Pixel Watch is official: Google’s first smartwatch!

After tons of leaks and teases, Google has finally announced the Pixel Watch. The company’s first smartwatch, built in partnership with the experts of Fitbit, since… well the search giant kind of acquired Fitbit for this project.

Design

The Google Pixel Watch has a beautiful, spherical design — Google says, it’s inspired by a water droplet. The top is covered by a continuous, curved slab of Gorilla Glass 5, which seamlessly fuses with a scainless steel body.

There’s a rotating crown on the side of the case, allowing for easier navigation of the Wear OS UI without having to constantly touch the screen. The Pixel Watch comes in three main colors — black, gold, and silver —, and a plethora of watchbands available right now from Google.

The mechanism to attach different bands is quite cool and quirky — it’s a rotating action, and the band locks deep into the Watch’s case, for a very secure fit. It also means it will be tougher to find 3rd party bands at first, but they may become more prevalent, depending on how popular the Pixel Watch gets to be.

Software and features

The Pixel Watch comes with Wear OS — the latest platform, developed in partnership between Google and Samsung. It’s chock-full of features like heart rate tracking, detailed sleep tracking, ECG, and crash detection. Fall detection will also be coming to the Pixel Watch some time in 2023.

Of course, it’s loaded with Google Assistant on board — the impressive AI is better than ever at understanding speech and following commands, so you will be able to do a lot of things, straight from the Pixel Watch, without having to actually touch it.

Price and release