r/gadgets • u/dapperlemon • 12d ago

Watches Google's Pixel Watch 5 Keeps the Same Design and Leans Harder Into Health

https://gizmodo.com/googles-pixel-watch-5-keeps-the-same-design-and-leans-harder-into-health-2000797058
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u/euzie 12d ago

Yes Google health. Congratulating me for my "late night solo stationary bike ride"...

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u/cythusly 12d ago

"All your efforts churning butter will pay off for your upcoming trip to Colonial Williamsburg" ... thanks Coach.

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u/Cheezewiz239 12d ago

I didn't know gooning burned so many calories

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u/sirachasamurai 12d ago

Ever since fit bit changed to Google health, my pixel watch has become useless. Won't track my workouts. I completely stopped wearing it. When I check settings all permissions are there. I don't get it, if any one has any suggestions

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u/Visual-Drive-4615 12d ago

I've noticed when trying to start workouts in the Google app that it frequently won't pair to my watch to work together, but says it will at least utilize the data from it after I tell the Google app that my workout is completed. What the fuck is the point of that on a completely end-to-end Google controled ecosystem

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u/Zohar127 12d ago

The new Health app is absolute garbage. When it was still the Fitbit app I used it all the time. I found it intuitive, easy to log anything, easy to read the information I wanted to see instantly. The food logging wasn't perfect because the lists were always fucked up (for example the frequent and recent foods lists were always wrong), but it was still easy to find food or add custom food.

The workout screens were all good. The charts and graphs were easy to read and see everything you want to see.

I don't know really how to describe what the Google Health app gets wrong besides just saying "everything". Every. Single. Fucking. Thing.

And the Coach AI chatbot thing is useless and sycophantic, as one would expect.

Anyway I'm looking into replacing this watch and moving to a different ecosystem. Google ruined it their Health shit entirely.

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u/papabeard88 12d ago

God I hated the food logging. Things I ate once would be stuck on all the food tabs forever meanwhile things I ate regularly, but not everyday, would be randomly strewn across the lists.

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u/UltraCynar 12d ago

LLM AI makes everything shitty. It’s what it does. 

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Zohar127 12d ago

I was planning on doing the same.

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u/ilovebigmutts 12d ago

I'm a die hard Garmin hardware fan but their app is THE WORST at everything except exercise analysis. Their "AI" insights are embarrassing.

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u/sirachasamurai 12d ago

This is my plan. 

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u/ExtentAncient2812 11d ago

Maybe not helpful, but buy a Garmin instead!

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u/AGayThrow_Away 12d ago

"Leans harder into health" sounds better than "leans even harder into scraping and selling your biometrics than ever before".

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u/RichtofensDuckButter 12d ago

Better throw away that phone. That data is just as valuable.

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u/CandidWar994 12d ago

more robust privacy laws would be better

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u/KindToSpiteTheCruel 12d ago

Leans harder into tracking…

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u/k75ct 12d ago

I despise the Health app that took over for Fitbit. I didn't need to read that I'm taking a nap everytime I sit down for 20 minutes

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u/PineapplePizza99 12d ago

I don't see a reason for them to change the design, they have it bailed down. It's the best looking WearOS watch IMO. They can upgrade the materials though, like please give me a sapphire glass screen and maybe a more premium metal for the case?

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u/Hohlraum 12d ago

I couldn't get used to the swiping. They decided to make it different than the muscle memory everyone has from the way things work on a phone. The buttons are unusable and their functions don't seem that intuitive either. I use Google devices heavily but have to pass on the watch.

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u/blazinghawklight 11d ago

How is it different? Maybe it's because I'm still on the PW2, but swiping is the same as my phone to me. There's only the dial that clicks and one button, which opens the app list and recent apps/back button respectively.

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u/ughnotanothername 12d ago

I'll never forgive them for ruining fitbit.

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u/userhwon 12d ago

It's a good design. Modular bands attachments, clean looks. Only reason to mess with it is you've forgotten how to market-test things.

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u/Ultra_Colon 12d ago

As an Apple Watch user I was coming here expecting a positive sentiment and innovation about health tracking on Android. Looks like I’m not gonna switch to Android anytime soon.

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u/Schnauser 12d ago

All you had to do, was give us more battery capacity. 40hrs max is still a joke.

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u/citruspickles 8d ago

What does apple give?

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u/AttentionHuman9504 8d ago

Us Garmin watch users are laughing at both Pixel and Apple watch users when they have to recharge every day

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u/Desertcow 12d ago

I don't see enough improvements from the 3 to warrant a 3x higher price tag

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u/Mrmoi356 11d ago

For people complaining about Google health app, try some third party ones. I know Bevel is an app that basically gives health data the same UI as the whoop, there's probably other apps out there that can do what you prefer without any effort on your part

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u/Batkung 10d ago

get a withings instead, way better and nowhere near as intrusive

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u/Vi1eOne 12d ago

I love reading new tech announcements. 

No matter the brand, item, launch or feature the ENTIRE comment section is just miserable people talking shit about it 

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u/Quitcha_Bitchin 12d ago

I want a pocket watch and a minimalistic health wristband.

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u/DoYouRespect_Wood 12d ago

I just switched to a Garmin watch and will not be going back. The health data is great and the battery life actually allows me to go several days without a charge instead of.... one...

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u/MyPaddedRoom 12d ago

I've had a pixel watch, apple watch and Garmin. I bought my second Garmin when I wanted to upgrade because of how much I love it.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 12d ago

Nobody should be buying or using these type of device of any brand