I've been rocking my Pixel Watch 1 for two years since they came out.
It's scratched to heck, honestly, because I just didn't want to have a case on it,
which honestly kind of makes me less likely to upgrade to this new watch,
because I don't think anyone's going to buy my old scratched up one. And I would have to do something like that because these watches are not repairable at all.
So if I can't get someone else to use this or buy it, it's going in the landfill and I just can't sleep at night with that.
The other problem for Google is that on paper, these specs are not that compelling
to really get me to upgrade. There's a little diagram here of how to take the watch band off
of the face. There's a little quick start guide. I really like this paper packaging.
It's all recyclable. That's cool. It doesn't make up for the fact that you can't repair the watch.
There are two sizes of bands in the box. So you get one of that side and then two of this side.
And then finally, the watch itself. Boom. This is the chungus 45 millimeter version
new to the pixel lineup is sizes. It is great that they have variety. I would still be using
the small watch, but I think they're accessing a lot more people out of the population having this
bigger offering because otherwise it just looks too dainty and tiny on a giant man's wrist.
This is 40% more screen real estate than the smaller pixel two. But even the 41 millimeter
has more screen real estate because the bezels are thinner. I'm hoping that I can compare the
bezels of my one to this three once we get going here. And the final thing in the box is the charging
dock, which is over three feet long. It has the same design as the pixel twos charger,
which is different than the ones annoying that all three watches didn't have the same charger.
I would love to have an extra charger, but even if I buy this watch, I'll only have one because
I won't be able to use my pixel ones charger. Let's get this thing paired up to a pixel nine.
Okay, Fitbit, a couple of comments. One of the most interesting things actually
about this watch, or maybe this is speaking to how kind of lame this upgrade is, but one of the
nice things they've actually taken features out of the paywall garden from Fitbit, most notably
the readiness score on my watch. If you want to have your readiness score, which tells you like,
Hey, you're ready to hit the weights today or do a big workout because you got a good sleep and
you're well recovered versus maybe take it easy today. That readiness score is behind the paywall
of the Fitbit premium app for my watch on this one. It is not. And that is awesome. I think they
maybe just felt to compete with other watches. They had to do that. And they should because you
should have access to all of the data that gets collected by the sensors on the watch,
in my opinion, they still have paywall stuff, but it's things that you would expect like classes
and AI insights and stuff like that, that personally, I'm not going to use some other
new stuff that is not paywall is what's being described here. You can make custom workouts
for yourself such as I want to run this long with this level of intensity. And then I'm going to
slow down and walk slower at this level for this many minutes. You can tailor your own workout,
which is pretty cool. Again, I'm never doing this. I hate running. I hate running long distance.
That's for sure. I'm going to sprint if anything. And then I just go by how much sweat I have. And
I don't need a watch to tell me I'm out of breath. That's what I'm talking about. Enhanced recovery
by tracking sleep and stress. A couple of safety features being touted here. The one that I think
is the most notable is safety check where you go, okay, my daughter's going out for a 25 minute run.
So it sets a timer and when that timer expires, then her live location is shared. So like, hey,
you're supposed to be back now. By now, where is she? I can check that out. That's, that's pretty
cool. By the way, that's not just for parents. You can choose which of your contacts you want to
share that live location with for your partner or your roommate, whoever. As far as watch specific
apps, you've got the camera and Spotify already installed. And then for recommendations, number
one, SoundCloud, baby. SoundCloud, check out my band. Who's using SoundCloud? What particular order
are these coming in? If it really is random, then these guys, these more obscure kind of apps are
definitely winning. If you buy the 41 millimeter today, it'll still be 10% bigger in screen size
than the pixel two because of slimmer bezels, but they love to hide these bezels with a black screen,
don't they? Another big thing is screen brightness. Double the brightness, 2000 nits peak on the new
watch compared to the pixel two, which is going to be great when you're outside on a sunny day,
if you live in a place that actually ever gets sun. Yeah, I can see that this is a pixel one, but
that is a lot brighter. Even this watch will light up a dark room. So combined with it being bigger,
that is going to be a lot brighter. That's how thick the bezels are. They really don't look
that much thinner than pixel ones even. So I guess that's 10% because it's a circle and it's on the
outer rim, but it doesn't look materially bigger. For Ingress Protection, this is IP68 rated up to
50 meters. That's five atmospheres deep. That is really deep, you guys. That is beyond the basic
diving certification. You need advanced diving certifications to go that deep. 50 meters is deep.
So that is really impressive. They say you can swim in the ocean with this thing, salt water,
whatever, wear it in the shower. You're good to go. You don't have to think about it. And that is
what I expect from basically any smart watch. There's no way I'm taking my watch off to go in
the shower. I'll tell you that. Puppy has the same chip as in the pixel watch too. No new SOC or
anything there. It's snappy enough. You're not mining. You're not crypto mining on this thing.
But there are some cool new features, including maybe an underrated one called morning briefing.
It basically just, it knows the first time you look at your watch in the morning,
and it just gives you some key stats like this is how well you slept, this is what the weather's
like today, and this is what's on your calendar. Pretty cool. You can't really tailor what comes
in that morning briefing, but it does try to act with some intelligence and give you, you know,
novel information. In terms of controls, you can control your phone's camera from the watch,
which is useful, but not new. You can control your Google TV. It's basically your remote. You can
control the volume next episode, all that stuff from here, which is very cool, especially if you
lose your remote a lot, which I do. My couch just has so many cracks between the cushions.
It could be anywhere. And you can use this as like a viewfinder for your Nest camera. So somebody
rings your doorbell. You're washing the dishes. Your hands are all soapy. Just look at your watch,
and you can, you can not only see them, you can even talk to them. Although I will say that I hate
using this thing on speakerphone and talking through it. It's very quiet and sounds bad.
You're on my wrist. And you know what? This thing doesn't look outlandishly large on my wrist,
like an Apple Watch Ultra does. I could honestly rock that. I'm talking to you with my hands on
steering wheel kind of position. So the watch face is not oriented toward my mouth anymore.
How does that sound? It sounds pretty good. Sounds like you're just on speakerphone,
on a regular phone. I'm speaking at a volume that is normal for me. Maybe abnormal for some.
I'm not really quite sure. You never can be sure, can you? All right. I think it's loud enough. I'm
gonna hang up on you now. You sound like dog poop, man. You are like a really compressed little
man in the bottom of a can. Yeah, I don't know if this is a Pixel 1. Is they're all like this or
if mine got smashed, but this is junk. The battery life claim is the same as for lashes,
which is 24 hours with the always on display on. It does kind of suck to have to charge your watch
every day. That said, charging is 20% faster this time around. And the charging speed is such that
it's kind of solved. You basically never really have to charge this for longer than a half hour
if you get the smaller size. The larger watch has a larger battery. And you know, you might want to
charge it for more 45 to 50 minutes to get 80% of the battery. But if you don't run it down to zero
because you're charging it every day, you only really have to plug these things in for about a
half hour, 45 minutes. That's basically your morning routine. Go have a shower, take it off
when you go have a shower. You know what? Take it off, brush your teeth, you come back, it's already
charged. Really not a nuisance. I personally am a morning charger person because I like to wear it
at night and get that sleep tracking info. Should you buy one or should you upgrade the pricing 350
bucks for the smaller one, an additional 50 bucks for the big one. If you want LTE to have a SIM card
in this puppy, then it's an additional $100 on either model. Against competitors in the market,
the Apple Watch starts at 50 bucks more than where the Pixel Watch 3 starts. And the Samsung Galaxy
series, they start at 50 bucks less. So it's kind of in the middle. One thing to note though is this
is launching at the same price that the Pixel 2 launched at last year. The Pixel Watch 2 is being
discounted by a hundred bucks. So maybe you should just go get one of those for 250. Or if you're a
Pixel 1 user like me, you can just keep on using it because honestly, I don't think the differences
are that big. Maybe you like the new colors that you can see here. There's different watch face
colors and band colors. You do not get to choose which band goes with which face. But of course,
you can buy aftermarket or different colors of bands separately. My overall feelings about this
product is that it's great that Google is pushing the ball forward every year. I don't think it's
compelling enough to upgrade from even the first iteration. I'm glad that we're making these
incremental improvements, but they are so incremental that there's really no point in it.
Unless you make calls from the watch a lot because damn, that sucked. If you guys think I'm wrong
and you would upgrade from a watch that's even two years old, let us know in the comments and
check out our other watch videos like Linus's recent coverage of the OnePlus watch that I think he's
still wearing.