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The company blocking blood oxygen features on Apple Watch has new deals with Google and Qualcomm.

Pulse oximetry features were recently removed from new Apple Watches due to Masimo’s patent infringement claim. Now the medical device maker has announced deals with Qualcomm and Google for Wear OS reference platforms.

They say that OEMs who use them will design the wearables exteriors and software, but with internal hardware, software, and sensors designed/tested by Masimo.

The Masimo W1 and Freedom protoype side by side on a table.
Masimo’s W1 wearable along with a prototype of its Freedom wearable, which will use Qualcomm hardware.
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
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