Fully resetting the watch is a sorry thing that I too have to deal with. Despite Wear OS 4 (on GW 6) having backups and switching functionality, half of the time it doesn't work. I don't have a rooted phone, but switching phones or God forbid, you forcibly remove Galaxy Watch from Bluetooth settings and then you have to redo things from scratch sometimes.
Too bad, that some Garmin models support Gadgetbridge, but I don't think any Wear OS model does.
Google introduced a vapor chamber for the Pixel 9 series, but I haven’t noticed this phone (Tensor G4) perform any cooler than what came before.
This would arguably be my biggest gripe with the Pixel. And this issue would probably be furthur exacerbated in hot tropical climate. All the AI in the world can't do me any good if I have a consistently warm phone.
It seems the question now isn't whether an appliance will get smart features, it's a question of when.
It's a shame. This was the case with both their previous watches as well.
I had a Galaxy Watch 4 previously 40mm model and it's battery barely lasted a day, especially with AOD enabled. Ironically, Samsung had released previous models like S3 Frontier with 3 day battery life, so their brand new smartwatch was actually a downgrade. Wear OS sucks so much at battery life.
To make things worse, GW 4 took nearly 2 hours to charge fully via it's slow WPC based charging. To make things worse, it constantly throttled and overheated in hot summers.
Samsung stuck to it's wireless charging mechanism even on GW 6 and 7. So, while Xiaomi's smartwatch with ~500mAh battery can charge in 40 minutes while my GW 6 takes ~80 minutes to charge a ~425maH battery.
I use NewPipe only despite having a current YouTube Premium subscription because the official app is bonkers. It's hilariously stuffed with useless features that can't be toggled off(games, shorts), half baked stuff like specific video quality can't be chosen for all videos by default( has to be on a per video basis). Oh, and every other time I visit some channel, asking me to join the YouTube's channel for additional perks. You just took money from the user to give them a sub par experience.
That hardware giveaway thing is only available in couple of countries right now, US being one. Otherwise, one can be a Platinum member in other parts of the world and they would get nothing.
Pixel is notorious for becoming hotter than normal. That's why Google added a vapor chamber to it's Pro series of phones this time. Heck, despite their slow charging speeds(27W, I think), they throttle even below that during warm days.
I haven't been banned from Reddit till now though if we are talking of different social media, does LinkedIn count? They wanted me to prove that I am a real person one day and upload some verification document/proof for that. I was running LinkedIn without any profile image and hardly ever opened it. One day I suddenly made couple of comments for first time and next day, came the hammer.
I still can't roll my head across the reason as to why a vaccum cleaner needs an account? What is next, account for using the faucet or toaster?
How will Daily Mirror remember I paid if they are not storing any cookies for me as they promise? Also,asking to pay just for valuing your privacy, I don't assume this payment will lead to removal of ads or any more exclusive benefits.
Aww, if they really put half as much effort into the Pixel Watch as they do on it's marketing, the former would come in repairable form factor by now.