<p>As unbelievable as it may seem, we might be just months away from a first-party Google-branded smartwatch finally existing. After initial rumors and leaked marketing materials started appearing online earlier this month, anything seemed possible. A new report dives deeper into what you can expect from Google&#39;s wearable next year, including its name, software features, and even a peek into its processor.</p>

<p>Let&#39;s start from the top. These revived rumors made it clear that Google wouldn&#39;t be using its Fitbit brand to market the watch &mdash; it&#39;s getting its own Wear OS device sometime in the future &mdash; but that &quot;Pixel Watch&quot; wasn&#39;t set in stone either. According to new details from 9to5Google, we&#39;re starting to better understand how the company might brand its first-ever wearable. In an update to the Google app on Android, a reference to &quot;PIXEL_EXPERIENCE_WATCH&quot; points at the gadget sharing in the Pixel branding. The company uses these &quot;experience&quot; tags to mark exclusive features, and it looks like this specific watch could follow in the footsteps of phones like the Pixel 6.</p>

<p>The name &quot;Pixel Watch,&quot; or some slight variation on it, makes a lot of sense. Google has finally started taking hardware a lot more seriously with the release of its recent flagship phones, and earlier rumors suggest a similar path with its watch. Keeping its mobile-focused lineup under one brand &mdash; just as its smart home gear uses the &quot;Nest&quot; name &mdash; makes a whole lot of sense.</p>

<p>So what might those exclusive features cover? We don&#39;t know much about the software experience on this gadget just yet &mdash; hell, we barely know what Wear OS 3 looks like without Samsung&#39;s One UI skin in the first place &mdash; but it sounds like the newest version of Assistant that first launched with the Pixel 4 might make an appearance. It would allow for voice commands and queries to run directly on the watch, rather than always reaching out to the web for every single action. 9to5Google even managed to find an Assistant-related asset in the Wear OS 3 emulator, complete with a light bar design exclusive to Pixel phones.</p>
