Enshittified garbage. I bought the last generation and it's unusable unless you fully submit to the Google shackles. Didn't even want to have the damn thing in my house and took it back.
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I got a 3 with my phone, and cannot be bothered - unless someone manages to break it and work out a custom OS situation, the thing is worthless to me.
After having almost every iteration of an Android watch I switched to Gaming last year. Have not missed a single thing about android or that ecosystem with all the fitness insights Android can't do today.
So yes, Android watch is now worth zero to me.
I would never consider a smartwatch that is locked to one ecosystem, so Pixel watches have no appeal
This would be so nice if it was FOSS
I'm literally still rocking a watch 3 I bought 5 years ago. Even as old as it is, I'm still getting like 2-2.5 days out of its battery going for a run every morning. And I'm supposed to buy a new watch with that little battery life right out of the box? Nah.
Apps are somewhat buggy right now. My shokz will partially disconnect after the first song and exercise audibles are non-existent. (The audio mutes, but the watch still responds to play/pause button presses. This could be just an issue with the shokz app being confused for the time being.)
No difference in GPS connect time from the pixel watch 3, which has been historically buggy at times.
But yeah, random glitches all over the place. It's tolerable enough and would expect app updates to fix most of them.