Especially if said platform is supposedly one of the three
big wearable platforms in the market (Apple watchOS and Samsung's Tizen being the other two).
Not exact matches
Right out of the gate, Google's new Android - powered
wearable device
platform gets two
big partners.
However, while the original model was one of the classiest
wearables on the
platform, the follow - up trades its small bezels for a
bigger and bulkier frame.
Android Wear has been Google's one and only
platform for
wearable devices since it launched «way back» in 2014, and while last year gave us some
big updates to the
platform, 2016 is set to be a
big year for Google - powered smartwatches.
Google has just announced a
big update to the Android Wear
platform that will make your
wearable much more functional.
Samsung using Tizen for its
wearable platform has many advantages, but one of the
biggest downsides is in its handling of apps.
The time has almost come for Android Wear's
biggest update yet, which will probably make or break Google's smartwatch
platform for good, as
wearable devices approach that point in their sluggish evolution when they need to prove their worth or literally die trying.
The Android team was reportedly hard at work on
wearables and a
big platform refresh for the fall.
«Smartwatches represent a
big piece of the
wearable pie, and Broadcom's new
platform expands opportunities for Android Wear developers designing both high - end and affordable devices.
Qualcomm, the world's
biggest mobile chipmaker, has announced a range of products at the company's analyst meeting today, including a new Snapdragon Wear
platform for
wearables, the first commercial gigabit LTE modem for mobile devices, and several new low to mid-range mobile chips.
This year, however, Google is expected to release one of the
biggest updates for its
wearable platform, and earlier this week at Google I / O, the search engine giant confirmed some of the major upcoming additions in Android Wear 2.0.
At its IO conference today, Google announced Android Wear 2.0, the
biggest update to its
wearables platform yet.
So last year, Google went back to the
wearable drawing board to develop Android Wear 2.0, the
biggest update to the
platform since its launch.