What do you want from a Pixel Watch 3?
For it have a 2-week battery life, no calling home, an e-ink non-screen, square, physical buttons, and to maybe be called a Pebble Time 3.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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You've described my perfect smart watch. I hate the rush for features and better brighter touch screens when all I want is a non intrusive notification device that won't accidentally call my boss fat when my wrist grazes any other part of my skin.
The Pebble was too good and spoiled my opinion of every smart watch I've used since.
I hope there is a valid replacement option for it, when my Pebble Time Steel finally dies in 2050.
This still hurts.
Pebble... 😭
I was thinking 100m water resistance, automatic movement with 24 hour reserve, and no date function.
For me it would have to be vastly better battery life. I get 3+ days on my TicWatch and consider that to be a bare minimum, it's occasionally inconvenient still.
I really miss the battery life of my Pebble. (Only stopped using it because the notifications and performance were unreliable)
Why hasn't anyone brought back an e-ink watch? Best watch ever.
I wear a Garmin Fenix 6X Pro Solar, which is a large watch with pretty incredible battery life. I can run outside (aka GPS) 5x a week and it still lasts 10 days between charges.
I got the Pixel watch 2 as part of the Pixel 8 pro deal, tried selling it unopened for a while but after Christmas I opened it to try it out. I really loved all the smart features above and beyond my Garmin. My Fenix gets notifications and can do simple (preconfigured) replies to msgs, but that's it. So the Pixel watch's "smarts" were cool. but the rest is bleh...
Good:
- Display color/brightness
- Smarts, integration with Pixel
- taking calls (part of above I guess)
Bad:
- Size. It's way way too small for me
- Battery (see above)
- Having to have two apps (Pixel Watch and Fitbit aps is just stupid)
- Weirdness with controlling phone notification sounds when the watch is being worn
- No easy way to sync steps tracking to Garmin, so basically while I tested this I wore two watches, since I wanted to keep my data going to Garmin
What smart features did you enjoy?
I want a watch that doesn't look like a toy.
I understand that not everyone wants a giant sports watch. But the current line is too far in the other direction.
If they are going to make two sizes, then they might as well be two different styles.
Better battery life, physical buttons, and apps that actually work and don't lag out or constantly close themselves in the background.
My garmin venu 2 is a pretty solid smartwatch, it lasts several weeks even with GPS use for skiing, it's reliable and stuff never closes on its own.
I've tried android wear before, it's awful and the battery life is abysmal even with all the power saving features turned on.
Nothing really. I just want 4 things:
- show time and notifications
- remote control DND
- ping my phone
- long battery
everything else is just a gimmick to me
- Long battery
- Long battery
- Long battery
- Just let me show time when I look at my watch and forget about if it's charged
If by remote control DND, you mean setting your phone's DND status from your watch, check out SimpleWear.
I really want a rectangular screen.
Main thing I want is a better speaker. Making calls is almost impossible and is embarrassing. Better battery life would be second to a better speaker imo