‘Pixel Watch offers mobile connectivity and a 300mAh battery’
Due to all the rumors, we can already puzzle together an entire Google Pixel Watch, where the number of ‘missing pieces’ is small. Now it turns out that the Pixel Watch has cellular connectivity and a 300mAh battery.
Pixel Watch
Speaking to 9to5Google, sources say the new Wear OS device has the ability to connect to a cellular network. This could mean that, for example, you can also receive and answer telephone calls, or at least use the internet, without your telephone being nearby.
The battery would be about 300mAh, which is somewhere close to the Galaxy Watch 4 from Samsung. Although it only has a battery of 247 mAh, you can determine from this how long the battery life can be. That of Galaxy Watch 4 is estimated at about 40 hours. This watch also runs on Wear OS 3, so the Pixel Watch’s battery life is likely to be just over 40 hours, meaning you’ll probably need to charge it every few days. Of course it’s guesswork: who knows what tricks Google has to extend the life of Wear OS?
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Similarities with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
A puzzle piece that we don’t have yet is the question of how fast the device charges. Will you soon be able to measure your sleep only 3 or 4 nights a week, because it is in the charger the other nights? It probably won’t run that fast, but with a wearable it is actually quite annoying to have to charge it often. After all, you have to put it on and take it off again and again.
The Pixel Watch is believed to have a Samsung Exynos chip. Again, a comparison can be made here with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4: it is about the same size in terms of screen, so a W920 chip, for example, would fit in just right. If you want a preview of what Pixel Watch will probably be like, you can read our Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 review. We wrote earlier that the device probably has a lot in common with Samsung’s gadget.
What do you hope? Would you like a Pixel Watch that takes the goodness of a Galaxy Watch 4, or should Google choose its own path a little more? Leave it now in the comments.
