Google's Health Guardian is four different products. Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5 get three health trends free. Fitbit Air gets two, later, behind Premium. Pixel Watch 1 and 2 get nothing. Confusing but here's what you need to know:
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#pixelwatch#fitbitAir
Xiaomi's HyperOS 4 phones can now connect directly to an Apple Watch Series 6 or newer. Calls, notifications and live activities work without an iPhone nearby. Apple tried this for three years and gave up.
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#xiaomi
A month after launch, the Fenix 9 bug list has passed 90 entries. Seven were fixed in 6.48. Crashes are still being reported on 6.48, including reboots when you press the button to start a workout.
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A San Diego jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion over the Taptic Engine, the part that taps your wrist. The jury found it was not willful, and heard no expert damages opinion. Apple is appealing. ๐ฌ
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Garmin has reportedly bought Moxy Monitor, the muscle oxygen sensor company. No announcement is expected: too small to trigger SEC disclosure. Garmin filed a Muscle Battery trademark in February. ๐ค
Check out the details here : https://t.co/FKLdWcJoLB
Series 12 and Ultra 4 owners had watches restarting during Siri, Maps, calls and workouts. The crash logs show a Neural Engine timeout, so erasing the watch did not help, nor did a replacement. Yikes ๐ฌ
Learn more : https://t.co/2215or88QC
Garmin's first stable Fenix 9 update fixed seven bugs and left the Bluetooth dropouts alone. One owner counted six AirPods disconnects in a 15km run, with music restarting at full volume. He is returning the watch.
Yikes: https://t.co/Nu9EH55FDQ
Apple has moved from exploring a screenless fitness band to building prototypes of one. Gurman says Tim Cook and Eddy Cue are behind it, and it would not launch before 2028.
Learn more: https://t.co/91bERZ9zWw
Your Series 12 charges faster, but only with a charger Apple didn't announce. Same name, same $29, model A3277, 10W instead of 5W. A Series 11 gains nothing. Read up if you own a drawer of old pucks:
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#appleWatch
Upgrading to the Series 12 could cost you a health feature. Apple's own support page says hypertension alerts may not work in 33 countries, including Canada, Australia and Japan.
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Samsung's One UI 9 Watch beta is now running on three generations at once: Watch 6, 7 and 8. Daily Cardio Load, GPX trail routes and a gesture overhaul are all in it.
Learn more here: https://t.co/MXY6O3PVeu
Same revenue. Opposite bets. Suunto cut R&D to 7.4 million euros. Polar kept spending 20.2 million. One is buying margin, the other is buying a future.
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#suunto#polar
Your Garmin data is locked to Garmin apps. The company just stopped letting new developers in, will not say when it reopens, and built no way to tell anyone. ๐ฌ
Learn more here:
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Garmin just did something it almost never does: discount a current watch. ๐๐ป The Forerunner 70 is $219.99, its first cut since May and the lowest it has ever been. Check it out: https://t.co/tHnCH4wRB8
Apple shipped a smaller screen inside a bigger case. The Series 12 display is 2% smaller than the Series 11, the case grew a millimeter, and the pixel count never changed. Owners are not happy ๐ฌ
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Garmin ran 5MB of RAM in its flagships while Suunto and Polar ran 37MB. The Fenix 9 bumps it to 7.5MB and calls the lag fixed. Owners aren't buying it. And it matters if you're on a Fenix 8: your fix never shipped:
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COROS just put full offline maps on a $249 watch. Street names, trails, POIs. It used to take a $300+ Pace Pro to get them. Huge if you're cross-shopping budget running watches: Garmin's entry tier still follows breadcrumbs.
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@COROSGlobal
Only 5% of Garmin users average an "Excellent" sleep score. The average is 71, not the 90s you see in screenshots. Here's what actually counts as a good score, and how the 0-100 number gets calculated.
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GPS signals across the US just got bent by 33 feet in a single solar storm, and scientists had never seen it happen at this scale. What it means for your watch's accuracy (and why multi-band won't save you): https://t.co/d15syHrnUH
Garmin's safety stack had one gap: nothing worked unless you started a workout or crashed. Fenix 9's Locate fills it with a single position pin, on demand, for people you trust. Just don't count on it past cell range.
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