Category: Wear OS

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Moto 360 (3rd Gen) review: The pioneer of Android wearables is back, sort of

Back in 2016, Motorola made the decision to abandon the smartwatch market, citing it didn’t “see enough pull in the market” for another one. The original Moto 360 and even the 2nd Gen version were major strides in a relatively small Android wearable ecosystem. They were (and still are) pretty beloved devices by (as it was called then) Android Wear users. Fast forward to now and we now have a new Moto 360 running Wear OS, but it’s not exactly made by Motorola anymore.

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Google acquires Fitbit for $2.1 billion, still commits to investing in Wear OS

Chances are, you’ve heard of Fitbit. They’re one of the leaders in the wearable market for health and activity trackers. Today, Google announced that it will be buying Fitbit as a whole for $2.1 billion. It’s also important to note that this isn’t Alphabet, Google’s parent company, acquiring them. Fitbit will fall under the Google brand, just like Nest and all other Google products.

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Google bought $40 million of smartwatch tech from Fossil including some personnel

Wear OS, Google’s smartwatch platform based on Android, isn’t as popular as the big names like the Apple Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch. But thankfully, Google hasn’t abandoned it just yet and seems to be investing a lot more in the platform. Today, Fossil announced that Google is buying a portion of its ‘smartwatch technology’ and R&D team for $40 million.

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How to connect your Wear OS watch to a new phone—without wiping

If you’re like me, you probably reset your phone or change ROMs fairly often. I frequently clean flash on my phone, and as you probably know, this means setting back up your Wear OS device to connect back to your phone, wiping the watch and all data on it. It’s possible, however, to keep your data and simply sync your watch to your newly set up phone.

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The new TicWatch Pro runs Wear OS and can get you up to 30 days of battery life

There’s never been an Apple Watch equivalent for Wear OS. Be it having bad battery life or being too thick, all Wear OS smartwatches have had flaws. Enter, the TicWatch Pro. Created by Mobvoi, it aims to fix all the flaws other Wear OS smartwatches had. And further, it claims up to a whopping 30 days of battery life.

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