I ran with the Apple Watch 9 and Google Pixel Watch 2 — and the results surprised me

[admin]

Our fitness editor went for a run with the Apple Watch 9 and Google Pixel Watch 2 — here's the difference in the data the two watches recorded

I ran with the Apple Watch 9 and Google Pixel Watch 2 — and the results surprised me : Read more

 

[RemoW]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the huge difference in calorie burn estimates. I have a pixel watch and it's calorie counting is just ridiculous. If I walk the same route that I usually run it says I've burned about 3x as many calories. If I use the elliptical trainer on super high resistance or low resistance it makes no difference to calories even though my heart rate shows I'm doing more work.

 

[U4EA]

It is interesting that the author states the difference between the distances is not noteworthy but the difference in pace is significant without realizing the pace is just a function of time divided by distance which both have calculated properly based on reported distance - similar for the calorie estimate but this is a bit more complex. To evaluate, there are much better ways including repeated runs to build on error that will be present with any measuring device - sometimes higher sometimes lower. Diving into the pace and heart rate training functionality could have been nice, there is so much to talk about.