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Dan Bracaglia

Apple Watch Ultra 3 vs Pixel Watch 4 XL — I walked 6,000 steps, and the winner is clear

Close-up of the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Google Pixel Watch 4 in a user's hand against a colorful out-of-focus background.

Apple versus Google: Which brand makes the better smartwatch for tracking fitness? To find out, I strapped the best smartwatch model from each to opposite wrists and embarked on a 6,000-step walk around my neighborhood.

As a control for step count data — the primary metric we'll use to determine our fitness tracking accuracy champion — I manually counted my paces; a click of my trusty, old-school tally counter marked every hundred taken.

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