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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

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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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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. 😬
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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. 🤔
Check out the details here : https://t.co/FKLdWcJoLB

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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 😬
Learn more : https://t.co/2215or88QC

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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. 😬
Learn more here:
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Garmin just did something it almost never does: discount a current watch. 🙌🏻 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

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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 😬
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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.
https://t.co/cw6QgXAYqc

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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

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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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