Google code confirms the rumours: a Pixel Watch 2 is coming, and could arrive alongside the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro
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Google’sPixel Watchhas been a well-deserved hit, shifting nearly 1 million units in Q4 2022. So it was never in doubt that there would be aPixel Watch 2, and details of that wearable are starting to leak. If the Pixel Watch is one of the best smartwatches you can buy, the Pixel Watch 2 could be better still.
So what’s Google cooking? The latest news comes courtesy of the eagle-eyedAPK Insight, who love nothing better than pulling apart apps' code and poking around the entrails to predict the future. And in the latest beta of the Google Search app they’ve found new assets relating to the Pixel 2, which appears to be codenamed Eos. There’s a second, similar asset called Aurora, and that’s likely to be a sibling smartwatch rather than an additional new product.
So far the app uses the same animations it did for the current Pixel Watch, suggesting that Eos and Aurora really are the Pixel 2.
APK Insight have confirmed the Pixel Watch 2’s existence. What about the specs?
What do we know about the Pixel Watch 2 specifications?
One of the biggest rumoured changes is in battery life, which is apparently more than a day with the always-on display enabled. The current model can make it through a day, but only just.
Last but not least it’s also been rumoured that the Pixel Watch 2 will have similar health sensors to the Google-ownedFitbit Sense 2such as skin temperature and electrodermal activity sensors.
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