Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is promising — but it isn’t finished

The Google Pixel Watch 5 has, in many ways, been the hardest Pixel Watch to accurately review. Barely anything has changed in terms of hardware. The sizes are the same, the chips and battery got an itty-bitty boost, and there’s a new pyrite satin case finish. Instead, the big updates are all software-related: This year’s watch gets ambitious new health features that expand on the overhauled Google Health app and its AI coach introduced with the Fitbit Air earlier this year. The only problem is those health updates aren’t here. The watch’s most interesting new features — blood pressure and insulin resistance trends, nightly sleep breathing quality, and strength training cues from the wrist — won’t start rolling out until next month. And in the case of breathing emergency detection, which calls emergency services if the device detects you’ve stopped breathing, the feature is still pending FDA clearance. (Europe will get it at launch, but this isn’t the sort of feature you can test anyway.) That leaves me and the Pixel Watch 5 on my wrist in a bit of a reviewer’s…