- Eudyptula
- 3ZU
- 13 Jul 2025
This might ruffle some feathers, but modern and mainstream smartwatches are pretty bad, especially the round ones. I went back to using my Pebble Time Steel from 2016 (!) and it's so much better in so many ways! I can even use it in the pool or the shower (touch screens are nice when it's dry and you don't accidentally touch it). The square Pebble screen is actually larger (albeit lower resolution, but square!), so it fits more stuff on it.
I ordered a Core Devices Core Time 2 (the new Pebble watches) and it'll elevate the already great Pebble experience in a way I could only wish modern smartwatches would do. It will even have touch and support "complications" on the watchface. 30-day battery life, higher-res 1.5 " (square!) screen, speaker and microphone, heart-rate, step and sleep tracking, chipset which supports both BLE and BT classic (for audio) and it's open source so the future of it is secured (even the old Pebbles continued to work all this time, the community is amazing).
It's weird that nobody else can seem to make a good smartwatch experience and make it actually useful outside gimmicks. Yes, I agree that e.g. Apple Watch has some really neat stuff, but its battery life is horrible, it's grossly overpriced and the APIs and eco-system is locked down like you would expect from Apple. And I wouldn't hold my breath for long-term support! Pebble's from over a decade ago (even as the company went down) have continued to work and had maintained apps, eco-system etc. (actually, some of the OG Pebble employees was among the people nurturing and maintaining it all along). It was so robust and stable.
The round screen smartwatches need to stop being a thing. It's the worst format for anything digital, text wrapping is a nightmare, getting words to efficiently show on the round screen is a nightmare, navigation, UI, everything is just not great.
The already small screen is in reality much smaller because of how poorly utilizable it is. You have to imagine putting a square inside of the round screen - that's essentially mostly the useful screen real-estate you have. A Pebble engineer had a presentation about this (don't remember where to find it), but it really makes it appearant how silly round screens are on smartwatches. Does it look good? Yes, but that's where the advantages stop, followed by a long list of disadvantages and problems. It's simply not worth it.
Tech needs to be smarter and more practical, not dumber and less practical. It's fully possible to make nice-looking square-screened smartwatches. I urge people to stop buying round smart watches (as if that's gonna make a real difference, haha).
I'm sorry, but I wanted to like the Pixel Watch 2, but the experience from the start was really disappointing. It's slow, the screen is tiny (although high-resolution), it's bloaty and the UI is not very intuitive or nice to use. It seems unfinished to me and the battery life is absolutely terrible. You need to constantly bring a silly dongle cable.
And all smartwatches should have USB-C and Qi2 by now. The time of dongles and adapters should be long gone. We have too many devices and too many useless connectors and single-port chargers. I even converted random devices and applicances to USB-C so everything just use the same cable, be it my laptop, travel fridge, desk fan, phone, headphones, buds, watches, speakers etc. USB-C is very compact and will fit into any smartwatch. The housing can even be used as the outer jack part of the connector to enable a paper thin smartwatch (yes, I have through how this could actually be just as manufacturable, maintain waterproof ratings, retain repairabiliy and still be structurally durable and electrically effective.
Anyway, that's my little rant. Modern smartwatches kinda sucks and Pebble watches (especially the new one that can be pre-ordered and delivered at the end of the year) run circles around them all. Don't get blinded by the specs that don't matter, it doesn't help to have fancy specs if it doesn't serve you well in your everyday life. When you've experienced a better eco system with better solutions, you simply cannot forget it and live without it. And one that is open and doesn't lose support of become buggy or unusable after a few years when the manufacturer decides that they want to abandon the products you own, sometimes artificially and deliberately.
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- annon
- 7MA
- 08 Jul 2025
Please reduce those watch Bezels on Google Pixel Watch 4!!
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- Lesnar
- U{V
- 08 Jul 2025
This watch have any calling option in India like apple and samsung watch
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- Dometalican
- rb2
- 07 Jul 2025
Anonymous, 07 Jul 2025So expensive. If it can last at least a week on a single ch... moreNo WearOS device will get there. Best so far is OnePlus with 4 days on their latest watch.
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- Ki
- U{4
- 07 Jul 2025
Expecting pixel 4 with LTE version in india
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- Anonymous
- Fvc
- 07 Jul 2025
So expensive. If it can last at least a week on a single charge with normal use, then I will buy it.
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- Anonymous
- nin
- 06 Jul 2025
Dometalican, 05 Jul 2025It looks good but I really hope they put in a bigger batter... moreThe Pixel Watch 3 already has a solid 420 mAh battery, which is on par with the Galaxy Watch 7. And with the Pixel Watch 4 expected to pack an even larger battery, things are definitely heading in the right direction for Google.
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- Dometalican
- rb2
- 05 Jul 2025
It looks good but I really hope they put in a bigger battery alongside having some minimal second screen that saves its battery. It needs to be in the same level as OnePlus and TicWatch on battery life.
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- WhoCaresTM
- 0mU
- 05 Jul 2025
WoW, it looks exactly the same like all the previous versions! Who would havr thought?!
Now imagine if it has the same crappy battery life too!
Taking chargers out of phone boxes to "save the environment" but then making e-waste like smartwatches.