Google Pixel Watch 4 Review: Android Watch to beat

Five years ago, when I came time to review Android Smart Watch, I was crying. At that time, anything that was not a Samsung watch was excellently disappointing. The space was scattered, the battery life was disappointing, and it seemed like not. But now, 9 349.99 Google Pixel Watch is the most interesting flagship smart watch launch of the 4 season.

It was not on my 2025 Bingo card.

Pixel Watch 4 may look like a pixel watch 3, but it is mainly different clock. In terms of hardware, the fourth -generation clock is now repaired, it includes dome display, and upgrades sunglasses like large batteries, a new speaker and hepatics, and a sharp processor. The wear OS 6 has a complete re -design with the expression of material 3, and of course, Gemini is now on the wrist, which has a new rise to talk indicator. On the front of fitness and health, sleep tracking has improved, now dual frequency is GPS, and automatic activity has improved. As far as battery life is concerned, it lasts longer and takes faster.

The latest pixel clock does not upset Google’s design language. It still comes in 41 mm and 45 mm in size and looks the same on your wrist. But get closer, and you will start to look at the differences.

Curved letters of the Dome Activa 360 display are especially noteworthy on the 45 mm clock. Beles are 16 % thin, which gives you 10 % more screen real estate. Whenever I used to scroll through menus, curves were the most remarkable. Google’s content 3 expressing software design is a smart refresh. The tiles hugged the edge of the dome display, and the dynamic images and buttons are larger with more round edges. You can fit more information on the same screen, and the playful design Pixel Watch 4 gives a more specific taste than before. When the pixel is folded with the phone, the devices match each other’s color themes, which is combined together.

The Apple Watch Ultra 3, the display is also bright, the maximum in 3,000 nets. It is easy to see in direct sunlight.

But this year’s battery life is the biggest hardware collision. Together with new power efficient processors and improve the performance of OS 6, the clock is significantly longer on the same charge thanks to large batteries. My colleague Elison Johnson took a regular day and a half day with a small watch of 41 mm. I am checking 45 mm and got 45 hours on my first full charge. This is more than 32 hours in a Randone test of last year’s Pixel Watch 3. I have always been always 36 to 42 hours.

It also has an impressive sharp charging. I placed a pixel watch 4 at 6:44 at 6:44 at the charger with 14 % of the battery. Until 7:18 am, I was up to 97 %. I am very impressed with the time of rapid charge that I am ready to forgive that we now have the third proprietary pixel watch charger in four years.

Finally, when I was turning the straps, I was very excited to see the patch, which allows you to open the watch. Wired There is deep tears, but you can change the battery and display yourself. The ingredients will eventually be available through iFixit, and you will be able to repair the watch through Google. While we have not finished the pixel clock since the other general device, design Is In the past, Google has not done anything good on this front, so it is a welcome development.

I wrote a little about Gemini on the wrist this summer. I have a lot of grip. This is still not intuitive when you should use on the phone, multilateral questions are delayed considerably, and it is not always clear how it is different from Google Assistant. He said, Pixel Watch 4 is a sleeper compared to Samsung.

The first is a sign of dialogue. That looks like. You lift your wrists, and Gemini wakes up. You do not need to do any foreign power rangers. Unless I tweeted the sound sensitivity options, which were buried in the signal settings, the questions about talking did not always work.

The reformed gymnasium tile is more useful. Now you can save two “shortcuts” repeatedly for Gemini’s questions such as “summarize my last email” or “turn off all my lights.” (I use the latter Daily; The former was not so useful.)

There are two other “smart” AI features on the wrist. There is a smart response, which gives your messages more personal answers. It requires that you combine at least one Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Series, or Pixel 10 Series phone. However, my 95 % text messages are either very tall and juicy to use it Or There are so many irresistible that ordinary canned answers are sufficient. Notification Coldown is a new feature to change how many times you are notified without any disturbed mode. Let’s just say that I still get a business information from the door of my nest.

I have not yet received the new AI -powered Fit Bit Health Coach to test. It is not coming until the end of this month. But there are some notable changes in health and fitness in Pixel Watch 4.

Improves detection of major activity. The clock will automatically record some cardio activities for at least 15 minutes. Within an hour of expiry you will receive a notification and activity recovery. You can also train AI to better recognize some activities than others, such as Trail Runs vs. Road Runs.

I tried it for both walks and runs. It properly recorded the type of activity and the beginning and closing hours. I’m bad at walking, so it was a good benefit. Allison also told me that this feature has done good work for its cycling sessions. However, this feature may not yet work for anything that is not a walk, run, motorcycle ride, spinning, row, elliptical, or team sports workout.

Pixel Watch 4 adds a dual frequency of GPS, which is believed to improve the maps of the route in difficult regions like cities or dense forests. I was waiting for it, since the Pixel Watch (and Fit Bit) GPS maps have historically received a creative license with my runs. In five runs, I saw a significant improvement. But when compared to the same runs recorded on Ultra 3? The fit bat still has to do something.

Emergency satellite SOS is limited when you are actually at risk without access to cellular contact. Like Apple Watch Ultra 3, this was not a scene in which I found myself, despite the past few weeks traveled to three mountains in dense state forests. You can try the satellite demo (though it does not really connect you to the satellite), but more helpful to think of it as a feature of backup safety than the basic sources of emergency communication.

to beat the Android clock

For such a long time, Samsung has been the dominant name in a place to wear Android. But after relatively Stat Galaxy Watch 8, I am sure that Pixel Watch 4 is now the best Android Smart Watch in terms of price, feature set, and design.

Certainly, One Plus has a better battery life with its smart watchs. Yes, Samsung has a physical rotation of classical watches. But if I see which company has a full package, And A vision about what Android Smart Watch should go next? I have to hand it over to Google and Pixel Watch 4.