Soon a Google Pixel watch?

Google Watch. © Google, via 91mobiles.com.

Though Google has offered a smartwatch version of Android these past eight years, the company never ventured to make a Wear OS watch per se. Other manufacturers, many of them watchmakers, jumped on the wagon so that you can now find watches by TAG Heuer, Hublot, Fossil, Citizen, etc., powered by Google’s Wear OS. These past few months, however, rumors have circulated about a Google watch likely to be named Pixel Watch, with an imminent release date. Wednesday, Evan Blass published on the 91mobiles website a picture of the watch that Google’s marketing leaked. What’s more, the 9to5Google website spotted the sudden appearance of a “watches” category on the Google Store. It’s not unthinkable that we could soon hear talk of this watch at the Google I/O 2022 conference taking place on May 11.

No other details have come to light other than its code name Rohan and that it’s shipping with a new version of Wear OS. And there’s absolutely no mention of its SoC. Leaked images show an elegant, round clock face that sets it apart from the Apple Watch, but without a bezel, just like the Apple Watch. More will be revealed in twenty days’ time.

⇨ Ars Technica, Ron Amadeo, “Google Pixel Watch leak shows off round, all-glass design.”

2022-04-20