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Every feature Wear OS watches should borrow from Garmin

Beyond the obvious fitness upsides, Garmin watches have mapping tools and battery life perks that Pixel and Galaxy Watches could learn from.

As a side note, once Wear OS supports proper courses, it should also add the equivalent of Garmin's ClimbPro widget for runners and cyclists, showing the grade, distance, and total number of climbs left for a hard trail. Garmin's focus is laudable and rare; most other brands, including the Wear OS ones, have either perfunctory or nonexistent modes for wheelchair-bound folks and will happily encourage everyone to stand up and move when some users can't. Even at low battery, the Fenix 8 still has five days left (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)These watches use basic, low-powered chips that can't handle speedy apps; Wear OS is too demanding to last long at full power, especially if it starts adding Gemini tricks.

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