Google launched its first ever smartwatch last October. However, the major downfall of the smartwatch was its processor. It used a very old Exynos 9110 processor, which debuted with the first Samsung Galaxy watch. Now that seems to be changing for good. The second-generation Pixel Watch will welcome Snapdragon's latest wearable chipset. More on this below.
Pixel Watch 2: Long Term Review! – What has changed?
According to an exclusive scoop via 9To5Google, the second-generation Pixel Watch will be powered by the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 chipset. This inclusion can eliminate all the shortcomings that the Pixel Watch was mocked.
The W5+ Gen 1 is manufactured using a 4nm process compared to the 10nm process of the Exynos 9110. It also offers four A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz with dual Adreno 702 GPUs (1GHz), compared to the two Cortex-A53 cores in the Exynos chipset. It was also expected to come with the Exynos W920 or W980, but it seems that won't be the case.
The biggest impact of this shift will be on the battery life of the Pixel Watch 2. While the Pixel Watch 2 is not expected to pack a noticeably larger battery, it is expected to offer 24 hours of battery life with AOD turned on. To recall, Google claimed the Pixel Watch can last up to 24 hours with AOD turned off. This means that with AOD turned off, the Pixel Watch 2 can last more than 2 days on a single charge.
