The Pixel Watch 3 could get ultra wideband and a brighter screen

Google’s Pixel Watch 3 whitethorn person a brighter 2,000-nit show with smaller bezels and an ultra wideband (UWB) chip, according to a caller study from Android Authority. And it won’t conscionable beryllium a caller show and spot — the Pixel Watch could beryllium getting a artillery boost, too. The rumored 45mm Pixel Watch volition person a 420mAh battery, up from the 306mAh of past year’s watches, portion the 41mm exemplary volition lone get a 310mAh battery.

Over the weekend, an FCC filing appeared to confirm a UWB spot for the Pixel Watch 3. (FCC documents shut down the notion for the Pixel Watch 2 past year.) UWB chips, which usage short, high-frequency wireless bursts for pinpoint-accurate determination sensing, mean the Watch 3 could beryllium much easy findable connected Google’s recently upgraded Find My Device network. The tech is besides showing up successful different devices like astute locks and in cars, letting them respond to you erstwhile you’re adjacent if you person a UWB instrumentality linked to them.

If the rumor is true, it suggests different marked betterment for the Pixel Watch series, aft the Pixel Watch 2 got amended wellness tracking and a bigger artillery than the archetypal version. But determination was lone 1 size, it wasn’t arsenic airy arsenic it seemed similar it should be, and The Verge’s Victoria Song questioned its durability aft it took connected mysterious scratches just 2 days into her reappraisal of it. It’s unclear if each of those issues volition beryllium resolved with the Watch 3 — but if you privation to beryllium optimistic, this each sounds similar large news.