laughs in Garmin

Bullshit. My fossil gen5 sport still doesn’t have Google assistant.

[edit to correct myself] apparently I did receive an update at some point recently that finally brought Goog assist

All these companies make anymore is e-waste. Maybe you’ll get 24 months of use out of it, and after that it’s glorified e-waste.

I’ve never owned a smart watch and stories like this only reinforce my dislike for the product category. I have a watch that is 60 years old and still works fine, and these smart watches won’t even make it till 6 years before they need to be tossed. This throw away culture we live in makes me sick.

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Can they get Samsung to stop using the goddamned watch speaker instead of the headset I have paired to the watch too? Because it’s infuriating when I “Okay google, call my wife” and it expects me to talk to my wife through my watch like Dick freaking Tracy when I have a fancy-ass headset multipoint paired to both watch and phone.

cries in to watch pro 3 ultra

Ah, I wonder whether this will make Mobvoi finally release that Wear OS3 update for the TicWatch Ultra they’ve announced since before they sold the watch.

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Ah who am I kidding. 😂

Plus I’ll be honest, having owned a smartwatch now: I don’t need one. All I used it for was paying, and frankly pressing a button to unlock it and tilting my wrist takes at best marginally more time than pulling the phone out of my pocket (which unlocks it since my thumb instinctively touches the fingerprint scanner doing that). In a lot of ways I just realized that an external screen for my phone that’s a mere 20-80cm away from it is just no good. It’s not a separate device after all, plus even then the tiny screen would make it near unusable anyways.

That being said, Horizon is an insanely pretty watchface, even if in Germany the weather is entirely off every single time.