Earlier this year at Google I/O 2021, the search giant made its initial announcement regarding the new Wear OS 3.0 co-developed by itself, Samsung, and Fitbit. The software made its debut on the Galaxy Watch4 series, however, with Samsung’s One UI skin on top of it. Now, months later, we finally get to see how the latest Wear OS appears in its original form.
According to a Redditor (via XDA Developers), Google has released a new version of the Wear OS 3.0 emulator image. The newly uploaded image bears a build date of November 17.
For the unaware, the previous release of the image was months older than the Galaxy Watch4 lineup. The older build included Material You elements, an updated app drawer, and a new quick settings menu.
Whereas, the latest release comes with a new brightness slider, more gradients and toggles on the Settings page, and icons on the recent screen. As you can see from the screenshots, the stock Wear OS 3.0 resembles Tizen, which is not surprising as Samsung has merged its wearable OS with that of Googe’s.
OEMs like the Fossil Group and Mobvoi are not known for using a heavy skin on top of Wear OS. Hence, Wear OS 3.0 on smartwatches from these companies should look near-identical to the screenshots attached above.
Wear OS 3.0 is expected to roll out for non-Samsung smartwatches in the mid to second half of 2022. Since we are still months away from that, the software could go through even more changes before its final release.
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