Will this be another year of disappointment for Pixel fans?
The smartwatch business remains robust with Q1 shipments up 12% year-over-year, and Google might desire a seat at the bar. There are a few million Pixel users who would love to purchase a Pixel Watch and you just know that Google will add some features that only Pixel owners will have access to. Apple and Samsung have a head start but if the purchase of Fitbit is completed, that would give Google plenty of experience and make it a credible player in the game.
According to Qualcomm, the 12nm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ will deliver 85% faster performance than the Snapdragon Wear 3100. It will be equipped with four Cortex-A53 CPU cores, the Adreno 504 GPU, faster LPDDR3 RAM memory, and dual Image Signal Processing that supports 16-megapixel cameras. One of the first smartwatches to have the Snapdragon Wear 4100 inside will be the next-gen TicWatch Pro.
In 2018 and 2019, things lined up for the introduction of a Google Pixel Watch. But as we saw both times, Google failed to deliver the goods. Something like that just might happen again this year even though, as usual, there are signs that the mythical Pixel Watch lives.