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I've been rocking my Pixel Watch 1 for two years since they came out.

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It's scratched to heck, honestly, because I just didn't want to have a case on it,

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which honestly kind of makes me less likely to upgrade to this new watch,

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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.

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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.

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The other problem for Google is that on paper, these specs are not that compelling

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to really get me to upgrade. There's a little diagram here of how to take the watch band off

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of the face. There's a little quick start guide. I really like this paper packaging.

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It's all recyclable. That's cool. It doesn't make up for the fact that you can't repair the watch.

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There are two sizes of bands in the box. So you get one of that side and then two of this side.

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And then finally, the watch itself. Boom. This is the chungus 45 millimeter version

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new to the pixel lineup is sizes. It is great that they have variety. I would still be using

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the small watch, but I think they're accessing a lot more people out of the population having this

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bigger offering because otherwise it just looks too dainty and tiny on a giant man's wrist.

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This is 40% more screen real estate than the smaller pixel two. But even the 41 millimeter

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has more screen real estate because the bezels are thinner. I'm hoping that I can compare the

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bezels of my one to this three once we get going here. And the final thing in the box is the charging

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dock, which is over three feet long. It has the same design as the pixel twos charger,

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which is different than the ones annoying that all three watches didn't have the same charger.

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I would love to have an extra charger, but even if I buy this watch, I'll only have one because

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I won't be able to use my pixel ones charger. Let's get this thing paired up to a pixel nine.

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Okay, Fitbit, a couple of comments. One of the most interesting things actually

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about this watch, or maybe this is speaking to how kind of lame this upgrade is, but one of the

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nice things they've actually taken features out of the paywall garden from Fitbit, most notably

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the readiness score on my watch. If you want to have your readiness score, which tells you like,

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Hey, you're ready to hit the weights today or do a big workout because you got a good sleep and

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you're well recovered versus maybe take it easy today. That readiness score is behind the paywall

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of the Fitbit premium app for my watch on this one. It is not. And that is awesome. I think they

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maybe just felt to compete with other watches. They had to do that. And they should because you

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should have access to all of the data that gets collected by the sensors on the watch,

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in my opinion, they still have paywall stuff, but it's things that you would expect like classes

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and AI insights and stuff like that, that personally, I'm not going to use some other

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new stuff that is not paywall is what's being described here. You can make custom workouts

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for yourself such as I want to run this long with this level of intensity. And then I'm going to

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slow down and walk slower at this level for this many minutes. You can tailor your own workout,

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which is pretty cool. Again, I'm never doing this. I hate running. I hate running long distance.

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That's for sure. I'm going to sprint if anything. And then I just go by how much sweat I have. And

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I don't need a watch to tell me I'm out of breath. That's what I'm talking about. Enhanced recovery

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by tracking sleep and stress. A couple of safety features being touted here. The one that I think

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is the most notable is safety check where you go, okay, my daughter's going out for a 25 minute run.

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So it sets a timer and when that timer expires, then her live location is shared. So like, hey,

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you're supposed to be back now. By now, where is she? I can check that out. That's, that's pretty

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cool. By the way, that's not just for parents. You can choose which of your contacts you want to

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share that live location with for your partner or your roommate, whoever. As far as watch specific

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apps, you've got the camera and Spotify already installed. And then for recommendations, number

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one, SoundCloud, baby. SoundCloud, check out my band. Who's using SoundCloud? What particular order

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are these coming in? If it really is random, then these guys, these more obscure kind of apps are

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definitely winning. If you buy the 41 millimeter today, it'll still be 10% bigger in screen size

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than the pixel two because of slimmer bezels, but they love to hide these bezels with a black screen,

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don't they? Another big thing is screen brightness. Double the brightness, 2000 nits peak on the new

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watch compared to the pixel two, which is going to be great when you're outside on a sunny day,

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if you live in a place that actually ever gets sun. Yeah, I can see that this is a pixel one, but

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that is a lot brighter. Even this watch will light up a dark room. So combined with it being bigger,

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that is going to be a lot brighter. That's how thick the bezels are. They really don't look

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that much thinner than pixel ones even. So I guess that's 10% because it's a circle and it's on the

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outer rim, but it doesn't look materially bigger. For Ingress Protection, this is IP68 rated up to

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50 meters. That's five atmospheres deep. That is really deep, you guys. That is beyond the basic

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diving certification. You need advanced diving certifications to go that deep. 50 meters is deep.

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So that is really impressive. They say you can swim in the ocean with this thing, salt water,

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whatever, wear it in the shower. You're good to go. You don't have to think about it. And that is

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what I expect from basically any smart watch. There's no way I'm taking my watch off to go in

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the shower. I'll tell you that. Puppy has the same chip as in the pixel watch too. No new SOC or

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anything there. It's snappy enough. You're not mining. You're not crypto mining on this thing.

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But there are some cool new features, including maybe an underrated one called morning briefing.

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It basically just, it knows the first time you look at your watch in the morning,

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and it just gives you some key stats like this is how well you slept, this is what the weather's

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like today, and this is what's on your calendar. Pretty cool. You can't really tailor what comes

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in that morning briefing, but it does try to act with some intelligence and give you, you know,

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novel information. In terms of controls, you can control your phone's camera from the watch,

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which is useful, but not new. You can control your Google TV. It's basically your remote. You can

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control the volume next episode, all that stuff from here, which is very cool, especially if you

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lose your remote a lot, which I do. My couch just has so many cracks between the cushions.

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It could be anywhere. And you can use this as like a viewfinder for your Nest camera. So somebody

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rings your doorbell. You're washing the dishes. Your hands are all soapy. Just look at your watch,

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and you can, you can not only see them, you can even talk to them. Although I will say that I hate

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using this thing on speakerphone and talking through it. It's very quiet and sounds bad.

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You're on my wrist. And you know what? This thing doesn't look outlandishly large on my wrist,

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like an Apple Watch Ultra does. I could honestly rock that. I'm talking to you with my hands on

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steering wheel kind of position. So the watch face is not oriented toward my mouth anymore.

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How does that sound? It sounds pretty good. Sounds like you're just on speakerphone,

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on a regular phone. I'm speaking at a volume that is normal for me. Maybe abnormal for some.

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I'm not really quite sure. You never can be sure, can you? All right. I think it's loud enough. I'm

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gonna hang up on you now. You sound like dog poop, man. You are like a really compressed little

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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

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if mine got smashed, but this is junk. The battery life claim is the same as for lashes,

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which is 24 hours with the always on display on. It does kind of suck to have to charge your watch

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every day. That said, charging is 20% faster this time around. And the charging speed is such that

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it's kind of solved. You basically never really have to charge this for longer than a half hour

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if you get the smaller size. The larger watch has a larger battery. And you know, you might want to

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charge it for more 45 to 50 minutes to get 80% of the battery. But if you don't run it down to zero

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because you're charging it every day, you only really have to plug these things in for about a

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half hour, 45 minutes. That's basically your morning routine. Go have a shower, take it off

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when you go have a shower. You know what? Take it off, brush your teeth, you come back, it's already

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charged. Really not a nuisance. I personally am a morning charger person because I like to wear it

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at night and get that sleep tracking info. Should you buy one or should you upgrade the pricing 350

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bucks for the smaller one, an additional 50 bucks for the big one. If you want LTE to have a SIM card

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in this puppy, then it's an additional $100 on either model. Against competitors in the market,

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the Apple Watch starts at 50 bucks more than where the Pixel Watch 3 starts. And the Samsung Galaxy

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series, they start at 50 bucks less. So it's kind of in the middle. One thing to note though is this

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is launching at the same price that the Pixel 2 launched at last year. The Pixel Watch 2 is being

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discounted by a hundred bucks. So maybe you should just go get one of those for 250. Or if you're a

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Pixel 1 user like me, you can just keep on using it because honestly, I don't think the differences

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are that big. Maybe you like the new colors that you can see here. There's different watch face

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colors and band colors. You do not get to choose which band goes with which face. But of course,

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you can buy aftermarket or different colors of bands separately. My overall feelings about this

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product is that it's great that Google is pushing the ball forward every year. I don't think it's

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compelling enough to upgrade from even the first iteration. I'm glad that we're making these

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incremental improvements, but they are so incremental that there's really no point in it.

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Unless you make calls from the watch a lot because damn, that sucked. If you guys think I'm wrong

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and you would upgrade from a watch that's even two years old, let us know in the comments and

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check out our other watch videos like Linus's recent coverage of the OnePlus watch that I think he's

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still wearing.