TL;DR
- 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.
These smart watches are garbage. Even Apple watches have rather short lifetimes
My Garmin is going strong 5 years later, and I’ve got no incentive to upgrade
I’ve worn my Series 4 every day since September 21, 2018. My son is still using the Series 3 I gifted him the same day. I bought that one September 22, 2017. I don’t baby my watch in any way
Thought about an upgrade a few times, but haven’t had a compelling reason to do so
How’s the battery life holding up?
I put it on at 7 am, it’s 12:19am now and I’m at 37%
And I’m still at work… fml
So not far off 24 hours? That doesn’t seem bad seeing as they only say 19 odd hours on a Series 9?
I’m thinking about giving the iPhone a try again. I haven’t used one since the 4S. It’s been Nexus/Pixel up to now but I’m getting a bit bored.
My pebble’s been running happily for nearly a decade and there’s actually nothing new that’s really a proper replacement
Hope it sees many more years to come!
I was interested in a steel but they’re hard to come across where I am - most likely going to go with a Bangle.js instead for the always-on screen, long battery life and programmability
aaaand thats why they make them disposable.
I’ve been using a pinetime for a while now. While it’s far from a full smartwatch, it does all I need it to do, which is pretty much just tell the time and show me notifications from my phone. Has been working great so far.
It’s also theoretically repairable, but the production models get glued shut so they’re watertight, so idk how easy that’s gonna be.
Would you recommend a pinetime? Controlling yt music, morning alarms, notifications, and replying to texts (if even possible) would be my main use case.
For those use cases I don’t think I would, no.
You can control music, but it’s very primitive and doesn’t have a home-screen widget for example. The watch itself has alarms you can set, but it won’t ring when one on your phone goes off afaik, and you can’t reply to notifications, only view them.