Google Pixel Watch 4 vs. Apple Watch 10: A Clash of Modern Smartwatch Innovations
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Two schools. On the left, an Android watch that muscles its autonomy, opens with SOS by satellite and assumes AI on the wrist. On the right, the Apple Watch Series 10, finer, more readable, and above all more clinical in its health alerts.
Google Pixel Watch 4 vs Apple Watch 10 : This comparison slice on the essentials – real uses, comfort, health, ecosystems – to help you choose without noise.
Daily design and comfort
The Pixel Watch 4 refines its iconic circular drawing: “Actua 360” screen slightly curved, reduced edges by 16 %, peak brightness at 3,000 nits. Concrete translation: a slab readable in full sun and more expressive dials.
The aluminum case gains repairability (battery and replaceable screen).
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Apple responds with the finest series 10 to date, and its largest display via a new wide angle OLED, more readable even by bias. Net adjustment on the wrist.
Compatibility of old 41/45 mm bracelets with new 42/46 mm boxes.
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Screen and readability
Google Building on shine (up to 3,000 nits) and a more “living” Material 3 interface via Wear OS 6. Generous complications, haptic clearer.
Apple Privileged the surface and the angle: the wide angle screen remains contrasting with oblique. Useful in transport or sport.
Health: two philosophies
Apple Watch Series 10 Pushes the clinical pane: notifications of possible sleep apnea, integrated “training load”, water depth and temperature for swimming. Actuable data, without dramatization. Official autonomy: 6 p.m. (36 h in low consumption mode), load 0–80 % in 30 min.
Pixel Watch 4 Extends the Fitbit panoply: more precise sleep, improved skin temperature sensor, double frequency GPS for clean traces in town and under cover. Well-being coach powered by Gemini into a prevail (US first) to transform metrics into advice.
Safety and adventures
Google Strong strike: The Pixel Watch 4 LTE inaugurates the SOS Emergency by satellite, without a phone, with two years of access included in launch (areas limited at the start).
Apple Keep fall/accident detection, emergency calls, UWB to find the iPhone, but no satellite sos on the wrist on date.
Performances and autonomy
Pixel Watch 4 : Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 and Co-Puce ML Plus sober. Up to 30 h (41 mm) and 40 h (45 mm) in display still on, load 0–50 % in 15 min. Real use: full night + sports day.
Apple : “All-day Battery” from 6 pm, compensated by Express load and efficient management under Watchos 11. If sleep followed, provide a recharge on alarm clock or at the office.
Ecosystems: Choose your camp
iphone : Series 10 = deep integration iOS, fitness+, Apple Pay, location of precision, Watchos apps ecosystem. Watchos 11 requires an iPhone XS (or later) under iOS 18.
Android : Pixel Watch 4 works with Android 11+ (ideally a pixel): intelligent on-device, “raise to talk” for Gemini, Google Maps/Wallet, modernized Fitbit app. Not iPhone compatible.
Sports, urban, minimalist: for whom?
Urban runners/cyclists : Clean Double Frequency GPS at Google, very bright display, IA coaching to come. On the Apple side, sleep apnea can interest those following recovery and breathing.
Outdoor and white areas : Pixel Watch 4 LTE advantage thanks to the SOS satellite. Apple’s depth/temperature sensors are excellent for swimming/snorkeling, without replacing an out -of -network emergency link.
Long -term health users : if suspicious apnea, Series 10 relevant via dedicated notifications. Presentation of the metrics Claire.
Daily minimalists : higher autonomy and flash load at Google; Simplicity of use and iOS coherence at Apple.
Price and availability in France
Apple Watch Series 10 : from € 449, available in stores from the .
Google Pixel Watch 4 : from € 399 (41 mm Wi-Fi), up to € 549 (45 mm LTE). Pre -orders open, shop outing announced at .
Purchasing experience
Try the sizes : 42/46 mm at Apple, 41/45 mm at Google. Scroll through a page, test a light dial in the sun and an indoor dark.
Bracelets : compatibility kept at Apple. Google side, extended range this year.
Place of purchase : Apple Store / Apple.com for Series 10; Google Store for Pixel Watch 4 (Check the available and satellite SOS regions).
Nuanced verdict
Apple ecosystem and health priority : Series 10 coherent. Apnea notifications and “Training load” give useful depth.
Android (ideally pixel) and priority autonomy/security : Pixel Watch 4 more readable outside, ready for unforeseen events out of network.
Health : Sleep apnea + Training Load (Apple) vs IA well-being coach and enriched fitbit sensors (Google).
Security : SOS Satellite on Pixel Watch 4 LTE (regions limited to launch). Apple: No equivalent to the wrist on date.
Autonomy : Pixel 30–40 h and 0–50 % in 15 min; Apple ~ 6 p.m. and 0–80 % in 30 min.
Ecosystem : iPhone Only (Apple) vs Android 11+ (Google).
France Prix : Apple from € 449; Pixel from € 399 (up to € 549).
End word. Choosing a watch is choosing a daily life. Clinical precision and iPhone continuity: Series 10. Autonomy, external readability, Safety net off network: Pixel Watch 4. Try, compare, take the one that serves your life.