The Galaxy Watch8 series is right around the corner. As far as we currently know, it will drop in early July alongside the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7. We already know quite a bit about the Watch8, and the latest industry chatter claims that Samsung will reuse its own Exynos W1000 chip from last year.
The Exynos W1000 is still a top dog in the smartwatch realm. It is effectively one of the fastest, if not the fastest, watch chip with its penta-core CPU setup, consisting of four ARM Cortex-A55 cores, clocked at up to 1.5 GHz and a Cortex-A78, working at up to 1.6 GHz. A Mali-G68 MP2 GPU and fast LPDDR5 RAM accompany it. The W1000 is manufactured using a very efficient 3nm GAA process.
As for other info, we currently believe that the Galaxy Watch8 series will see the return of the Classic model. The Watch8 Classic has leaked in renders with a “squircle” case design very much reminiscent of the Galaxy Watch Ultra. Apparently, both the vanilla Watch8 and the Watch8 Classic will have the same case shape.
Other alleged specs for the Watch8 Classic include a 46/47mm size with a 1.5” screen diagonal, which works out to 46 x 46.5 x 14.2 mm. We are expecting a 450 mAh battery and likely One UI 8 Watch, based on Wear OS 6.