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The Galaxy Watch line from Samsung has adopted several health-related features over the past couple of cycles in an attempt to match health tracking trends and to keep up with the Apple Watch. The Galaxy Watch 4 had everything from heart rate and SpO2 tracking to sleep monitoring and an electrocardiogram function. For the Galaxy Watch 5, Samsung is reportedly adding one of the final missing health features.
According to a report from ETNews, Samsung will add a thermometer to track body temperature from the wrist. This is a potentially key metric to follow to determine the overall health of a person, at least that’s what other fitness companies have convinced us.
For example, companies like Fitbit and WHOOP have been checking wrist temperatures for some time to determine a baseline skin temperature of a person. They then track that skin temperature, looking for variations that could predict things, like a person getting sick, menstrual cycle starting, level of stress, and general wellness. Samsung will likely try to accomplish similar things on a Galaxy Watch 5.
Samsung and Apple have apparently been holding off on adding temperature tracking to their smartwatches because the technology is said to be finicky or not that accurate. Samsung is said to have developed a technology that could do solve this problem.
Today’s report says to expect the Galaxy Watch 5 this summer. I’d imagine it will be timed to launch with a Galaxy Z Fold 4 in August, assuming we get another one.
The impact of COVID-19 on the tech industry and the world at large may have prompted Samsung to finally buckle down and develop a workable temperature sensor for its new watches. The report suggests that Samsung has already figured out a way to allow the Galaxy Watch5 to circumvent most of the challenges mentioned above and measure body temperature as accurately as possible.
The Google Pixel 7 might not upgrade one important key feature over the Pixel 6
Unlike most other Android manufacturers, Google does not tend to upgrade the camera hardware on its Pixel phones every year. Instead, it further optimizes its algorithms to eke out the most from the sensors. The company used Sony’s 12.2MP Sony IMX363 sensor across four generations of its devices: starting from the Pixel 2 in October 2017 to the Pixel 5 in 2020. In fact, if rumors are anything to go by, the upcoming mid-range Pixel 6a could very well use the same Sony shooter. This is despite the industry switching to bigger and higher-resolution camera hardware with pixel binning — the best budget Android phones now come with 108MP cameras.
The 50MP GN1 shooter inside the Pixel 6 series is still among the best in the market, so there’s little reason to be worried about the Pixel 7’s camera capabilities. The ultra-wide sensor could be a cause of concern since its performance on the Pixel 6 series was not great to begin with — it captured noisier and darker photos than the primary shooter. Despite processing improvements with this generation’s Pixel, there’s only so much detail that Google can extract from a smaller sensor.
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