Samsung’s New Wear OS Smartwatch Just Leaked

Rumors are swirling round Samsung’s next-gen smartwatches, however to date, they’ve targeted totally on whether or not Samsung would really swap to Wear OS. Now that it’s been confirmed that the corporate is becoming a member of forces with Google, we’re ready to see what that new watch will appear like. Leaked renders of the Galaxy Watch Active 4 give us some clues.

The renders come courtesy of leakers @OnLeaks and GizNext (no relation to Gizmodo). At a look, they don’t stray from the Watch Active line’s normal aesthetic, however there are some slight adjustments. The lugs look barely longer, there’s no extra hole between the strap and the case, and the button shapes are additionally slimmer. According to GizNext, the watch will be made out of aluminum, are available 40mm and 44mm case sizes, and might be powered by a brand new 5nm processor. The renders present black, silver, inexperienced, and gold choices—although the leakers observe that these shades would possibly look completely different from the precise product. SamMobile claims that not solely will the gold shade hew nearer to rose gold, however there’ll even be a white choice as properly.

What the renders don’t present is a bodily rotating bezel, however followers of Samsung’s most iconic smartwatch characteristic shouldn’t fear simply but. While the unique Watch Active omitted the characteristic totally, it got here again on the Active 2—albeit as a touchscreen bezel.

The watch appears to be like smooth as hell, however honestly, renders received’t reply an important questions on everybody’s minds. How will the brand new unified Tizen-Wear OS platform work, and what points of Tizen OS will stay? Last month at Google I/O, Samsung and Google each put the rumor mill to relaxation by confirming that they had been certainly partnering on a brand new working system known as Wear. So far, we all know the brand new Wear platform guarantees higher battery life, a sturdy third-party app ecosystem, and quicker efficiency. (Given that the Active 4 is meant to have a 5nm SoC, that’s inside the realm of chance.) Not a lot was confirmed past that, so after all, all eyes might be on the Galaxy Watch Active 4 as an early indicator of how properly Wear lives as much as these guarantees.

We in all probability received’t have to attend too lengthy to see what this courageous new post-Tizen world would possibly appear like. Samsung is anticipated to announce the Active 4 on June 28 at Mobile World Congress throughout an occasion titled “Galaxy Ecosystem/New Watch Experience/Mobile Security.” While we don’t know the specifics, “Galaxy Ecosystem” and “New Watch Experience” don’t precisely go away a lot as much as the creativeness.

Less clear is once we’ll see the rumored flagship Galaxy Watch 4. Our greatest guess is someday in August. That’s usually when Samsung holds its fall product launch occasions, and the timing aligns with when Samsung introduced the Galaxy Watch 3 final yr.