It’s kinda funny how you can now buy a current pro Pixel and it costs less than the new OnePlus lol. The extra 15 layers of hands the devices pass through now are half that cost. Initially, they sold direct to the customer. When they ditched that..

Ah that sucks, I hate that part about my Fitbit. Sometimes I wake up and watch Netflix in bed and the tracker thinks I'm asleep haha.

Same. I'm using it to type this right now, many years later and it's still a wonderful phone.

Go suck an egg!

I want a gold Apple Watch ultra with a bigger face and a camera. That way I can finally be Dick Tracy.

That was always an option

Training status: Unproductive

<Runs today's surprise sprints suggestion >

Training status : Overreaching

Oh, and it's humid out so let's tack on a VO2MAX reduction for funsies.

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Watch it become true in a few months anyway lol

The software is doodoo but everything else is great

I’m sure I can leave it on the nightstand while I watch vr porn which is the only thing vr is good for.

Meanwhile here I am with my Apple Watch Ultra and the 8 paid apps I needed to get close to the what garmin app does, thinking wow that Garmin app was pretty good and it was free.

Yeah but google camera mod was a novelty for older phones, nowadays isn't that competitive anymore with newer sensors, chipsets and algorithms ( from my experience )

You will still find them on eBay.

I only used it for like the first month as I didn't want to wear my watch to bed every night. My takeaway was that it read a lot of downtime as sleeping that wasn't actually sleeping. I wake up at 4 a.m. or so all the time, for example, and just lay in bed scrolling my phone till 6 a.m. or so. But that time was tracked by the watch as REM/deep sleep, which was just inaccurate. The distance/GPS though is great, and that's my main use for running.

I meant the OnePlus had the issues but maybe it's just android 12 being universally shit

It wasn’t the quality. It was they were marketed as “a flagship phone with mid-range prices” like Google initially did the Pixel and Nexus. Both would were heavily consumer driven and cut expensive features the target consumers didn’t care about. And both pretty quickly they went to “flagship for slightly cheaper flagship prices” and “slightly nicer midrange for slightly above mid range prices”.

So the value proposition was kinda lost because instead of the giving a flagship with consumers what they wanted and bloat cut out, they just make straight flagships and mid ranges like everyone else. Your OnePlus target user wanted the top of the line processor, a big mid range screen, a physical fingerprint reader, a 3.5mm jacks, expandable storage, and a good enough camera.

I don’t need an always on display, an under screen finger print reader, and a Hasselbad camera. Why about the T series? Fair enough. But the issue is that OnePlus announces the T series like 9 months after the Pro series.

I don’t think this is entirely OnePlus fault. All these Chinese companies are openly in a dick measuring contest with Apple, Samsung, and each other trying to make “The best” because embarrassing Apple..etc is more important than making a good product while forgetting Apple doesn’t think about you AT ALL. We’ve pretty much settled on Apple owning US, Samsung mostly capturing Europe, and China controlling their own market and developing countries.

Yeah my pixel had all sorts of issues with Android 12, switched to Samsung after and it's much more stable overall.

Shouldn't they get permission first? Sounds like they're trying to skip the law and pay the fines later

Love the watch HATE, HATE, HATE the software. Garmin Connect is an asshole.

I wonder if this has something to do with Right To Repair. I read recently EU will be asking for a 10 year service life (i have no details). As a mechanical design engineer, I would love products to last 10 years and be serviceable. However, this will have huge effects on cost, device size, and more. Extra wall thicknesses, newly required connectors, little or no self adhesive gaskets or adhesives, additional seals for ingress protection due to modularity, and much more. I'm just being realistic, this is not opinion. I could easily see a company pulling out of the EU, or even the USA if all these demands are forced upon them.

I've been avoiding the 12 update for months. Glad to hear I'm not just being a grumpy old man about it.

Their camera software was worse. The actual hardware was pretty decent. I use a 7T with Google Camera Mod and it takes really nice photos. Not QUITE as good as a Pixel or iPhone, but probably 90%+ of the way there easily.

I said a similar thing when I first saw the AirPods , I have 3 generations now

I have a Fenix 5s and I really enjoy the sleep tracker. I find it quite accurate regarding fall asleep/wake up times. Then it breaks down the time further into periods of deep sleep, REM, light sleep and awake - based on your movement

Thanks for posting this. I'm a few months into my running journey and loving it. I played it safe and got a ~ $150.00 fitbit device, charge 5. It was a good enough introduction into the idea of data tracking, now I'm addicted to all the cool stuff it's been letting me do with my training. This Garmin watch seems like a huge step up. By the time my Birthday rolls around I'll have been running for 6 or so months. Seems like a nice present to myself :)