I‘m eagerly awaiting delivery on a new Pixel 9 Pro Fold next week and would like to pair it with a Wear OS smartwatch. Bit of background/requirements:
I’m a longtime Apple Watch user, currently using Apple Watch Ultra 2 and love just about everything about it. I consider myself a smart watch power user and use my AWU2 for just about everything. I do all of the following and I will use it often without my phone nearby (must be able to add a cellular connection).
- Listen to music, both via streaming or offline (use Apple Music but can also use YouTube Music)
- Audiobooks via Audible (can listen offline with downloaded content, no phone required)
- Podcasts via Pocket Casts (must be able to download for offline listening)
- Navigation via Apple Maps—assuming I can do the same with Google Maps
- Login Authentication via Authy
- Shopping Lists via AnyList
- Carrot Weather
- Fitbod and Athlytic
- Workouts tracking via Fitbod, Apple Fitness+ and t
I also subscribe to Apple’s Fitness+ and understand this won’t be available. I also use Apple Health as a repository for all of my health and fitness data and prefer to utilize Google’s equivalent. I don’t want to rely on the Samsung ‘ecosystem’ for any of the health management not for other software if possible.
I’m not generally a fan of Samsung’s smartphone products nor their version of Android but the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra appears to be the obvious Android analogue to the AWU2. That being said, I also have a $350 credit in the Google Store that I could put towards the new, larger Pixel Watch. Just trying to figure out if there are any software compromises on either device because if it was just about the hardware, I’ll leaning very strongly toward the Galaxy Watch Ultra.
Any advice is appeciated.
