Google has almost completed the work on its in-house smartwatch, which will be launched in 2022. According to a new report from the media, work is still going on on the Pixel Watch code-named Rohan. While Google worked on its own smartphone for years under the Pixel line, the company has never designed its own smartwatch. The watch, codenamed ‘Rohan’, is being worked on by Google’s Pixel hardware group separately from Fitbit. Let us tell you that earlier this year Google bought Fitbit for $ 2.1 billion.
As per an Insider report, it is not yet clear whether Google will actually call it the ‘Pixel Watch’ for the new upcoming Google Watch. According to a source, the device is expected to cost more than Fitbit. It is being said that this watch can compete with Apple Smartwatch.
How can the specification be
The watch will have basic fitness tracking features including step counting and a heart rate monitor. Google is also reportedly working on launching Fitbit integration into Wear OS (codenamed ‘Nightlight’) with the new watch. Google is currently in the midst of the latest reinvention of its smartwatch platform with Wear OS 3. Unlike earlier versions of Wear OS (or Android Wear), in which the Tizen platform was merged with Google.
But so far, Wear OS 3 has only been launched on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4, which runs a heavily customized version of the new operating system that leaves most of Google’s services and apps for Samsung.
Google was earlier hoping that it would unveil its first smartwatch with the Pixel 6 but due to the delay in the launch, it had to take this decision. Let us tell you that the tech giant has started rolling out the camera app version 8.4 that too for the old Pixel phones. Let us tell you that it also includes camera features from Pixel 6 and 6 Pro.
