According to the information now revealed, Google is working on a smartwatch that aims to compete directly with the Apple model.
Google wants to launch the device from 2022 and can give it a different name than the Pixel Watch.
What do we know about the Google smartwatch?
According to information released by the British media Business Insider, Google is currently working on a new smartwatch, which is expected to be launched next year.
According to the same source, it is the Pixel series team that is working on the project and not Fitbit, a company that the search engine giant acquired earlier this year for $ 2.1 billion.
Although it has designed an operating system for wearables (WearOS), so far Google has not designed any smartwatch, and that is why the now advanced information is so relevant.
The watch, which for now is codenamed Rohan, despite being worked on by the team that designed the Pixel, may not be called the Pixel Watch; however, this information is not confirmed.
In turn, the British media organization The Verge claims that the device should cost more than any Fitbit model and that it aims to compete directly with Apple’s smartwatch.
As for the specs, little information was revealed. For now, the smartwatch is only known to have basic fitness tracking features, including a step counter and a heart rate monitor.
WearOS 3 with custom version on Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
Managed by Galaxy Watch 4 (pictured)
Google recently introduced WearOS 3, the smartwatch operating system that it developed in partnership with Samsung. By the way, so far only the South Korean giant’s Galaxy Watch 4 runs this operating system.
In fact, the two companies managed to merge the Tizen platform with the Google platform on this operating system. Proof of this is that the Galaxy Watch 4 runs a fairly personalized version of WearOS 3, even distancing users from Google services and applications, and directing them to the same options that Samsung offers.
Google might have already released a smartwatch, but backtracked
According to previous news, Google may have already launched its smartwatch on the market. This is because the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style should have been marketed under the research giant’s label.
But, according to an internal Google source, the company’s hardware manager, Rick Osterloh, rejected the idea, since the models did not meet the necessary requirements to belong to the Pixel “family”.
But now, apparently, Google will even move into the smartwatch market with a model of its own, and this is a project that has been going on for some time.
Recall that earlier this year, just as Google acquired Fitbit, Google’s hardware manager Rick Osterloh assured us that we would see the team working on WearOS equipment in the future. And apparently the future was already happening.