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There aren't any good Android watches really. Perhaps this will change with Google and Samsung pairing up but right now as Android user you're pretty much out o

There aren't any good Android watches really. Perhaps this will change with Google and Samsung pairing up but right now as Android user you're pretty much out of luck

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
I thought parent meant payment via android phones. Is there a difference between that and watches? NFC (Google pay) should work the same across the Android ecosystem, no?
smoldesu 5y ago
I dunno, I bought a cheap-o Fossil watch a couple years ago on a whim, and I actually ended up using the Google Pay feature most of all. Being able to leave my phone and wallet in my backpack while I pay for coffee felt like a whole new level of real-life Disneyland.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  I had a Galaxy Watch Active with Samsung Pay for a while and I have to agree. That is a great feature if it works. However, it didn't actually work very well. You have to do several button presses and taps on the phone, during which it launches very slowly, and once you get to the payment part it often failed for whatever reason. "Multiple cards detected", "payment denied", whatever. It was quicker to fish the card out of my wallet and much less stressful. PS: The card I paid with when it failed was the exact same card that I had linked to Samsung Pay, there were no balance issues :)
  - smoldesu 5y ago
    Android Pay (when I used it) was distinctly different. As long as it was unlocked (eg. hadn't been taken off your wrist) you could press a button to quick-launch the NFC payment app. Since I wasn't using the shortcuts for anything else, it worked quite well for me.
ljm 5y ago
There aren't any good Smart Watches, really. Apple aren't good smartwatch manufacturers when their smartwatches only know how to talk to other Apple devices and services (like HealthKit or whatever it's called) and actively prevent compatibility with other systems. I mean, that's just buying into Apple's hype. If their watch was so good, they'd make it talk through open standards and they wouldn't go for ecosystem lock-in: it would be good on its own merit. My Samsung Galaxy watch has had an EKG sensor for longer than it has taken for Apple to add their own. It's technologically superior, and also has a circular face instead of being a big square block, and has better battery life since I can get a good 2 days or more out of it. But ultimately it is also as bad as Apple because it only works well with Samsung's ecosystem.
- thefounder 5y ago
  Apple sells more smartwatches so the market has a diff opinion than yours
  - cnst 5y ago
    But doesn't Android sell more devices overall? Does that imply Android is better?
- HatchedLake721 5y ago
  Sorry but that’s a lousy argument. The whole point about Apple (for decades) is vertical integration, building hardware and software specifically optimized for the said hardware. That’s what Apple is in it’s core, that’s why they’ve been revolutionizing industries and that’s why iPhones, iPads and MacBooks are most performant and battery efficient consumer devices for years. It’s like saying - “There aren’t any good consoles really. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo aren’t good console manufacturers when their consoles only know how to talk to other PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo services and actively prevent compatibility with other systems.”
  - lostmsu 5y ago
    > Sorry but that’s a lousy argument. > MacBooks are most performant Huh? MacBooks have the same performance as corresponding Windows laptops. That only slightly changed with M1, but it doesn't seem anything to do with vertical integration, and rather just the result of buying out 5nm production. Also there is complete lack of models with Nvidia GPUs, so they are a lackluster in graphics.

There aren't any good Android watches really. Perhaps this will change with Google and Samsung pairing up but right now as Android user you're pretty much out of luck

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

I thought parent meant payment via android phones. Is there a difference between that and watches? NFC (Google pay) should work the same across the Android ecosystem, no?

smoldesu 5y ago

I dunno, I bought a cheap-o Fossil watch a couple years ago on a whim, and I actually ended up using the Google Pay feature most of all. Being able to leave my phone and wallet in my backpack while I pay for coffee felt like a whole new level of real-life Disneyland.

GekkePrutser 5y ago
I had a Galaxy Watch Active with Samsung Pay for a while and I have to agree. That is a great feature if it works. However, it didn't actually work very well. You have to do several button presses and taps on the phone, during which it launches very slowly, and once you get to the payment part it often failed for whatever reason. "Multiple cards detected", "payment denied", whatever. It was quicker to fish the card out of my wallet and much less stressful. PS: The card I paid with when it failed was the exact same card that I had linked to Samsung Pay, there were no balance issues :)
- smoldesu 5y ago
  Android Pay (when I used it) was distinctly different. As long as it was unlocked (eg. hadn't been taken off your wrist) you could press a button to quick-launch the NFC payment app. Since I wasn't using the shortcuts for anything else, it worked quite well for me.

ljm 5y ago

There aren't any good Smart Watches, really. Apple aren't good smartwatch manufacturers when their smartwatches only know how to talk to other Apple devices and services (like HealthKit or whatever it's called) and actively prevent compatibility with other systems. I mean, that's just buying into Apple's hype. If their watch was so good, they'd make it talk through open standards and they wouldn't go for ecosystem lock-in: it would be good on its own merit. My Samsung Galaxy watch has had an EKG sensor for longer than it has taken for Apple to add their own. It's technologically superior, and also has a circular face instead of being a big square block, and has better battery life since I can get a good 2 days or more out of it. But ultimately it is also as bad as Apple because it only works well with Samsung's ecosystem.

thefounder 5y ago
Apple sells more smartwatches so the market has a diff opinion than yours
- cnst 5y ago
  But doesn't Android sell more devices overall? Does that imply Android is better?
HatchedLake721 5y ago
Sorry but that’s a lousy argument. The whole point about Apple (for decades) is vertical integration, building hardware and software specifically optimized for the said hardware. That’s what Apple is in it’s core, that’s why they’ve been revolutionizing industries and that’s why iPhones, iPads and MacBooks are most performant and battery efficient consumer devices for years. It’s like saying - “There aren’t any good consoles really. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo aren’t good console manufacturers when their consoles only know how to talk to other PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo services and actively prevent compatibility with other systems.”
- lostmsu 5y ago
  > Sorry but that’s a lousy argument. > MacBooks are most performant Huh? MacBooks have the same performance as corresponding Windows laptops. That only slightly changed with M1, but it doesn't seem anything to do with vertical integration, and rather just the result of buying out 5nm production. Also there is complete lack of models with Nvidia GPUs, so they are a lackluster in graphics.