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Big oof: The Google Pixel Watch 3 can't be repaired, only replaced (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google has confirmed to us that the Pixel Watch 3 can’t be repaired and can only be replaced.
This is bad news for environmental reasons, suggesting that broken watches will end up in landfills.
This isn’t the first Pixel Watch model that can’t be repaired, though.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is my same complaint. I have been using Garmin watches for fitness, and when they got got a little less utilitarian looking I started wearing it full time to be a watch/track steps and continue tracking fitness activities.

I would like a better notification handling and ability to reply to notifications/message but not at the expense of battery life.

I got a Pixel 2 watch 'free' with the purchase of a Pixel 8Pro last year. I tried wearing it for a few weeks, and no surprise, the battery life is just not enough for me (non starter). Second, IMHO that watch overall is too small. My Garmin is the largest they have (Fenix 6X Pro) as it had the best battery life. Going down to the tiny screen/battery Pixel watch 2 was just never going to work for me.

The 3 has two sizes now which is nice, but the battery life is still way to short.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had a Galaxy Watch 4 previously 40mm model and it's battery barely lasted a day, especially with AOD enabled. Ironically, Samsung had released previous models like S3 Frontier with 3 day battery life, so their brand new smartwatch was actually a downgrade. Wear OS sucks so much at battery life.

To make things worse, GW 4 took nearly 2 hours to charge fully via it's slow WPC based charging. To make things worse, it constantly throttled and overheated in hot summers.

Samsung stuck to it's wireless charging mechanism even on GW 6 and 7. So, while Xiaomi's smartwatch with ~500mAh battery can charge in 40 minutes while my GW 6 takes ~80 minutes to charge a ~425maH battery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'd guess I get about 10 days which would include 5-6 50 minute GPS activities and, wearing it / tracking HR 24/7.

Watch estimates 21 days on full charge (not accounting for activities).

I just don't have to think about /manage is