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- The Pixel Watch 2 makes subtle design changes that make it incompatible with cases meant for the first-gen Pixel Watch.
- The crown is slightly bigger, and the button and speaker holes are positioned slightly differently.
The Google Pixel Watch 2 is the company’s second smartwatch in recent years. It’s on its way to becoming a recommended smartwatch for Android phones. The newest generation Watch looks much like the outgoing first-gen Pixel Watch, but it isn’t completely identical, and that seems to have caught people off-guard. If you plan to reuse a case from the older watch onto the newer one, note that it will fit.
As spotted by 9to5Google, the new Pixel Watch 2 has subtle changes to its body that render it incompatible with first-gen Pixel Watch cases. Case makers have begun adding disclaimers, noting that cases for “Pixel Watch” (the first generation) are incompatible with the Pixel Watch 2.
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