Wired has some sick photos of a Pixel Watch 4 teardown. In my chats with the Pixel Watch team, I was told the inside would resemble a “bento box” and it certainly looks like it. Also: standard T2 screws everybody. This is such a huge step forward. Bravo, Google.
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Dare I say it? Google has the wearable juice.




As announced Thursday morning, Apple has now released new iPhone and Watch updates that re-enable the Blood Oxygen monitoring feature in the US for Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users as a workaround for the ITC’s import ban.
A lot of people are very excited about the return of Pebble smartwatches, but our first good look at the Time 2’s design has some admitting that nostalgia alone won’t get them to switch smartwatches.
Subsy:
“I love this for nostalgic reasons, but can’t ditch the Apple Watch for it.
I need NFC payment support, LTE for leaving my phone at home, and a good fitness app.”
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My colleague Allison was humbled by the attempt to ditch her phone and live on her Apple Watch alone, but a few commenters have chimed in to insist it can be done:
scttcnnr1:
I’ve done this for over a year now and have loved it - my phone stays in the office, which lets me check in on anything while at work, but outside of work I have found that an LTE Apple Watch does everything I need to do without any of the distracting apps. Been a huge improvement in my life.
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