New Delhi, June 30 -- Google's Pixel Watch 3 is quietly raising the bar for Android smartwatches. Released with the Wear OS 5.1 update in March 2024, it's the first watch on the platform to include Channel Sounding, a Bluetooth feature that measures the exact time it takes a signal to travel between devices. This approach delivers far more precise tracking than older Bluetooth methods that only guess distance based on signal strength. The hardware already supports it, but the feature still depends on more devices adopting the same technology before it becomes part of daily use.

Channel Sounding is a Bluetooth technology designed to calculate distance between two devices measuring how long it takes a signal to travel back and forth betwee...