For years we have been talking about a Google smartwatch: but in the last 12 months, and just starting from last April with the first renders, the rumors have begun to intensify. Until, in recent weeks, the traces of an imminent launch have not increased dramatically between clues on the Google Store and sightings.
Everyone, however, has always called it Pixel Watch: a natural name for a Mountain View product that wants to be symbiotic with respect to the pixel smartphone experience. However, until the announcement we will not have the definitive confirmation that it will be precisely Pixel Watch and not, for example, Google Watch. Although in this sense we now get an important confirmation from the USPTO, the US patent office that has accepted the application for registration of the trademark “Pixel Watch” on behalf of Google.
In reality, not even this data constitutes a definitive confirmation for the name “Pixel Watch”: in Mountain View, in fact, they may have decided to secure the trademark even just to obstruct any competitors, all always and in any case in view of the imminent launch of a Google smartwatch – a fact on which doubts are now really at a minimum.
OK GOOGLE, BUT WHEN DOES PIXEL WATCH ARRIVE?
The launch should not miss much: it is natural to imagine that the Google I/O 2022, set for 11 and 12 May, could be the right opportunity to finally remove the veil on Pixel Watch. The latest rumors in this sense, however, are not encouraging: at the beginning of March there was talk of a possible postponement linked to the chip crisis that still has an important weight on the entire tech market. Pixel Watch should therefore arrive on the market in October, but it seems that Google still intends to show it in May, well in advance of the actual commercialization.
In all this then there is no need to underestimate – and those who have had to deal with Wear OS in recent years know it well – the software issue. For too long the Google Assistant on smartwatches is completely broken, and in the only version of Wear OS 3 currently on the market (ie the exclusive one of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic) it is absent altogether, not to disfigure. It is therefore reasonable to expect that big G has an interest in launching its smartwatch only with a Google Assistant finally working, and considering all the difficulties it has encountered over time on this front it is not said that things are so simple.
And there are those who have thought of abandoning a prototype of Pixel Watch at the restaurant … Maximum confidentiality on where it was found – it is known that it is in the United States – but those who sent the photos to Android Central preferred to remain anonymous. Here are the first live images of the smartwatch, a non-working prototype – the screen turns on but remains on the G – and equipped with a proprietary strap. The edges are very curved, apparently, and there is a crown to navigate within the interface.
