This past week, Google upgraded its Pixel Watch wearables to Wear OS 6.1. The update brings Android 16 QPR2 to watches for the first time, and more importantly, includes some cool new features. The highest-profile addition is new gesture controls that let you pinch your fingers or flick your wrist to perform certain actions with one hand, a useful option that competitors like Samsung and Apple have offered variations of for some time in their own wearables.
There’s just one problem. These gesture controls are exclusive to the latest Pixel Watch 4, with no immediate plans from Google to bring them to older models. And if you ask me, that feels pretty un-Pixely.