Google breathes new life into Wear OS smartwatches with today's update

Today, Google will begin rolling out a software update for Wear OS smartwatches As I wrote last month when Google first announced that the software update was coming, Google is changing what happens when you swipe on the main watchface Wear OS has long had a hardware problem: the partners creating Wear OS smartwatches have tended to produce pretty enough but technically deficient devices.

I've been testing on two different Fossil-produced smartwatches: the Skagen Falster 1 and the new Fossil Gen 4 Q Explorist HR In both cases, I think the new software seems nominally more responsive than before Neither Wear OS smartwatches nor Fit can do nearly as much as Apple's ecosystem, but Google's system is a better foundation to build on than what we had before.

Wear OS 2.1 is a very nice update for existing users, and my understanding is that it should be available via a relatively simple update for nearly all of them It's enough to bring me back to using a Wear OS watch without gritting my teeth, but it's not enough to make me want to get a new one. . Source