Pixel Watch 5 hands-on: Health, GPS and AI at the forefront - Engadget

This year’s Google smartwatch brings some innovations and some overdue features. Google entered a new category with the Fitbit Air earlier this year, delivering a comprehensive set of tools in a fresh form factor, so it's hard to get too excited about the Pixel Watch 5. After all, the Pixel Watch 4 was already a pretty solid, well-rounded smartwatch that seemed to have found its niche. And from just a glance, the latest Pixel Watch seems like an iterative update, especially considering what few hardware updates there are this year. But with some genuinely intriguing improvements like on-device Gemini for offline use, a big promise on GPS-tracking and a continued focus on durability and longevity, the Pixel Watch 5 might just deliver enough to justify its $50 price hike. At least, that's how I felt after my afternoon at a hands-on event with some sample devices. Starting at $399.99, the Pixel Watch 5 is available for pre-order today and will ship from Aug 20. It looks very familiar, but has some interesting features that might make life easier for fitness fanatics and the health-conscious. Some of the changes this year aren't immediately visible, like improvements brought about by t