Google Reveals Software Support Details for Its Pixel Watch

Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro smartphones will go on sale in India on 12 October. The pre-order window is already open and Pixel Buds Pro additionally went on sale again in July. With the ecosystem nearly full, there are nonetheless no particulars in regards to the Pixel Watch coming to India. But a brand new assist doc offers us extra info concerning software program assist for Google’s first smartwatch. And by the seems to be of it, the search large appears to be giving its first smartwatch the same remedy as its Pixel smartphones.

The support document exhibits how Google takes the Pixel smartphone strategy to software program updates for its Pixel Watch. The brief doc first noticed by 9to5Google mentions that its Pixel Watch will obtain Wear OS software program updates that embrace safety enhancements, new options, working methods updates, and the same old bug fixes. It additionally mentions that these updates will probably be “common’ with out stating what number of will arrive. There’s no point out of a timeline both.

Google does make it clear that Pixel Watch house owners will obtain updates for at the very least three years, from the time it first turns into accessible on the Google Store within the US. The software program replace technique is similar to the remedy its Pixel 6a smartphone has acquired in India, which incorporates safety updates. But Google has specified that it could additionally embrace function drops and different software program updates, that means that customers can count on new options displaying up on their Pixel Watch similar to the quarterly function drops that present up on Pixel smartphones.

Google ensures software program updates for its Pixel Watch till October 2025, so these occupied with buying one need not fear about software program updates for the subsequent three years. Apple by no means explicitly mentions software program assist for its Apple Watch fashions, however its Series 3 (now discontinued) did obtain as much as 5 years of software program updates till watchOS 8.7.1.

The Pixel Watch, in contrast to Google’s current Pixel smartphones, doesn’t use a custom-designed Tensor processor, however goes with Samsung’s Exynos 9110 SoC that is paired with a Cortex M33 coprocessor and has 2GB of RAM. It has a heart-rate sensor, gives ECG monitoring and has well being and health options by Fitbit. The system is priced at $349.99 (roughly Rs. 28,700) for the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-only mannequin, whereas the LTE mannequin together with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will value $399.99 (roughly Rs. 32,800). It will probably be accessible within the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and Taiwan from 13 October.