I've been rocking my Pixel Watch One 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 this on paper these specs are not that compelling to really com 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 mm
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 2. But even the 41 mm 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 woo over 3 ft long.
It has the same design as the Pixel 2's 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
cuz I won't be able to use my Pixel 1's charger. Let's get this thing paired up
to a Pixel 9. Okay, Fitbit. A couple comments. One of the most interesting
things actually about this watch, and maybe this is uh speaking to how kind of
lame this upgrade is, but one of the nice things, they've actually taken
features out of the paywalled 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 payw wall of the Fitbit premium app
for my watch. On this one, it is not. And that is awesome. I 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 paywalled 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
paywalled 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. 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 25minut run. Uh, so it sets a timer and when that
timer expires, then her live location is shared. So like, hey, she's 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. It could be for your partner or your roommate, whoever. As
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are these coming in at? If it really is random, then these guys, these more
obscure kind of apps are definitely winning. All right, the watch is
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buy the 41 mm today, it'll still be 10% bigger in screen size than the Pixel 2
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. 2,000 nits peak on the new watch compared to the Pixel 2, 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 1, 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 the 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 m. That's 5 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 50 m
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
smartwatch. I there's no way I'm taking my watch off to go in the shower. Tell
you that. Probably has the same chip as on the Pixel Watch 2. No new SoC or
anything there. It's snappy enough. You're not mining. You're not
cryptomining 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, you 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 uh on speaker phone and
talking through it. It's very quiet. And um sounds bad. You're on my wrist. And
you know what? This thing doesn't look outlandishly large on my wrist like a
Apple Watch Ultra does. I could honestly rock that. I'm talking 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 speaker phone 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 going to hang up on you now. Yeah, it's like a little fuzzy. Uh, you
sound further away or a bit quieter. You sound like dog poop, man. You were
like a really compressed little man at
in the bottom of a can. Yeah. I don't know if this is a Pixel one is they're
all like this or if mine got smashed, but this is junk. The battery life claim
is the same as for last year's 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 about 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 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? 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 100 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
it's great that Google is, you know, 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 in unless you make calls from the watch a lot cuz damn, that sucked.
If you guys think I'm wrong and you would upgrade from a watch that's even 2
years old, let us know in the comments. and check out our other watch videos
like Lion's recent coverage of the OnePlus watch that I think he's still
wearing.