Wednesday 25 April 2018

How to choose a smartwatch if you use Android

Back in February, Ron Amadeo wrote an excellent piece at Ars Technica that pointed out an obvious fact: Google’s Wear OS is in serious trouble. Of course, back in February, Wear OS wasn’t called Wear OS; it was called Android Wear. The renaming happened mainly because Google wanted to emphasize that watches based on the OS could work with iPhones as well as Android phones. Though, in this context, “as well” doesn’t exactly apply: Wear OS is a much better experience with Android than with iOS.

But Wear OS isn’t all that great of an experience on Android, either, which was the point of Amadeo’s piece. One of the big problems is that there’s really only one processor available for these watches: a Qualcomm chip that’s woefully out-of-date....

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17277608/android-wear-os-gear-sport-fitbit-versa-skagen-smartwatch

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-to-choose-smartwatch-if-you-use.html

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