Google Pixel Watch 3: Specs, PW2 upgrades, and new software program

The Google Pixel Watch 3 41mm and 45mm have arrived. Announced on the Made by Google summer season occasion, the Pixel Watch 3 fixes among the Pixel Watch 2’s flaws on the best way to changing into among the finest Android watches of the 12 months.

If you are not fussed in regards to the Pixel Watch 3’s brand-new 1.4-inch show possibility, then we’ll break down the entire different key variations to see whether or not it is modified sufficient from the Pixel Watch 2 to tempt you.

You can take a look at our Pixel Watch 3 evaluation for an in-depth take a look at its efficiency, new Wear OS 5 options, health accuracy, and our professionals and cons.

Below, we’ll concentrate on the Pixel Watch 3 specs, value, colours, launch date, and every part else you need to know!

Google Pixel Watch 3: Price, launch date, and colours

The Google Pixel Watch 3 ships on September 10, practically a month after its August 13 announcement. The hole is a bit stunning, provided that the Pixel 9 will launch on August 22 and the Pixel 9 Pro on September 4. We’re unsure why Google selected to stagger issues like this.

The Google Pixel Watch 3 41mm and 45mm price $349 and $399, respectively, whereas the Pixel Watch 3 LTE prices $449 or $499. That’s twice as a lot for mobile assist as final 12 months; Google is providing two free years of knowledge with this watch, however solely 500MB monthly earlier than information obtain speeds are capped. You’ll want so as to add it to your service for standalone calls and streaming.

You additionally get six months of free Fitbit Premium with any mannequin.

The Pixel Watch 3 41mm is available in 4 finishes: a Matte Black case with an Obsidian Band, Polished Silver with a Porcelain Band, Champagne Gold with a Hazel Band, and Polished Silver with a Rose Quartz Band.

The Pixel Watch 3 45mm has solely three coloration choices: the identical Matte Black and Polished Silver case choices, plus a Matte Hazel case with a Hazel band.

Both watches include an Active Band in small and huge sizes, plus a USB-C charging cable. To use a Pixel Watch 3, you may want an Android telephone working Android 10+ and a Google account. 

Google Pixel Watch 3: Specs and 41mm vs. 45mm

Qualcomm hasn’t made a brand new Snapdragon W5 chip since 2022, leaving Google caught with the identical CPU whereas Samsung and Apple can improve their chips every time they need. Still, loads of watches maintain the identical CPUs for years at a time, and Wear OS 5’s sturdy new software program methods, like Nest livestreams, show that the Pixel Watch 3’s “previous” CPU has some life left in it.

The Google Pixel Watch 3 41mm and 45mm largely share the identical specs and options. They have completely different show sizes however the identical pixel density. 

Wear OS 5 has an adaptive UI structure that modifications how textual content and menus are laid out based mostly on the show dimension. The picture above exhibits what we imply: the 41mm Pixel Watch 3 solely matches three Fitbit sports activities icons per display, whereas the 45mm Pixel Watch 3 matches six.

The Pixel Watch 3 45mm has an additional 114mAh of capability over the 41mm. Some of that goes immediately into powering the bigger show, however it could additionally assist the bigger watch final barely longer. In both case, we have discovered that the Pixel Watch 3 lasts considerably longer than Google’s 24-hour estimate. The 45mm Pixel Watch 3 can simply last as long as 40–48 hours, relying on how lively you’re with it.

The different distinction between the 45mm and 41mm Pixel Watch 3 is that the 41mm watch could be charged in 60 minutes, whereas the 45mm watch takes 80 minutes. The smaller watch takes 4 minutes much less to succeed in 50% however quarter-hour much less to succeed in 80%. 

Google Pixel Watch 3 vs. Pixel Watch 2

We have an in-depth Pixel Watch 3 vs. Watch 2 information that runs via each key distinction. By and huge, the Pixel Watch 3 41mm is sort of much like the Watch 2. All of the next design parts or options are unchanged:

• Both use a Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 with 4 Arm Cortex-A53 cores at 1.7GHz, plus a Cortex M33 MCU.
• You get 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage with both watch.
• They have the identical ingress safety towards mud and water, plus the identical Gorilla Glass 5 layer.
• They share the entire similar well being sensors, measure the identical dimension, and weigh the identical.
• Both have a 306mAh battery and 24-hour estimate per cost with AOD lively (although the Pixel Watch 3 is barely extra environment friendly).

Highlighting what’s completely different, the Pixel Watch 3 41mm show shrunk its show bezel by 16%, so that you get a 1.27-inch, 408×408 show as an alternative of 1.2-inch, 384×384 show. The brightness jumps from 1,000 to 2,000 nits, matching the brand new business commonplace, and the show itself makes use of LTPO tech to hit 60Hz for regular use or as little as 1Hz for the always-on show. 

Of course, you will have a brand new 1.43-inch show possibility within the 45mm Pixel Watch 3, hitting 456×456. The PPD is similar, however you do get rather more area that Wear OS 5 makes use of to suit extra info on-screen.

In phrases of connectivity, the Pixel Watch 3 leaps from Bluetooth 5.0 to five.3, so you may have a stronger telephone connection that makes use of much less energy and cuts via any sign interference extra simply.

The Watch 3 additionally helps the Wi-Fi 5GHz commonplace, not simply the two.4GHz commonplace just like the Pixel Watch 2; that’ll considerably enhance app obtain speeds. And you get Ultra Wideband for the primary time, enabling a Watch Unlock function in your related Android telephone.

You get 20% sooner charging speeds on the newer Pixel Watch; it takes six minutes much less to hit 50% energy and quarter-hour much less to hit 100% in comparison with the Pixel Watch 2. With the Pixel Watch 3 45mm, it takes two minutes much less to hit 50% however 5 minutes extra to hit 100%, due to the additional capability.

Google additionally instructed us that the Pixel Watch 3 has their “most correct coronary heart fee for working” in comparison with the Pixel Watch 2 and 1 as a result of it makes use of machine studying to scale back movement and lightweight artifacts from fast arm motion and from altering working tempo. In our evaluation, we discovered the Pixel Watch 3 did fairly properly for coronary heart fee accuracy, although not excellent.

Every different new Pixel Watch 3 function ought to trickle right down to the Pixel Watch 2 as soon as the Wear OS 5 replace arrives, so we’ll concentrate on these options subsequent.

Google Pixel Watch 3: New software program

Wear OS 5 on the Pixel Watch 3 is all about integrating extra intently with different Google gadgets and bettering the Fitbit health expertise.

If you personal a Nest Doorbell, you possibly can see a reside feed of whoever’s on the door and hit the mic button to speak to them via your watch. You can use it as a distant management in your Google TV Streamer or different Google TV gadgets. Google can be promising offline Google Maps navigation for the primary time.

With a Pixel telephone, you possibly can see Expanded Call Assist screening information or use Pixel Recorder together with your telephone in your pocket. If you are taking a gaggle picture, you possibly can place your Pixel telephone down after which use your Pixel Watch 3 as a viewfinder, switching between digital camera modes in order for you.

Google needs the Fitbit app and the Pixel Watch 3 to turn into extra tempting for runners. You can now construct customized exercises in your telephone or watch, with warmup durations, goal paces for set distances or occasions, intervals, and so forth that’ll buzz your wrist or present audio cues throughout a run. If you do not need to create your individual, Fitbit Premium may have AI-generated exercises, too.

You’ll now get working type insights for issues like cadence and floor contact time after a run, recommending “content material and drills” to enhance weak factors in your type.

While Fitbit has supplied a Daily Readiness Score for years by way of Premium, Google’s “All-New Readiness” rating is obtainable to everybody, not simply subscribers. You’ll see how prepared you’re in your subsequent exercise based mostly in your current sleep, HRV restoration, resting coronary heart fee, and up to date coaching load.

You’ll see your Readiness rating, sleep abstract, at the moment’s climate, and different information in your Morning Brief that pops up after you get up. It’s fairly much like the Morning Report you get on Garmin watches, besides with extra of a well being focus. You’ll get a warning, for instance, in case your HRV, respiration fee, or blood oxygen is out of your regular nightly vary.

The Pixel Watch 3 will choose your Cardio Load, or how laborious you have labored out in current weeks, and choose whether or not you are “bettering, sustaining, or falling behind” in your health. You’ll see a “Target Load” stat based mostly on Google’s machine-learning information on how a lot Cardio Load you need to do to enhance with out overtraining. 

Fitbit will even save your private working data, such because the “quickest 10K” or “farthest run” for the primary time. We’ll have to attend and see whether or not Google focuses on different common sports activities like Cycling or Weightlifting for future updates.

Google Pixel Watch 3: Should you purchase it?

The Pixel Watch 2 ranked extremely on our checklist of finest Android watches for the previous 12 months. It’s quick, uniquely trendy, correct for well being information, and advantages from Google’s possession of Wear OS with its robust software program and colourful UI. We merely wished that it got here in a couple of dimension and lasted a bit longer per cost.

With the Pixel Watch 3, we lastly bought that second dimension possibility, and even the smaller 41mm dimension has more room for apps than earlier than. As for battery life, it is undoubtedly extra environment friendly than final 12 months, however not on the similar degree as three-day watches just like the OnePlus Watch 2R or TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro. If battery life is your chief concern, the Pixel Watch 3 is probably not the look ahead to you.

Otherwise, although, the Pixel Watch 3 is a implausible Wear OS watch. It’s trendy, quick, and higher related together with your different Google and Pixel gadgets. If you are intrigued by its new Fitbit instruments, then this can be a no-brainer.