Earlier this month, we saw a set of leaked renderings of the Pixel Watch. These images showed two watch faces that leaker Jon Prosser expects to be included on the wearable that will be available next year.
The two watch faces now appear in the official Wear OS 3 emulator, along with eight other watch faces that may be bundled with the Google Pixel Watch. And we are getting a better feel for how this wearable will leverage Google's $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit.
9to5Google dug deep into the code and found videos of all 10 of these watch faces animating. For starters, here are two of Prosser's earlier selections.
This suggests that all the faces in the emulator could be included in the Pixel Watch, but more interestingly, it discusses Google's acquisition of Fitbit. Fitness tracking on smartwatches is hardly groundbreaking at this point, but one of the watch faces will display the Fitbit logo along with a running tally of stairs climbed and total calories burned.
Previous Pixel Watch leaks had claimed that the hardware side of Google's next wearable would be handled by the Pixel hardware team, but that Fitbit integration was planned from the software side under the code name "Nightlight," and this The site also supports this claim.
The site notes that the Fitbit-branded watch face was not seen in another version of the video found at the same location, suggesting that this may mean that Fitbit's integration is limited to certain regions.
Steps, heart rate, and calories, with or without Fitbit branding, are heavily featured on many watch faces, but can be displayed in different ways. Some of these include Apple Watch-style activity rings to built-in complications for passive activity tracking.
There are also less "busy" watch faces for those who like to keep things simple.
Some are a bit more abstract. The artistic example below shows a gradual color change as the sun moves across the sky. This may be related to the time of day, but as with many of the other examples depicted above, the time remains stuck at 9:30 in the clip, so it is impossible to be certain.
Hopefully we will see these watch faces on our wrists soon, as the Pixel Watch is rumored to arrive in early 2022, so it probably won't appear with the Pixel 7. However, the possibility of a joint event with the Pixel 6a remains.
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