Items tagged with wear os
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Aaron Leong - Wed, May 14, 2025
Google has unveiled a significant visual evolution for its Android and Wear OS operating systems, introducing an improved new look powered by Material 3 Expressive. This update, revealed ahead of the annual I/O developer conference...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Feb 27, 2025
A big, potentially life-saving feature is coming to a Google Pixel Watch 3 near you. It's called "loss of pulse detection" and it's coming to U.S. users by the end of March following approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Feb 27, 2024
It's official, the OnePlus Watch 2 is now one of the longest-lasting Wear OS smartwatches on sale, capable of up to 100 hours of use. This is possible thanks to a dual-engine architecture powered not just by a regular chipset running Wear...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Feb 21, 2024
As a lead up to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, OnePlus is teasing its latest OnePlus Watch 2, a Wear OS 4-powered smartwatch that comes nearly three years after the first model. Besides the adoption of Google's best-yet watch...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jan 29, 2024
Fossil, one of the few prominent Wear OS smartwatch makers, is over and done with the smartwatch business altogether. The company has officially bowed out to refocus on its traditional watch and jewelry products, which means hardcore fans...
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Ryan Whitwam - Thu, Nov 30, 2023
The holiday season is upon us, and Google has some early presents for Android fans. A raft of new features are beginning to roll out today. They run the gamut from phones, to TV, to wearables, to the Google Messages app.
Google has...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Jun 02, 2023
Android is a mature platform after almost 15 years on the market, so we don't see as many major feature rollouts as we once did. Google is still finding ways to enhance its mobile platform, though. Today, Google is announcing the release...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Feb 27, 2023
Google's Wear OS is getting a couple of relatively solid improvements this quarter that could bring some much-needed fizz to your Wear OS wearable.
At MWC 2023 in Barcelona, Google is making it presence known by announcing a couple of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 22, 2022
Wondering where all the smartwatches built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform are at? It's not just you—these elusive timepieces are few and far between. As such, luxury smartwatch maker Montblanc is joining rare company with...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 13, 2021
There are plenty of gadgets you can play games on—PCs, dedicated game consoles, tablets, smartphones, and so forth. Will wearables represent the next gaming frontier? We'll have to wait and see, but Tag Heuer has taken a step in that...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Jun 25, 2021
Yesterday, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 were leaked in full glory. The former was visible from both the front and the back, while the latter was only seen in its folded state. Today, another hot leak is coming our way, and...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, May 18, 2021
Yesterday, the Wear OS Twitter account teased an announcement about the platform set for today's Google I/O event. Now, Google and Samsung have announced plans to develop one unified wearable operating system in the future. This change...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 18, 2021
Google's annual developer conference kicks off today, marking a return of the Google I/O event after it was cancelled last year due to the pandemic. It is a multi-day affair, running from today through May 20, and will cover a bunch of...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jun 30, 2020
Qualcomm has been on a crusade to iterate at lightning fast speeds with its smartphone SoCs, but the same can’t be said for its efforts with the rapidly growing wearables market – specifically with smartwatches. The company announced its...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 29, 2019
Motorola made a huge splash onto the smartwatch scene with its striking first-generation Moto 360 smartwatch running Android Wear. Motorola followed it up with a second-generation design with even more customizations, and then the smartwatch simply fizzled out.
Well, the Moto 360 is back...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 05, 2019
As promised, Fossil today formally introduced its Gen 5 smartwatch family utilizing the Wear OS by Google platform. The new smartwatches bring with them some nifty upgrades, including a handy perk for iPhone owners, and start at $295...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, May 01, 2019
Google has announced an update to its Wear OS that powers many of the wearables available on the market today. The big change here is that Wear OS now has Tiles, which are essentially little information cards that you can scroll through...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Feb 08, 2019
Google has been making moves in recent weeks to beef up its Wear OS and the hardware that runs the operating system for wearable devices. In mid-January, the company spent $40 million to acquire key Fossil smartwatch intellectual...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 17, 2019
It looks as though Google is starting to get serious [again] about its Wear OS and the smartwatches that use the operating system. The Fossil Group announced today that Google is purchasing $40 million worth of intellectual property that...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Sep 10, 2018
The smartwatch sector is starting to heat up, and according to IDC, the Apple Watch is leading the way. However, devices based on Google's Wear OS are also putting up a good fight, and they will now have some much-needed ammunition in the...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Aug 29, 2018
Earlier this morning, we brought you news that Google is set to revamp its Wear OS with a more intuitive user interface, and now we're learning about a new hybrid Wear OS smartwatch on the way from a pioneer in digital watches:...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 29, 2018
Google is revamping its Wear OS (formerly known as Android Wear) platform for smartwatches, with a focus on making it quicker and easier to access information and notifications. Users can also expect more proactive help from the Google...
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