Google’s Pixel Watch, which has been awaited for almost eight years, will be released this Thursday, October 13. It incorporates the features of Fitbit, a brand acquired by Google for several billion dollars. However, it seems that not all of them are present.
The Pixel Watch is Google’s first connected watch and will be released this Thursday, October 13, from 379 euros. Running on Wear OS 3, it integrates the functions of the Fitbit system. A comparison, however, reveals that not all options are integrated into Google’s watch.
Missing functions on the Pixel Watch
This is a comparison between the technical sheets on the Google Store of the latest Fitbit watches such as the Sense 2 or the Versa 4 by Connect The Watts which allows you to see what the Pixel Watch is missing. Thus, there is no mention of automatic training detection, which is one of the key features of Fitbit devices.
This detection uses continuous heart rate tracking to detect when you’re working out without telling the watch that you’re working out. Workouts don’t stop or pause automatically either.
This does not allow us to say with certainty that the Pixel Watch deprives itself of this functionality, but it does not look very good.
A less interesting Pixel Watch for monitoring health data
We also learn that swimming motion tracking is not supported. Further, it is indicated that the Pixel Watch does not send notifications warning of an irregular heartbeat which can nevertheless warn of the risks of atrial fibrillation.
Finally, the Pixel Watch does not have a priori no stress notifications, guided breathing exercises, alarms” SmartWake “, SpO2 monitoring or Fitbit sleep profiles. In addition to this, it can be noted that the Pixel Watch has no compatibility with iOS devices, unlike the wearables Fitbit.
However, we can hope that these features will arrive in future updates, since the Pixel Watch seems sufficiently equipped, at least in terms of its sensors. As noted 9to5Google” IHealth and fitness tracking has always been by far Wear OS’s biggest sore point as a platform, and Fitbit’s integration was supposed to finally fix that. “.
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