5/8 Recommendation for Pixel Watch 4
No Dodgers game today.
I made a YouTube video this morning.
Also, I walked to a fish market (for the first time).
It's been about half a month since I started wearing the Pixel Watch 4.
I'd say my satisfaction level is about 80 points.
There are pros and cons, but the former seems to outweigh the latter.
<Pros>
・The number of times I open my smartphone has dropped drastically
Even when emails or LINE messages arrive, I can check them on the watch. It's really convenient!
Since I don't open my phone, the battery doesn't drain either!
Credit card payments and Suica can also be handled right from my wrist.
・Google Maps can be handled entirely on the watch (no need to look at the phone)
This, honestly, is amazing.
Once you experience this, you won't want to open maps on your phone and walk while looking at it.
Just by looking at my wrist, I can see the surrounding map and my route, and it even tells me where to turn right or left through watch vibrations and audio.
I feel like Conan Edogawa!
・You can use Gemini on the watch!
This is insane.
If I'm curious about a baseball game while running, I can ask the watch, "What's the score of the Giants vs. Hanshin game?" and it tells me. If I speak my schedule to the watch, it adds it to Google Calendar or sets a timer. Having a concierge on my watch is seriously amazing! However, there is plenty of room for improvement in terms of future smartphone x AI integration (more on this later).
・Running tracking
Starting and stopping runs, lap times, distance, GPS tracking—the watch does it all!
・Smartphone remote control (YouTube and Spotify)
You can control playback and volume from the watch. It's really convenient while walking or running!
<Cons>
・It's annoying when sleeping
I could just take it off, but since Fitbit measures things like sleep duration, I wear it out of habit. I could just take it off, though...
・It's annoying when using an arm pillow or crossing my arms
・The red light can sometimes make my skin itchy
・I feel like I shouldn't take the watch off because I think it's measuring things
<Things that don't really matter>
・It measures heart rate and sleep duration
It was interesting when I first started using it, but after a week, these numbers stopped mattering to me.
・Size and such
I'm wearing the 45mm model, but it doesn't feel uncomfortable at all.Bigger is better!
<Next-gen smartphone x AI (= what I expect)> *Casual chat
Current smartphones operate based on "apps," and AI is embedded there, running apps through the AI to satisfy our needs.
However, there is a limit to this. For example, if you tell your smartphone (x AI) while traveling on a train, "Wake me up before Tokyo Station," it can't do it, and if you say, "Tell me the result every time Ohtani's at-bat ends," it can't do that either.
In other words, it answers requests for that specific moment, but it cannot be given tasks for the future.
I saw in an article that smartphones will evolve from being "app"-centric tobecoming "task"-centric in the future.
In other words, if you give your smartphone tasks (jobs) like the examples mentioned earlier, the smartphone will accept them one by one and return the results to the user at the appropriate time.
Once task-based smartphone x AI is realized, I believe the user experience will leap to an even higher level.
Also, its compatibility with smartwatches at that time should be even greater than it is now.
I can't wait.
So, I've written this rambling post, but overall, the Pixel Watch is a great device, and it has become an indispensable device for me from now on.