If you are on the market for a smartwatch and want one with a good battery life and actually fast charging, check out the oneplus watches. Replaced my unrepairable pixel watch 3 with the oneplus watch 3 and it’s getting around 80-90 hours of battery even with always on display, plus it charges in under an hour. Since getting it I charge it while showering only and have yet to run out of battery.
I have had a different experience and perspective; I had a fold 5 and now have a pixel 9 fold and I love it. I have bigish hands and appreciate a larger keyboard. I watch basically any content I consume via my phone and love the screen size, but I agree about the screens aspect ratio especially on the pixel. I enjoy having a bigger screen to game on and emulate non android games on. I installed moonlight and sunlight and, with the addition of a controller, can now PC game from anywhere without bringing a steamdeck or similar device, which rocks. I don’t find it heavy or cumbersome but I also wear stuff with big pockets usually and I could see it being too much for someone who doesnt. I did have ux issues with both phones on occasion but more with the fold 5; I can full screen most games on the fold and it tends to work. I also like multitasking with it by putting apps aside by side, though I’m still getting in the habit of using it.
So it’s definitely not perfect and probably not worth it for some people, especially given the price tag, but I’d say it’s been worth it for me personally. I’d love for a foldable made by a different brand (not a fan of Samsung or Google) with a better aspect ratio for viewing 16:9, qi2, better fast charging, bigger battery, and hell better custom ROM support while I’m requesting miracles haha. That said I’m hoping this tech is still relatively immature and that we’ll continue to see improvement in both hardware and resolution support and maybe I should be more cynical on that front.
I tried the XM5s and 4s and didn’t care for either of them. They wouldn’t stay in while I was moving around, relaxing, eating etc.
So I started looking at alternatives for both in and over ear pods. Settled on the OWS Pro for pods that don’t go in the ear but sit outside it and Logitech zone true wireless for in ear. The zones I got for about 200 on sale and like a lot, but the real winner has been the OWS pros which come with a 16 hour battery life which lets me wear them through the night. I liked them so much I bought a second pair for when the first are charging haha.
Tangentially related but britta filters actually suck as far as I know; they’re like the worst water filter for removing materials. Did a test myself with a fresh filter - 105 ppm tap to around 72 ppm vs 0 ppm for zero water pitchers and around 30ish for epic, it’s been a bit so the numbers are rough for the britta and epic but I test my tap and ZW pitcher routinely.