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My heart is broken. And by that I mean I

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have a heart disease that's yet to be diagnosed, but it might be AIB. Now, now

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that we got that out of the way, let's talk about fitness trackers/smartwatches.

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This is the Google Pixel Watch 4, and it's the latest in the Pixel Watch

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series, and I'm excited about it for a few reasons. One, I was a daily user of

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the original Pixel Watch for about half a year. And I really liked the form

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factor. I liked the fit, the shape, the style, the interface, but the battery

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life was absolutely brutal. I'm talking like it didn't even really last the day

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without using the battery saving mode. And that's kind of remained true since

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the dawn of Pixel watches. But it seems like this time Google's promising that

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we're going to have way better battery life and we're still going to have a

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nice sleek form factor. And right away, Google has classed up their packaging.

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Okay, I currently, for reference, am using a OnePlus Watch 2R, which I got

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for free when I purchased my OnePlus 13R. And I I don't want to say I love

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this thing, but I like a lot about it. One, it's a little big. It's not the

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most comfortable, but holy crap, the battery life literally can last for 2

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weeks if I want it to, and it does a great job of all of the fitness tracking

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features that I want from it. How I use my smart watches, I'm not the most like

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interactive. I'm not trying to, you know, send texts or take calls from it.

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I mainly care about it for the fitness aspects. Here we have documentation as

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well as a large strap. I will use a small strap because I have slender

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wrists. The watch comes in two sizes, a 45mm

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diameter and a 41 mm diameter. This is the 45mm diameter. I think both of those

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sizes will look fine on most wrists. Like th Look at the size of this thing.

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This thing's honking. Despite the fact that it's only 2.6 6 mm greater in

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diameter. Let's take a look at the actual watch itself. On the bottom, it

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has a sensor cluster that looks very similar to the one that was on the previous Google Pixel watches. And it

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still maintains the proprietary, it's good, but proprietary watch strap

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mechanism. It's really easy to take on and off a watch strap, but because it is

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proprietary, you have so few choices. Google does a decent job of offering

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varieties, but when you have a watch that uses like a typical lugbased

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system, you can really get any kind of watch strap that you like. We have the

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action button and the crown that can also be rotated and as a button. And

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then on the other side, we have these two kind of electrodes. Oh, right. This

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is the new charging standard, which um

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is neither here nor there except for the fact that within the four versions of

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Pixel watches, they've had three different chargers. and it's getting

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kind of silly. So, this is the charger. I guess it just magnets in there like

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that. And the bottom of the charger even has some soft touch rubber to keep it

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more in place. And it seems like it holds on pretty well. Like, at least

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when you knock over the watch, the charger is likely to come with it. The

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good news is that this is a fast charger. And Google claims that you can

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get 15 hours of battery life on the device within 15 minutes of charging.

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So, if you did forget to plug it in in the evening, you can just hop it on the

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charger for a little bit. You're going to be totally fine. And spoiler alert, I

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did use this ahead of time. I found that that claim was pretty accurate. And the

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fact that you can do 15 hours and 15 minutes implies that the full battery life on this thing is pretty good. They

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claim 30 hours of battery life on the 41 mm model and 40 hours of battery life on

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the big boy. And that's with an always on display, which is great because I'm

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in the school of thought that if it doesn't have an always on display, you

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don't call it a watch. Okay, this thing has an always on display. It's now a

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watch. When it doesn't have an always on display, it's a goddamn joke. Before we

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turn it on, let's take one last look at all of the sensors. It has all the usual suspects when it comes to health

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sensors. You got your SPO2, heart rate, it can do ECGs, and can detect aphib.

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We'll talk about that in a second. As well as it has accelerometers,

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gyroscopes, ambient light sensors, electrical sensors for skin conductance.

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It's got kind of everything that you'd expect in a flagship model watch. and

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maybe only a couple that are missing from say like the most premium Apple

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description. I've already done the setup on this device. I will say that the

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setup experience is pretty good except for there was a couple pretty big

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caveats. One, if your Fitbit account is

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on a different Google account than the

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one that you want to pair with your phone, things get pretty wonky. I set

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this up on my work email, but my Fitbit account is on a personal email. And I

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couldn't easily reconcile those until I factory reset the watch. Also deleted

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the entire watch app from my phone and deleted the Fitbit app. And after I did

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all of those things, I still realized I had to also remove the Bluetooth pairing

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of the device. So, I spent like 2 hours turning this thing off and on and

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factory resetting it before I could actually get it hooked up to the right Gmail account. So, just make sure you

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know what your Fitbit account is because it's different from your Google account,

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but now they're very much merged, which is even more confusing because previous Pixel watches use the Google Fit app a

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lot, but now Fitbit has kind of merged in. It's kind of messy. So, just that's

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something to look out for on the setup. When I didn't have to deal with the Gmail stuff, very smooth, very simple

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setup. Everything just kind of works like that. I think that the wristband is

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quite a nice texture. It's like a soft touch silicone. uh very sporty and it

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has this kind of a little metal latch

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mechanism as opposed to something that's a little bit more finicky. However, I

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have spent so much time in my life with a typical clasp that I don't need like

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help. And I find that I'm more concerned about how this is going to affect taking

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it on and off because it's just kind of hooking into this lip. I'm worried that

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this plastic here is gonna like stretch or degrade and I might need to replace

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the the watch band before I actually would. I also wish that the sizes were

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slightly closer together. I find that it's often a little too tight or a

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little too loose, especially when I am concerned about getting a good contact

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for tracking my heart rate while also being comfortable. The first one that

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you can notice and one thing that Google pointed out a lot was the uh Actua

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display or whatever the Hawkua display which is pretty neat. All of the Pixel

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watches have had this really nice domed glass cover that might make, you know,

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protecting the thing a little bit harder and a little bit clumsier, but always looked really slick. But now the screen

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underneath is actually domed. And that's supposed to make it so that at various different angles you have a little bit

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more visibility. I'm going to try and put I'm going to put my other watch on. I don't know, man. I don't know if it

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makes that big of a difference. It's tough to see in the monitor. It doesn't

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even really spill over the sides that much, which I thought it was like they were kind of going to advertise that

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like, oh, you'll have stats like right along here, you know, like you could see

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the time and it would be like an always on display that was like super battery mode, but it only had pixels right here

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lit up. So, you could just kind of like glance down and see like it's 1212 or

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something. That would be really cool. They um didn't do that. It's a nice

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crisp display that goes up to 3,000 nits of brightness, so you can read it in

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pretty much any conditions. the bezels.

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They do a lot in W OS to hide the bezels. If you play like kind of a

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stupid game that I bought literally to demonstrate the bezels on this thing,

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you can see that it's not that good. Like a good chunk of bezel. I

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don't really think that matters that much. It's a big enough display for me. I can fit all of the complications that

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I want on here easily. It's quite a responsive interface with this new

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Snapdragon chip. I've been really, really impressed by it. Usually in Wos there's a lot of visible chugging. It

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happens occasionally still, but for the most part, a very smooth experience. On

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the whole, whereas is pretty similar, but now they have a lot more Gemini in

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it. And by default, the Gemini button is

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on the >> watch face. >> They also have like a raise to speak

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feature where if you keep it by your side and then you lift it up like this,

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it should trigger Gemini and you should be able to tell by a little sensor at the bottom. But it's not doing that. Oh

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my god. It's another account thing because the watch has to match my Fitbit

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account. It's set up on one personal email. My Gemini account is not set up

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on that personal email. So, I have to switch the Gemini on my phone to match

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the one on here, but the Gemini on my phone is the one that's connected to all

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of my like home devices and my home network. So, I can't use the Gem I It's

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stupid. Why does my Fitbit account determine what the freaking Google

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account is? So, now it's set up. It should work like this.

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So it should be able to say like hey or hey

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automatically recognizes it. It also should be I have it down here

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>> and then I go like this

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like and I go like and it's kind of finicky

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as to when it usually works. Like right now it's not working at all. But I would

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also have it so that it would work. I'd do raise to speak and it would take it'

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be like I'm ready for input. But then you still have to say the keyword. You

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still have to say hey assistant to get it to listen to you. So what's the point

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of having raise towake if they want you to have the voice match activated before

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raise towake? If I still have to say the action word then it's the same as me

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having it here and just saying the action word. And of course it has to be

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that way cuz you could you imagine if like every time you did this and you were like having a conversation you just

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wanted to check it and then tried to like take a whole Gemini conversation of everything that you're saying. So like

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what's it's like a feature that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense.

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Am I st am I stupid or like has anyone else realized that like

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I don't know if this is like just a Adam you dumb dumb you don't understand how

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it work. Anyways let's talk about health sensing. I think that whereas in a

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really good state and now that it seems that Google is like finally figuring out

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that they actually want to use Fitbit.

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The fitness tracking is also really good. I took it on a couple of runs

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while wearing this as well and kind of compared the results and they seemed

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relatively accurate. And it also does a really good job of detecting when you've

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done physical activity that you forgot to track. Like I went on a 30-minute

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walk the other day, forgot to track it. It said, "Hey, we saw that you did

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that." And that's something that this watch completely missed entirely.

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Supposedly, it has quite improved sleep tracking. I have found that it didn't

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seem to track my sleep substantially differently from this, but a lot of

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those sleep tracking features do require several nights of wearing for them to

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really kick in and understand. Like there's a readiness score that's like

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how rested and ready are you to start your day? And it's it's supposed to kind

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of advise you as to whether maybe you should try and take it easy this day or

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you know maybe you feel more rested and uh want to push yourself on your next

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workout or something. Uh the first night it gave me a readiness score. It said it

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was a seven and that's out of 100

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which to me sounds like and I had a pretty good day that day. I I don't

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think it was that bad. So, let's talk about the AIB. I have this device. It's

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called a cardia. It's basically a way to get a single lead ECG pretty quickly and

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very accurately. Um, I had a bout of AIB

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while wearing this watch. the AIB detection was set up and activated and

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set to on and this thing did not detect

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it. Um whereas when I pulled out my cardia and logged it, it was like, yeah,

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you have Aphib. There's some arguments to be made. A lot of the times when

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these watches are going like, oh, we're detecting Aphib, it expects a certain

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duration. Perhaps my bout of Aphib didn't happen for long enough for this

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thing to fire off. Aphib is only really dangerous over a long period of time. Uh

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most bouts are not going to be immediately dangerous. And cardia being

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something that I need to pull out and measure has its own interest in being like letting me being hyper sensitive

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and having false positives, right? It would be better for the company to be

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like, "Oh, you have a" and then you go talk to your doctor rather than say you don't have aphib and then you die. Um so

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it's either here or there. I am pretty worried cuz I was like

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it was something that was a quite a noticeable bout in my opinion compared to a lot of the more subtle times that

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I've noticed it. That isn't to say that it doesn't work at all. That is to say

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that if you know that you have something like AIB, you should really consider

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getting a dedicated device for tracking and not relying exclusively on a watch.

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But don't take my advice. Talk to your doctor about either of these things. Maybe these are actually good and I'm a

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dumb dumb. But outside of that, the heart rate tracking is really good. I

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took this out on a couple of runs and it did a great job of accurately measuring my heart rate and it can do a lot of

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sports now. Fitbit has support for so many sports and you can even swim in

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this because it has IP68 water resistance and they claim it can go up

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to 50 m deep. Somehow they also maintain

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that rating while it being pretty repairable. Obviously, once you crack

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this thing open, it will not have an IP68 rating anymore. But it's nice to

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see that we finally have a sort of repairable Google watch because in the

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past they were just like, "Oh, it's broken. Got to buy a new one. Better

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throw that one out." Future Adam here. Maybe I was being a little too cynical

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because right after we recorded this, turns out that uh iFixit gives the

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repairability score of this a provisional 9 out of 10, which is

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awesome to see. Good job, Google. It's It's tough to like get excited about the

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Pixel Watch 4 because it is very

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incremental, but to me it feels like they've really

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finally refined the product to the point that it in my eyes is basically a

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Android equivalent to an Apple Watch in terms of its seamless integration with

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the Android ecosystem, its polish, its

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design and identity. I think it's super comfortable. It's even tackling some of

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those like survival type features that Apple has really been tackling on the

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most recent Apple watches as dual frequency GPS which makes this thing

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super accurate for tracking my runs. This also has emergency satellite

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>> texting. >> It has fall detection. It has loss of

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pulse detection. So, uh I don't even I

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don't know how they get I don't even know how that works cuz you think they

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would be like you would not want that to be too sensitive. Could you imagine like

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sending your loved one a loss of pulse notification? It's a feature that you

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can turn on. It also has like car crash detection, all that sort of stuff. And

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they brought a bunch of those features back to earlier versions of the Pixel Watch. If you want to learn more about

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what features are going onto the old models, Google has it all listed on

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their website. So, where does that leave us with the Pixel Watch 4? I'm going to

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say it. I was pretty satisfied with the 2R. I now don't like it anymore. I like

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Pixel Watch 4. I really wish that Google would steal the dual OS thing that they

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do on the OnePlus watches that lets you have the super super long low energy

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modes with a high performance main OS for most days. The build quality seems

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great. You might be a little sketched out by the Corning Gorilla Glass 5

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instead of having a sapphire crystal thing, but you have to trade off the

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shatterproofness with the hardness. I think it's better that this gets some

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scratches than it breaks entirely. It's just it's a really slick package and I

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think Google's really like really refined the watch. And if you've been

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eyeing a Pixel Watch for a long time, this is the one where I think you should

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take the plunge. Except the price has

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gone up. The 41 mm watch is $350. The 45

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is $400. If you want LTE, add $100 to

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each of those prices. The OnePlus Watch 2R will get you 90% of the way there for

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a substantially lower price. However, I

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think this thing's more comfortable. It's more stylish. However, it does very

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much look like the Pixel Watch. It doesn't really blend in. If you're

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somebody who wants to have a more traditional looking watch, this isn't

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really for you. It's definitely going for a more sporty type of look that I am

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kind of fond of and I'm fond of you for watching this video. If you like this

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one, why not check out the Pixel Watch 3 because then you can see the differences

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between the two and maybe you can pick up a Pixel Watch 3 on discount as they

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go out of