Google has big ideas for the Pixel Watch, but first, it has to care long enough to make them come true.
. Under Osterloh, the company had clearly recommitted to the idea that wearables were worth Google’s time.
The Pixel Watch’s dual-processor setup is made with health tracking in mind, too, and borrows some ideas from Fitbit. “We’ve got the main SoC that’s running Android,” says Seang Chau, a VP on the Android team, “but then we have an MCU , similar to Fitbit, that allows us to do one-second heart rate readings, all the time.” The Apple Watch measures heart rate every five minutes on average, but Fitbits — and now the Pixel Watch — do it practically continuously.
Right now, batteries and processing limitations mean there’s only so much you can do on a smartwatch. Google did a lot of work on the Samsung Exynos 9110 chip inside the Pixel Watch — there’s no Tensor chip here, at least not yet — but physics still largely dictate what a watch is capable of. That’s why it’s so important to get fitness and health right; that’s one thing smartwatches can already do well before so much else becomes possible.
Then Chau pushes the vision even farther and gives a hint at Google’s biggest ambitions for its smallest devices. What if, he says, the information your smartwatch collects could even change the way you interact with your other devices? “If you have context for what users are doing on the phone and tie that to fitness data you’re seeing on the watch, maybe you could say, ‘Oh, anytime you’re on Instagram or TikTok, your heart rate goes up, and it takes you longer to fall asleep.
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