It looks like Google’s upcoming Pixel Watch will be a leader, competing with Samsung’s latest Galaxy watches and Apple Watch, according to new specifications leaked by 9to5Google. According to the 9to5 report, you will be able to get a cellular version of the wearable device and there will be a battery of 300 milliamperes (mAh).
It was not necessarily a given that there would be a cellular option for the Pixel Watch. Some lower-end smartwatches and even some high-end fitness-focused models rely on your phone for connectivity. If the rumor is accurate and there is a cellular model Pixel Watch, this reinforces the idea that Google is probably not trying to make its watch a smaller or cheaper alternative – it wants this appeal in the mass market.
As for the battery, its physical capacity seems appropriate for how big the watch is. However, it is almost impossible to say what this milliampere hour estimate means for how long it will last between charges.
When The Verge reviewer Dan Seifert compared the Apple Watch Series 7 41 mm and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 42 mm, he found that they had dramatically different levels of durability. One day the Galaxy Watch was over, while the Apple Watch was at 52 percent (although the next day it managed to extract a few more hours from the Galaxy after some changes). Still, the Apple Watch’s battery isn’t that big; it has a capacity of 284mAh, while the Galaxy’s battery is rated at 247mAh.
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Galaxy Watch 4: 0% dead and off
Apple Watch Series 7: 52%
– Dan S. (@dcseifert) April 7, 2022
What really matters when it comes to the life of a wearable battery are its features and processor. Both are unknown at this time for the Pixel Watch, although in terms of features there will obviously be no e-paper display that allows Pebble Time to use more than a week of its 250mAh battery.
The big, still unanswered question is which chip will Google use – Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 or 4100 Plus, which do not appear in many watches, although they have existed for some time? Qualcomm’s next-generation chip not currently announced? Exynos chips from Samsung that you use in your own watches? Custom tensor processor like Google uses in Pixel 6? There are so many options – some of which are unknown and others that would be a bad sign for battery life.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long to figure out the answer – rumors say that Google may announce the Pixel Watch at its I / O conference, which starts just a few weeks later on May 11. If you want to look at its hardware before, you’re still lucky – someone posted many photos of it on and off the wrist, claiming that a friend found the device lying around in a bar, iPhone 4 – style. Maybe Sundar Pichai will make the same joke as Steve Jobs when he announced Pixel Watch, saying “stop me if you’ve seen this before.”
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