Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

14 points

I don’t mind that excuse about my Mi Band 6, because it was like £25.

I would mind that excuse when we’re talking about a £339 smartwatch. So I won’t buy one.

I won’t buy a Fitbit either, because the wife had one and every week was a complex dance of restarting the phone and watch several times until they agreed to connect to each other.

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4 points

And they pretty much have made most of the utility locked behind an $80 subscription

No thanks

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4 points

Why would a smartwatch need a subscription?? what does it even do?

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2 points

Without the subscription, you have to pay 99 cents to check the time.

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17 points

Shame on Google!

Shame on Google!

Also, look what I found…

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14 points

Interestingly, even Pine64’s smart watch requires you to silly cone glue the two case halves together if you want it to be waterproof. It does give you that option, though, which is cool.

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0 points

who needs an e-watch really

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2 points

I love my Samsung watch because I can do Strava tracking and listen to Spotify to my Bluetooth Buds while running without taking my phone. Absolute game changer honestly

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39 points

i bought a P-Watch due to the circular aesthetic, have been wearing mine since release. it’s “OK” but last week i fell on my bicycle and scratched up the watch face pretty badly, so QUITE annoying that there is no repair program.

doesn’t matter though, switching to a classic Cassio watch soon anyways. “Smart Watches” aren’t that helpful for me, ultimately i don’t understand the appeal. it’s just PHONE ON WRIST, seems like another way to “PLUG INTO THE MATRIX”

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6 points

I wear my smart watch exclusively at work because when I’m on or around heavy machinery, I need to know if that little alert was something important or not. Otherwise I’d be checking my phone every five minutes. But I don’t have to stop or slow down to check my wrist.

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1 point

Never understood the appeal of Dick Tracey’s phone watch, still don’t understand them now that the are real.

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8 points

I don’t wear mine anymore really, but the use case for it for me was to see notifications quickly and easily without taking my attention away from whoever I am with. You can quickly just glance at your watch to see if the text/phone call/email is important or not and then just twist your wrist to dismiss.

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0 points

I used to think I had to decide if I wanted to reply to a notification immediately.

Besides my smart doorbell notification and actual phone calls everything else can wait an hour until I finish what I’m doing. And for those two exceptions they have special vibration patterns in my pocket.

Don’t be that guy who has to reply to notifications immediately

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3 points

Not all notifications need replying to, and it’s sometimes nice to have them be glanceable. I don’t use a smartwatch per say, the battery life on them suck, but my Garmin watch still has some of the same general functionality along with the fitness stuff I mostly have it for. Plus underrated feature for me is using it to ring my phone when I can’t find it ha

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1 point

I agree on principal, but unfortunately in today’s world there’s things like work that demand an immediate response. Is it healthy? Nope. Do they care? Nope.

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2 points

The point is I don’t feel the need to reply to almost any notification immediately. There are emergencies that can’t wait sometimes though.

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10 points

I get Google bad but what watch face is that in the thumbnail of the link?

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9 points

Concentric!

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