Wear OS 5 and the Recorder app are rolling out to older Pixel Watches
The Recorder app is one of the newer features coming to older Pixel Watches. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
If you have an original Pixel Watch or Pixel Watch 2, good news: Wear OS 5 will begin rolling out today and, with it, a handful of new features.
The most interesting one is the Recorder app. This was originally introduced as an exclusive to the Pixel Watch 3, and it lets you record audio directly from the wrist. You can then open it up — along with a transcript — on your phone. (This feature does, however, require that you have a Pixel phone.) Other updates include improved Camera controls and a grid-view app launcher. The latter is a neat surprise — previously, you could only view apps in a list format, which could get tedious to navigate if you downloaded too many.
Wear OS 5 also brings with it a number of battery-saving...