{"id":4274,"date":"2025-07-18T22:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:33:03","slug":"pixel-watch-4-to-fix-the-biggest-weakness-of-google-wearables-and-introduce-new-sos-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4274\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Watch 4 to fix the biggest weakness of Google wearables and introduce new SOS features"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"A<\/a>A long time coming: The Google Pixel Watch 4 is said to be more repairable than its predecessors. (Image source: Notebookcheck)<\/p>\n

The design and a lot of important specs of the Pixel Watch 4 have already been leaked, but not all. A new leak has just revealed more new important features, while the SOS emergency features are also being expanded.<\/p>\n

At first glance, there’s little new in the Pixel Watch 4, expected on August 20<\/a> alongside the Pixel 10 generation<\/a>. The design has hardly changed and the somewhat older chipset<\/a> remains the same, except for a new co-processor<\/a>. Perhaps worth mentioning in this context is the slightly larger battery and the brighter display. But that’s about in regard to the new features of the upcoming Google smartwatch. <\/p>\n

At least compared to the specs of the Pixel Watch 3<\/a>, this analysis would be correct, but according to fresh leaks, there is a little more to the fourth Pixel Watch generation, namely a quantum leap in repairability. Until the Pixel Watch 3, all Google wearables were de facto electronic waste if something broke, as iFixit prominently described using the example of a defective battery<\/a>. This situation, which is obviously intolerable from the perspective of sustainability, apparently has now been resolved on the Pixel Watch 4. <\/p>\n

According to an Android Headlines<\/a> leak, the Pixel Watch 4 will be repairable in the future, meaning a battery replacement or a broken glass won’t necessarily mean having to replace the entire watch. Moreover<\/a>, the SOS features are also expected to be expanded, ranging from “Personal Safety” features to Emergency SOS, crash detection and fall detection. Lastly, the Pixel Watch 4 is said to support SOS satellite communication and is reportedly able to detect breathing problems, with the latter made possible by unobtrusive SpO2 measurement around the clock.<\/p>\n

\"Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n

As a young tech enthusiast with a history involving assembling and overclocking projects, I ended up working as a projectionist with good old 35-mm films before I entered the computer world at a professional level. I assisted customers at an Austrian IT service provider called Iphos IT Solutions for seven years, working as a Windows client and server administrator as well as a project manager. As a freelancer who travels a lot, I have been able to write for Notebookcheck from all corners of the world since 2016. My articles cover brand-new mobile technologies in smartphones, laptops, and gadgets of all kinds.<\/p>\n

\"Jacob<\/a>Translator: Jacob Fisher<\/a> – Translator – 1932 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2022<\/p>\n

Growing up in regional Australia, I first became acquainted with computers in my early teens after a broken leg from a football (soccer) match temporarily condemned me to a predominately indoor lifestyle. Soon afterwards I was building my own systems. Now I live in Germany, having moved here in 2014, where I study philosophy and anthropology. I am particularly fascinated by how computer technology has fundamentally and dramatically reshaped human culture, and how it continues to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long time coming: The Google Pixel Watch 4 is said to be more repairable than its predecessors.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,63,234,213,235,6063,227,6058,6065,233,6061,226,6056,6055,236,6060,232,228,229,6059,6066,6062,6057,105,231,230,6064],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmarks","tag-gadgets","tag-graphics-card","tag-health-feature","tag-laptop","tag-leak","tag-modular-smartwatch","tag-netbook","tag-new-features","tag-notebook","tag-pixel-watch-3","tag-pixel-watch-4","tag-processor","tag-repairability","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-rumor","tag-satellite-communication","tag-sos-feature","tag-successor","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-wearos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}