It is appropriate to turn back the hands of the clock. It’s true: Google last week, during IO/2022, removed the veil on its first smartwatch, the Pixel Watch. But the launch (scheduled for the fall) is quite far away, and the details shared by the company at the moment are few: we have to settle for some rendering.
As always, in the empty space left by the official news, rumors are accommodated: and therefore, despite the officiality, the period of rumors returns. Today’s rumor comes once again from 9to5Google: last Saturday there was talk of the hypothesis of an old processor (Samsung’s Exynos 9110), and now the thread of that speech is resumed but with the addition of another news.
OLD CHIP, ANOTHER CONFIRMATION
According to what 9to5Google reports, in fact, it has also come from a second source informed on the subject the confirmation of the fact that it will be the Exynos 9110, released in 2018 with the original Samsung Galaxy Watch, the processor that will move Pixel Watch. A fact that, if confirmed, would not be really exciting for a product that conceptually seems to want to establish itself as the Apple Watch of the Android landscape.
At this turn, however, to sweeten the pill there are other details. First of all, it seems there will be a coprocessor alongside the Exynos 9110 to relieve the CPU from the management of various activities such as continuous heart rate monitoring, sleep, step counting, timer and so on.
GENEROUS RAM AND SENSORS
In addition, it seems that to compensate for the lackluster performance of the chip Google will flank it with the highest amount of RAM ever seen on a Wear OS device: it should be a figure slightly higher than the 1.5 GB seen on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic. And over time we’ve realized that generous RAM makes it easier for Wear OS to react.
And that’s not all because 9to5Google also anticipates other details of the Pixel Watch, starting with the internal memory it will be equipped with, namely 32 GB. Also in this case it is a high figure in reference to the current market (which stands at around 16 GB). Finally, the latest blows concern the sensors: Pixel Watch should mount on board the same sensors seen on FitBit Luxe and Charge 5, or one for the heart rate with support for reading the level of oxygenation of the blood (SpO2) and another dedicated to the electrocardiogram (ECG).
