As you may know, the Pixel Watch is on its way. Long the brainchild of tech enthusiasts, this year is indeed real – Google itself has confirmed this, seemingly unable to keep it a secret even though the launch will only happen “this fall,” which likely translates to October.
So, we have a few months of Pixel Watch leaks ahead of us, and the last one about a week ago told us that the wearable device would use Samsung’s Exynos 9110 chipset. That’s a bit of a concern since the SoC came out in 2018 and is based on a 10nm process.
Today, a new source seems to corroborate the above information, adding a twist: apparently the Pixel Watch will actually use the Exynos 9110, but it will also have a co-processor on board. This reminds us of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 4100+ SoC which has a primary CPU and ultra-low-power secondary coprocessor that powers the always-on display and a few sensors.
This allows for better battery life as the primary CPU is only used when you are actively busy with your device and also downloads some lighter workflows from said primary CPU so that it performs a little better when you need it. Does the same go for Pixel Watch? There is no way to say this with just the mere mention of a co-processor, we would need more details, but we will definitely get them in the weeks and months ahead, don’t worry.
Going forward, the Pixel Watch is also said to “slightly exceed” the Galaxy Watch4’s 1.5GB of RAM, whatever that means. 1.55 GB 2 GB? Your guess is as good as ours, but it seems pretty clear that the Pixel Watch won’t be short of memory. Plus, you’ll get 32GB of storage, double that of any other Wear OS device available right now.
The sensors on the back of the wearable device are visibly identical to the sensor array used in the Fitbit Luxe and Fitbit Charge 5. The hardware in question supports heart rate, SpO2 (blood oxygen) and ECG monitoring and, since Google owns Fitbit , reusing sensors like this makes perfect sense.
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