Looks like, finally, Google is manufacturing your own smartwatch to launch in 2022, according to a new report from insider.
Although it has made its own smartphones with the Pixel series for years, the company has never designed its own watch.
The watch is being developed by the team responsible for the Pixel hardware, Outside of Fitbit, the company Google bought for $2.1 billion earlier this year.
According to the Insider report, Google’s new watch – it’s not clear whether Google will actually call it a “Pixel Watch” – will be an example to consumers and hardware manufacturers of what Google’s software is really capable of. offer when it equips you with the right hardware.
The device is expected to cost more than a Fitbit watch and will compete directly with the Apple Watch-
The watch will have basic functions of physical activity tracking, including step counting and a heart rate monitor, And Google is also working on an integration of Fitbit with Wear OS.
Google is in the middle of the latest reinventing your smartwatch platform with Wear OS 3. Unlike previous versions of Wear OS (or Android Wear), Wear OS 3 was developed in collaboration with Samsung, merging the Tizen platform with Google’s.
So far, Wear OS 3 has only been released on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4, which runs a highly customized version of the operating system that bypasses most of Google’s services and apps in favor of Samsung’s own.
Samsung Galaxy Watch4
Google has come close to having a “Pixel Watch” in the past, according to a 2019 report. The LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style, released in 2017, were originally supposed to be marketed as part of the Pixel brand, but the head of the Google hardware Rick Osterloh gave up on the idea because “They didn’t seem to be part of the Pixel family.”
