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I recently bought a smartwatch. After a thorough search I ended up with two options: ticwatch pro 5 and pixel watch 2. I ended with the pixel, because of the si

I recently bought a smartwatch. After a thorough search I ended up with two options: ticwatch pro 5 and pixel watch 2. I ended with the pixel, because of the size. It's a shame, I really liked the ticwatch, but most watches are just too big for my wrist size. The pixel is not great software-side (it has a sort of wallet garden, without a pixel phone most features aren't available) but ergonomically it's perfect. I don't know about fossil, but for me it seems like wear manufacturers haven't yet found what users want (except maybe for Apple, but that's probably because there is only one option)

gnicholas 3y ago
For me, and some of the other commenters here, it was more about the hybrid smartwatches that have 2-week battery lives. I never even tried their full-fledged smartwatches.
sofixa 3y ago
> The pixel is not great software-side (it has a sort of wallet garden, without a pixel phone most features aren't available) but ergonomically it's perfect. Really? Most reviews I read seemed to indicate the Pixel Watches work fine with any recent Android, contrary to Samsung's watches that require Samsung Android phones for most features.
- mikelward 3y ago
  Without a Pixel Watch, Do Not Disturb doesn't sync. I think also swiping notifications away on the watch doesn't dismiss them on the phone. Wouldn't call that "most features", but they're quite important to me.
- TrianguloY 3y ago
  Do not disturb doesn't sync, you can't see the watch battery from the phone, nor even get a notification when it finishes charging. They are not most features, I should have used "some", my mistake, but for an android watch connected to an android phone...it's not pleasant. Still, I have them by using third party apps (one of them open source where I even fixed a bug, the other from tasker) which is why I prefer android to other proprietary os watches.
nfriedly 3y ago
I have a ticwatch pro 3, and I have mixed feelings about it. I was pretty happy with it early on, but the software was always a little hit-and-mis. In particular the Google voice assistant stopped working a year or so ago, and when they finally rolled out the WearOS 3 update a few weeks ago, it just removed that feature (and several others) rather than fixing it. I am a big fan of the dual-display with a super-low-power, sunlight-readable LCD and a richer OLED behind it. I also really liked having a user-assignable hardware button, although mine stopped working after a couple of years, and apparently the WearOS 3.0 "upgrade" took away that feature too.
- TrianguloY 3y ago
  I don't use the assistant (in fact I have it disabled) so I personally wouldn't mind. The user assignable button is wonderful (the pixel has two buttons: you can configure nothing of them) really sad they removed the feature too. The dual display was my biggest lost. I need always on, and very few watches support it. With the pixel I get 2 days of battery with it, which I've become used to, but I would love to have that lcd display. As for wear os: I had a moto sport with wear 1. It was basic but functional. Then it was upgraded to wear 2 and it improved a lot, I really liked it. But then the wear 3 was released (which that watch never got) and it's like google forgot everything else. Now I have wear 4, which I don't feel particularly happy about it, mainly because of the horrible material theme (seriously, everything is sized as if you used your full thumb, padding everywhere, wear 2 had almost double the information visible)
- nfriedly 3y ago
  * correction: it's now on Wear OS 3.5 after the recent "upgrade". I'm not sure what it was on before that, but it might have been 3.0.

gnicholas 3y ago

For me, and some of the other commenters here, it was more about the hybrid smartwatches that have 2-week battery lives. I never even tried their full-fledged smartwatches.

sofixa 3y ago

> The pixel is not great software-side (it has a sort of wallet garden, without a pixel phone most features aren't available) but ergonomically it's perfect. Really? Most reviews I read seemed to indicate the Pixel Watches work fine with any recent Android, contrary to Samsung's watches that require Samsung Android phones for most features.

mikelward 3y ago
Without a Pixel Watch, Do Not Disturb doesn't sync. I think also swiping notifications away on the watch doesn't dismiss them on the phone. Wouldn't call that "most features", but they're quite important to me.
TrianguloY 3y ago
Do not disturb doesn't sync, you can't see the watch battery from the phone, nor even get a notification when it finishes charging. They are not most features, I should have used "some", my mistake, but for an android watch connected to an android phone...it's not pleasant. Still, I have them by using third party apps (one of them open source where I even fixed a bug, the other from tasker) which is why I prefer android to other proprietary os watches.

nfriedly 3y ago

I have a ticwatch pro 3, and I have mixed feelings about it. I was pretty happy with it early on, but the software was always a little hit-and-mis. In particular the Google voice assistant stopped working a year or so ago, and when they finally rolled out the WearOS 3 update a few weeks ago, it just removed that feature (and several others) rather than fixing it. I am a big fan of the dual-display with a super-low-power, sunlight-readable LCD and a richer OLED behind it. I also really liked having a user-assignable hardware button, although mine stopped working after a couple of years, and apparently the WearOS 3.0 "upgrade" took away that feature too.

TrianguloY 3y ago
I don't use the assistant (in fact I have it disabled) so I personally wouldn't mind. The user assignable button is wonderful (the pixel has two buttons: you can configure nothing of them) really sad they removed the feature too. The dual display was my biggest lost. I need always on, and very few watches support it. With the pixel I get 2 days of battery with it, which I've become used to, but I would love to have that lcd display. As for wear os: I had a moto sport with wear 1. It was basic but functional. Then it was upgraded to wear 2 and it improved a lot, I really liked it. But then the wear 3 was released (which that watch never got) and it's like google forgot everything else. Now I have wear 4, which I don't feel particularly happy about it, mainly because of the horrible material theme (seriously, everything is sized as if you used your full thumb, padding everywhere, wear 2 had almost double the information visible)
nfriedly 3y ago
* correction: it's now on Wear OS 3.5 after the recent "upgrade". I'm not sure what it was on before that, but it might have been 3.0.