The Pixel Watch 2 could get multi-day battery life and a UWB chip

The brand new leak says the rumored Pixel Watch successor will use the extra environment friendly 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 Plus chip, backing up earlier stories.

The brand new chip might considerably enhance its efficiency and probably convey multi-day battery life to the platform. The primary Pixel Watch used a a lot slower 10nm Exynos 9110, which obtained as much as, at most, 15 hours of battery life in The Verge’s Victoria Track’s evaluate final 12 months.

Apple makes use of UWB to allow precision-finding of its AirTags and latest AirPods Professional, as does Samsung for its Galaxy tags and Buds2 Professional, whereas Google’s Pixel lineup has already included UWB chips within the Professional editions of the Pixel 6 and seven smartphones, in addition to the Pixel Fold and Pixel Pill.

If the Pixel Watch 2 positive factors UWB assist, then Google’s watch wouldn’t simply be extra simply positioned within the firm’s Discover My Gadget community however may very well be the primary Android smartwatch to get the wi-fi know-how. That might allow different comfort options like unlocking your automobile together with your watch, although given how little Apple has executed with the U1 chip within the Apple Watch, it’s necessary to maintain expectations low for now.

The watch’s battery capability can even be elevated from 294mAh within the first Pixel Watch to 306mAh, in keeping with Wojciechowska, which must also modestly enhance battery life by itself. Wojciechowska additionally writes that the watch will assist “seamless updates,” presumably referring to the Android replace course of that purports to hurry up the method of updating a tool by partitioning the replace and solely making use of it after a restart.