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Everything’s new on the outside, sure, but there’s reportedly older tech on the inside – and that really worries me
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According to the source, the system on a chip inside the Pixel Watch is the Exynos 9110. That’s the same system that was in the originalSamsung Galaxy Watch, theSamsung Galaxy Watch Active 2and theSamsung Galaxy Watch 3.
In other words,Google’s 2022 smartwatch will be running on a chip from 2018. Uh oh! That doesn’t fill me with confidence at all.
The report is surprising, because most industry watchers thought Google would be using the same chipset as theSamsung Galaxy Watch 4, the Exynos W920. That’s a 5nm processor with Cortex-A55 cores, but the one Google is apparently going with is a 10nm processor with Cortex-A53s. According toSamsung, the newer system on a chip delivers 20% better performance and ten times the graphic performance of its predecessor.
So why is Google using such an old chip, and should we care?
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(Image credit: Google)
Pixel Watch: on, off and on again
The most likely explanation is that the Pixel Watch has been in development for ages, and in the early stages the Exynos 9110 was the state of the smartwatch art. The Pixel Watch project was cancelled, and when it was finally resurrected the processor didn’t change. Maybe the design was too advanced for Google to start again with the newer processors introduced during the Pixel Watch’s time in limbo. Or maybe the ongoing chip shortage meant that Samsung can’t supply enough of them. Either way, Google is stuck with a chip that was cutting edge four years ago but considerably less cutting now.
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It feels a bit like history is repeating here: as great as the Pixel phones are, devices such as theGoogle Pixel 6andGoogle Pixel 6 Proare four-star phones when the equivalent Samsungs are five – so for example while theGoogle Pixel6 Pro is the best Pixel phone ever, it’s not thebest Android phone. That’s theSamsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. It seems like Google is setting out to make a good smartwatch in a market where Samsung makes great ones – and the Galaxy Watch 5 is already galloping over the horizon.
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