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Best of the Batch: The Google Pixel Watch 3 - 41mm LTE - DEMO & REVIEW
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Sep 20, 2024
Third time's the charm with the Google Pixel Watch 3. Now it comes in 41mm and 45mm, LTE for phone-less connectivity (optional), and a screen that's both bigger and brighter. Tech expert Dave Taylor spent a week with a Pixel Watch 3 and shares his impressions - and a detailed demo of both the watch and the Watch app on a Pixel 8a phone - in this review video. Conclusion: There's so much to like, this is easily one of the best Android smartwatches on the market and well worth a look. Watch courtesy of AT&T Wireless. Check it out at: https://www.att.com/buy/phones/google-pixel-watch-3-41mm.html Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #pixelwatch #watch3 #pixelwatch3 #androidwatch #wearos #att #askdavetaylor
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The latest pixel watch from Google. Let's have a closer look
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. This is the Google Pixel Watch 3, 41mm
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And I did an unboxing. You should definitely check that out. If you're curious, what's in the box
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But long and short of it is it's a watch. It's a smart watch, and it's a huge improvement
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and really big update from the Pixel Watch 2. The biggest thing that people will immediately notice
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is it now has two different sizes. So this is the 41 millimeter
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and it's kind of small on my wrist. So Google also introduced the Pixel Watch 45 millimeter
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So that's a huge difference. But there's a lot more that they've changed here
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So it has a 16% reduced bezel, and the screen on the 41 millimeter is therefore 10% larger
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And then the screen on the 45 millimeter, which I don't have to show you
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is a whopping 40% larger than the old 41 millimeter. So it's a nice improvement
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There's a lot of things under the, well, we can't really say hood
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under the face that also make this really cool too. So let me give you some specs
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Let me show you some close-up photos. And then we'll switch to a live demo of some of the things this watch can do, because it's pretty slick
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So, first off, this is the 41 millimeter. It is a 1.26 inch display at 320 pixels per inch, and it weighs one ounce
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That's not including the band. And then the 45 millimeter is 1.45 inches
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And you're thinking, that's not much size difference. It's a lot of difference when it's on your wrist
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And the 45 millimeter is 326 pixels per inch, so it's a little bit better screen, and it's 1.3 ounces
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They're both powered by the Qualcomm SW 50100 Gen 1, and that's a quad core with four CPUs
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four processors in this watch, at 1.7 gigahertz. 32 gig storage, 2 gig of RAM, always on display
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it has a lot of smarts as you would expect from Google, one of which is it can automatically go into bedtime mode
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So if you like wearing a watch while you sleep and you want to get sleep data, which you can do
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then you just basically ignore it. Just go to sleep and it will say, hey, you're asleep
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I'm going to switch into bedtime mode, which is a different interface, a much, much dimmer screen
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and it's collecting stats that it wouldn't be collecting during the day
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And of course, fitness and health are a big piece of the story here with this new watch
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And it integrates the entire Fitbit sort of athletic and tracking and health system
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And there's a lot less that's hidden behind that Fitbit Pro paywall
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So they've moved a bunch of useful features into the generic Fitbit side
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I'll show you a little bit of that when we get to the live demo
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But 24 battery life if you put it in like low power mode It can go up to 36 hours Faster charging And for charging I should point out it has a special charging cable and it has four little
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contacts on it. And the other end is USBC. So you basically line up the wire with the crown, and then it's strong enough that you could
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actually hang it from the wall while you're charging. You will need to bring your own charge
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or plug it into your computer to charge, but the watch does come with the charging cable
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which is pretty darn helpful. And let's see, what else can I tell you
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It is twice the brightness of the pixel watch three. It's gone from 1,000 nits to 2,000 nits
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That's a huge step. What does that mean? It means when you're in bright sunlight
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it's still a crisp, easy to watch, easy to view, and easy to see display
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Very helpful. Also, a 60 hertz refresh instead of 30 hertz, So that gives all of the motion and activity on the watch looking
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It just looks better. It's less jumpy and jaggy. Okay, let's see
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Offline Google Maps runs WareOS 5.0, Bluetooth 5.3, IPX 68 water resistance
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so you can wear it swimming or surfing. And I'm not sure whether I would, but you can
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I guess surfing I'd be more concerned with because if for some reason it fell off your wrist
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you're out of luck. In a pool, you can find it. And that reminds me, so it does come with this integrated watch band
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and the watch band, I should show you, it has a sort of interesting setup where you push the other end of the band
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through the first hole, get it to where you want, and then the post goes in that actual hole
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and then you tuck the other half into the second hole, and now you have a nice fitting watch
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easy enough to do. So with all that, let's jump into a demo where I can show you some of the features on the watch screen and I'll show you a little bit of the watch app on my Pixel 8A. So let's get all that set up
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Here's the watch and here's the pixel watch app on my Android phone. Now, I have it unlocked so I can swipe down and you can see there is a ton of shortcuts here including helpful things like going into airplane mode
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or not and then brightness and brightness has an adaptive brightness feature which I
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don't actually like but many people do so you can enable that with a touch and
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you see it got a little dimmer but we want it to be maximum brightness and go
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back to shortcuts then we go right back to the home screen swipe up to get
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notifications and you can see I have various notifications and I can pick a
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message let's go to that Dave Taylor guy and I can respond right on the watch with
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let's just do a thumbs up, and I'll send it. So that's easy enough, right
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So I've sent that message. And if I swipe from the right
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then I can see I've only had a few steps for today
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And my heart rate, you're not seeing much because it's not on my wrist
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And quick start these are my typical workouts elliptical or running or hiking and you can pick more Sleep data as I said I don wear it for sleep
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Meeting I have in my calendar, I can add more things. Weather
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And map here gives me the ability to search and do various things
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And we're back to time. And then if I swipe from the left, then we get to that same thing
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So this is what in the app. they call tiles. So here are the tiles we just went through and I don't know why my
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phone is not very bright. Let's see if we can improve that. Let's see, okay. So
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here are the tiles that we just went through and I can add tiles or remove tiles by
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editing. So let's say I really don't track sleep. So I'm going to go ahead and get
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rid of that sleep tile and now it's gone. And see, see, get locked up
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And then so since we're in the app, I can also go into watch faces, and we have digital bold
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There's various faces. If I want to add this one to the watch, I can just tap on it, and it will not only add it
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but it will then use it as the current face, and now I have to unlock my watch again
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But I can also change faces on the watch. So just tap and hold, and now I can step through the different watch
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faces to find one that matches my mood today. Let's try Vista. That's easy enough
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And notice that changed and if I swipe over to Vista it'll now show that it's the one
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that's on the watch. You can add more watch faces by simply tapping and going
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through Google's pretty good library. There are also third-party watch faces you can
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get that vary, they seem to all be either 49 cents or 99 cents and then back on the
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watch, if I push on the crown, I now can see all of the apps that I have on my phone
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And there's some really nice new additions, including the ability to do voice memos and such
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But you can see there's also a fair number of sports-related things
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I can go to YouTube. And yes, you can actually watch videos on your watch
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Really, I'm not 100% sure why I would want to do that, but I can't
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and I can download music for workouts. We'll go back to the apps view
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You can interact with your camera on your phone. So notice it's switched to camera
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We'll go back again. And let's see. I'll show you one more. One that I like is calm. It helps you
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remember to breathe slowly. We'll use the built-in speaker. And
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Day one. The big idea. So I hope you can hear that
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Hi, I'm Jeff Warren. Welcome to How to Meditate. An introductory course for Cleopter
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Okay, so it literally, your watch can teach you how to meditate, which is pretty cool
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Now, there's the crown. There's also another button on the side, too
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And that button gets you to recents. So if I was ready to oops let go back to where we were if I was ready to jump into a workout I might go into Fitbit exercise and elliptical
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and I am ready to go for my elliptical run. So that is pretty sweet, and we can go back here
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and you can see there's a lot going on in the watch app
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There's a lot of settings, I mean a lot of settings, and there's a lot of customization you can do with Fitbit
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Unfortunately, because I didn't pay a the Fitbit app with the watch app, all of my historical data for workouts and for even just
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walking around. All of that seems to have been lost on the watch, which doesn't entirely make
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sense to me, but that's how they've designed it. I hope that was a really useful demo. I've been
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wearing the Pixel Watch 3 for somewhere between a week or two, and I've really enjoyed it. It is
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probably the state of the art at this point in terms of Android compatible smart watches. I still
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think they have a ways to go to beat the Apple Watch, but if you're on the Android side
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this really is one you've got to have a really close look at before you just go and get the
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Samsung because that's the other big competitor. And certainly if you have a pixel phone and
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you have a pixel watch, you are deep in the Google ecosystem and it's all going to work
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super smoothly. So we do need to talk about price. Before we get there, I'm going to ask you to subscribe
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then go ahead and leave a comment and let me know so that the next review is just a little bit
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better than this one. That's how it works. Cool. Now, this is the Google Pixel Watch 3. It comes
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in Obsidian, which is black, which is this color, and hazel and rose quartz. And this is
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449.99 at ATT.com or if you want to make payment plans, it is 625 a month times 36 months
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I should importantly point out this is an LTE watch. So it has some level of connectivity
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even if you leave your phone at home. There are non-LTE versions that you can get of the Pixel Watch that lower the price significantly
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If you want the 45 millimeter watch, that's $4999. at ATT.com, or they have a payment plan too
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It's $50 more. You can do the math. So definitely, AT&T sent me this watch to review, which I really appreciate
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And I really like it. I think that Google has been earnestly working on their watches
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And this is the first one, honestly, that I think is a solid competitor in the industry
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which is really cool and kind of makes me wonder what the watch Ford is going to look like
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But that's a little ahead of the game. So, Google Pixel Watch 3, if you have an Android phone, this is a solid option to check out
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That's all I got. Let me get this thing back on my wrist. So I'll catch you in my next video
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