Google Pixel Watch is allegedly leaked with a circular design, and is rumored to be released in October

Jon Prosser has shared the benefits of Google’s first smartwatch, codenamed “Rohan,” which shows that Google plans to adopt a circular design for its flagship portable watch.

Prosser shared the performances in an episode of his YouTube show “Front Page Tech,” in which he claims they were made based on marketing material he had seen from a Google source. Representations show that the Pixel watch will adopt a circular design without bevels, without buttons, except for a crown on the right.

The screen itself, unlike the Apple Watch, has a completely circular shape factor. Internally, the Pixel watch will feature a heart rate sensor, but so far it is unknown if it has more advanced health features, such as blood oxygen control in the Apple Watch Series 6.

Like the Apple Watch, which allows users to switch and switch bands, Google will offer around 20 band options for the Pixel Watch, according to Prosser.

The watch is expected to run on WearOS, Google’s smartwatch operating system. As for a launch, Prosser says the watch will debut “sometime in October,” but warns to be cautious, given Google’s habit of delaying and even canceling products altogether.

In 2019, Google signed a $ 40 million deal with watchmaker Fossil to take over its smartwatch division. As a result of the deal, Fossil smartwatches joined Google’s WearOS family and also sparked widespread speculation that Google intends to manufacture its own branded smartwatch to compete with Apple. Watch.

In addition to changes to make it thinner, clearer and a larger screen thanks to smaller bezels, the design of Apple Watch has remained largely the same since its launch in 2015. A recent patent has revealed that Apple is researching an Apple Watch design with a screen that wraps around the band, where in turn, the watch band becomes an extension of the screen.