The Pixel Watch will use Samsung’s Exynos 9110 processor and will be equipped with a secondary processor. The tasks of this secondary processor have offloaded tasks on the primary processor. It’s just that it remains to be seen whether this auxiliary processor is under the Tensor brand.
For reference, on the Snapdragon Wear 4100+, Qualcomm has an “ultra-low-power” QCC1110 co-processor that supports 6 4K colors for always-on displays (AOD), Offloads more sensors and other AOD experiences.
The Offload here is mainly to hand over functions such as continuous heart rate monitoring and sleep health, faster tilt-to-wake response, step counting, alarms, timers and haptics to the auxiliary processor. The Pixel Watch will use its coprocessor in a similar fashion, although we can’t confirm that at this time.
The outlet also pointed out that the Pixel Watch will have 32GB of storage. That’s double the size of anything currently on the Wear OS market and raises questions about how to take advantage of it. Downloading songs from YouTube Music and Spotify for offline playback is the most obvious use case, matching the capacity of the latest Apple Watch.
Google’s wearables will have more memory than any existing smartwatch. The Galaxy Watch 4 has 1.5GB of RAM, but the Pixel Watch should slightly exceed that total. Historically, more RAM has solved a lot of Wear OS performance issues.
Elsewhere, the outlet could confirm some of the Pixel Watch’s health and fitness specs, which we first pointed out are apparently identical to the sensors on the Fitbit Luxe and Charge 5 (pictured above). As you’d expect, there’s a heart rate sensor and hardware that supports SpO2 (blood oxygen) and ECG (electrocardiogram) readings.