Google was incredibly late to the smartwatch game — and it showed with both the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2. The first was a fancy Fitbit plagued by poor battery life and a host of odd quirks. The second successfully put its whole focus on addressing the foibles of the first. Both were competent smartwatches, but with the Pixel Watch 3, it finally feels like Google’s done playing catch-up.
Seriously, there are so many updates with the Pixel Watch 3 that I could easily spend 5,000 words simply detailing them all. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Instead, the updates fall into two buckets: refinement and expansion. About half are incremental tweaks that address previous issues and improve the experience. The rest take the Pixel Watch into newer territory, like more advanced running and better integration into Google’s ecosystem. Alone, these updates aren’t much to write home about. But together, you can see that Google isn’t just laying down the foundation anymore….