The Walkie-Talkie app for Apple Watch that lets users send push-to-talk voice messages to one another over FaceTime has been quietly removed in the first watchOS 27 developer beta, with no option to reinstall it. It was first introduced alongside watchOS 5 in 2018.
It’s less about which gadget. It’s better to be honest about what slots best into your life right now.
Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.
Just like last year, Apple has announced new fitness content that will start rolling out next week (if you want to try another app, we’ve got suggestions).
There are new multi-week Strength, HIIT, or Yoga Fitness Comeback workouts, new music playlists, a Strava challenge for Apple Watch owners, and new Time to Walk audio episodes with Penn Badgley, Mel B, and Michelle Monaghan.
The Mous Pixel Watch Charger, available through Google’s online store for $50, is the first third-party charger that works with the Pixel Watch 4’s side-mounted charging pins. It’s larger and potentially more stable than Google’s $30 Pixel Watch Quick Charge Dock, and can connect to other Mous charging pads.
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This rebooted device does less than most watches, lasts much longer, and is almost exactly what I want from a wearable.
Rebble, which has kept the Pebble platform going, is at odds with Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky, just as Pebble is making its comeback.
Rebble is accusing Migicovsky’s company, Core Devices, of stealing its work, while Migicovsky claims Rebble is trying to build a walled garden around data scraped from the original Pebble Appstore.
Earlier this month, the Pebble app returned to iOS and Android with support not just for the new generation of Pebble smartwatches, but also the original wearables. That means those out there still clinging to their old Pebble 2 from 2016 will no longer have to rely on Rebble.
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In the teardown, it got a 9/10 for repairability. Most smartwatches score a 3 or a 4. Where there was glue and heartbreak, there’s now screws and gaskets. This is monumental for the category and a big reason why I wrote this is the Android smartwatch to beat.
I signed up for wearable maximalism, but with each passing day, I feel more cyborg than human.
It’s been a while since a major software update hit the Pixel Watch 2 and 3, but Google’s October update that’s rolling out now is a big one. The update introduces Wear OS 6, which features the new “youthful” Material 3 Expressive design language, plus other features.
The company has... let’s just say a rep for killing its products off. So I’m going to celebrate the fourth Pixel Watch turning out to be the best Android smartwatch around, and hope Google learns that there are upsides to seeing something through.
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Amazing what happens when you actually stick with a product, isn’t it?
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After lagging behind for so long, it’s been wild to see Google come this far in the smartwatch game.
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Satellite, 5G, and longer battery are great, but aren’t good reasons for most Ultra owners to upgrade.
