PIXEL WATCH. According to several leaks, Google is preparing its first home connected watch. Called “Pixel Watch”, find all the first information about it.
Pixel Watch, Google Pixel Watch … It is currently difficult to know the real name of the future connected watch that will be launched by the Mountain View company, or even if the latter will see the light of day. Several online reports, however, already mention a connected watch in preparation at Google. Can the latter compete with the famous Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch? Discover all the first information available.
What will be the characteristics of the Pixel Watch?
Let’s start with its name: if we call it Pixel Watch right now, there is absolutely nothing official about it. The name “Pixel Watch” would make sense to stick to the range of Google Pixel smartphones whose success is no longer to be proven. It would be logical for the firm to continue this momentum and launch a watch whose name would immediately suggest use with a Google Pixel.
Several online leaks already mention a Pixel Watch. The specialist leaker Jon Prosser was already talking about it several months ago, presenting some characteristics, and even exclusive first images based on information already known on the web.
Regarding its operating system, the Pixel Watch would obviously have Wear OS. This OS, created by Google, already equips many connected watches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch or some Fossil. The Pixel Watch could then constitute a real device connected to your wrist, for which Google would provide both the hardware and software.
Leaks already available on the Pixel Watch do not yet mention which apps are available. The connected watch from Google will not however ignore the heart sensor and the pedometer function. Health is one of the most highlighted aspects in connected watches in recent years, and Apple has even made it one of its main marketing arguments for its latest Series 7. Several sources from The Verge site even claim that the Pixel Watch would mainly try to compete with the latter.
What is the release date for the Pixel Watch?
Long awaited alongside the latest Google Pixel 6, the Pixel Watch will not have finally come out in 2021. Many fans of the firm believe that the recent takeover of FitBit by Google would be the occasion for it. company to unveil its own connected watch. Google, however, seems to want to assert itself and continue to bet on its “Pixel” brand in order to offer new products, while the FitBits will continue to benefit from the Wear OS environment.
Several specialist leakers were already talking about a release in 2022 for the Pixel Watch. No events or conferences seem to be planned for the coming weeks, so it makes sense to believe this rumor. However, it would not be impossible for Google to keep this announcement for its next “Google I / O” conference, which will traditionally be held in May.
What price for the Pixel Watch?
It is still early to decide on the price of the Pixel Watch. According to the first information available by The Verge and the leaker Jon Prosser, the Pixel Watch would come to be placed as a competitor to the Apple Watch currently available. This would mean that the connected watch from Google to market around 400 euros.