Best Buy Cuts 45mm Pixel Watch 4 to $271.99 as Google Nears August Launch

Q: Is saving $128 on a Pixel Watch 4 smart when the Watch 5 promises to fix its biggest flaws?

Yes—if you need a smartwatch now and can live with daily charging, the $128 discount on the Pixel Watch 4 is a sensible buy. If battery life is your top concern, waiting for the Pixel Watch 5 is the smarter move. At $271.99 for an “excellent” open-box 45mm model, the Pixel Watch 4 is well below its usual $400 price and cheaper than recent Amazon and Prime Day pricing. That matters because the Watch 5 is widely expected to launch at a higher price, with reports pointing to a $30 to $50 increase over current Pixel Watch pricing. The Pixel Watch 4 is not outdated. It remains one of the stronger Android smartwatches, with a bright AMOLED display, strong Fitbit and Google Health integration, dual-frequency GPS, fast charging, and advanced safety features including loss-of-pulse detection and fall detection. For runners and general Android users, it is still a capable device. The hesitation is battery life and durability. The Watch 4 typically lasts about a day with always-on display, and its screen has drawn criticism for scratching too easily. Those are exactly the areas the Pixel Watch 5 is expected to improve, with rumors of a custom Tensor wearable chip for better efficiency, thinner bezels, a new charging system, and possibly blood pressure monitoring. So the trade-off is clear: save real money now on a proven watch, or pay more and wait until after Google’s August event—and likely until October availability—for a model that may fix the current one’s biggest weaknesses.

Q: Beyond the sale price, what key Pixel Watch health features require a paid Google subscription?

The main Pixel Watch health features locked behind a paid Google subscription are the advanced coaching and deeper analytics in Google Health Premium, rather than the watch’s basic tracking tools. According to the provided material, Google Health Premium costs $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year and is required for the Gemini-powered Google Health Coach. That includes personalized fitness, sleep and wellness guidance, the “Ask Coach” feature, proactive insights that connect sleep, activity, nutrition, cycle tracking and medical records, and summaries of personal health records. The subscription also covers adaptive fitness plans, including tailored workout suggestions, custom workout creation through natural-language prompts, and step-by-step guided workouts. It adds more detailed sleep insights beyond standard sleep tracking, along with access to an on-demand workout library. Premium also expands cycle tracking, nutrition and mental wellbeing tools with coach-driven recommendations, and supports multimodal logging such as using voice, photos or documents to record and interpret health-related information. By contrast, the core Pixel Watch health features remain available without the paid plan. Those free features include standard activity tracking, sleep tracking, heart-rate monitoring, HRV, SpO2, and general wellness logging.

3 articles · Updated · 9to5Toys · Jul 8

$271.99 gets buyers an “excellent” open-box 45mm Pixel Watch 4 at Best Buy, a $128 discount from the $400 list price for the current-generation Google smartwatch.
Best Buy says the Moonstone model works and looks like new, includes all parts and accessories, and may ship in varied or missing packaging.
The deal undercuts recent new-condition pricing: the 45mm Moonstone never fell below $320, while the black 45mm model bottomed at $305 during Amazon’s Prime Day sale last month.
Google has already set its next Pixel hardware event for mid-August, making the discount a clearance-style option for shoppers unwilling to pay full price for the incoming Pixel Watch 5.