Google has reportedly acquired WIMM Labs, the company that first introduced us to its 1 - inch, Android -
powered wearable platform back in 2011.
Not exact matches
Right out of the gate, Google's new Android -
powered wearable device
platform gets two big partners.
webOS as a
platform is currently kept alive by LG, who purchased the
platform from HP in 2013 to develop into its own software
platform and has so far used it to develop a critically lauded smart TV
platform before shifting development to a possible
wearables platform in the vein of Samsung's Tizen with a rumored webOS -
powered smartwatch.
Until recently, this was the game with the most
power - ups in any Mario
platform game (a total of 9
power - ups), but it was beaten by Super Mario 3D World (this game has 16
power - ups, if you count the
wearable items as well)
SEOUL, June 26, 2014 — With an eye on transforming
wearable devices into more than just a conversation piece, LG Electronics (LG) today introduced the highly anticipated LG G Watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3KLjVUzF4), one of the first devices
powered by Android Wear ™, Google's new operating system which extends the Android
platform to
wearables.
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.
It runs a newer version of Tizen - based
wearable platform, and is
powered by a 1 GHz dual - core processor with 512 MB RAM, and 4 GB internal storage.
As we see smartwatches rise in price and hardware improve, Google needs to ensure its software keeps up otherwise we may see OEMs looking at alternative
platforms to
power their
wearables.
It's going to be the first
wearable device from Samsung to be
powered by the Tizen 3.0
platform out of the box.
Its new Android Wear
platform, which is designed to
power all sorts of
wearable gadgets but will start with smartwatches, represents a serious threat to competing devices like the Pebble Steel and upcoming challengers like the Samsung Gear 2.