This week, two videos detailing the workings of Samsung’s Augmented Reality (AR) glasses were leaked online. The AR glasses could be used for several applications and it was said that mid-air gestures won’t work for the device, but rather it would be operated using a Samsung smartwatch. Now, another report has revealed that indeed Samsung may soon release two separate smartwatch models and the codenames of the models have also featured in the rumour mills.

Not too long ago, a leak emerged about Samsung’s 2021 lineup of Galaxy smartwatches having the model numbers SM-R86x and SM-R87x. Going by the tradition of Samsung, these models will likely be different sizes of the Galaxy smartwatch. It is also rumoured that at least one of the smartwatch models could have the Android’s Wear OS instead of the usual Tizen OS, reflecting an improvement in the model.

This rumor seems to have been lent more weight with the discovery by the guys at GalaxyClub that the Korean giant was working on two smartwatches with codenames Wise and Fresh. The codenames are being interpreted in some quarters as reflecting that Samsung is indeed planning to introduce a fresh approach to its smartwatches by unveiling the Wear OS smartwatch which reflects a new direction for the company’s watches.

The Android integration for Samsung’s smartwatches holds a lot of promise. The integration will open a wide array of opportunities and possibilities on tasks that can be accomplished by the new smart wearable device. Obviously, the company would have its own AR glasses in mind while developing the soon-to-be unveiled smartwatches, as it continues to expand the frontiers of technology along the lines of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

Samsung is yet to make any statement on the impending release of its Galaxy Watch lineup for 2021, but the speculations remain rife about a shift to the Wear OS for one of the models.

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Google has announced that it would be pushing a new update to its Wear OS used by millions of smartwatches te world over. The update is expected to start rolling out in the Fall and will deliver several improvements which were highlighted in the post.

The tech giant says it is improving performance by making it faster to access your info and start your apps. The pairing process has also been simplified to make onboarding easier. There is also an improvement to the OS’s system UI for more intuitive controls for managing different watch modes and workouts. For watches with improved CPU cores, they will get up to a 20% speed improvement in startup time for their apps.

Google noted that some of the most used features of Wear OS by Google are hands-free timers and tracking fitness metrics. In response to COVID-19, a new handwashing timer has been built into the user interface to help ensure users practice good hygiene.

Further, the tech giant promises a beautiful new weather experience for Wear OS which aims to be easier to read while on the go. The weather widget will have an hourly breakdown of today’s weather to help you plan ahead and provide information about important weather alerts in your area. This feature will roll out in 2021.

Google is also working on updating the core of Wear OS to Android 11, bringing newer APIs to the platform. As a reminder, Wear OS is currently based on Android 9 Pie.

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The CEO of Huami Technology might have just revealed the company’s upcoming watch will run android wear while he was talking about the battery life.

In his post, Mr. Wang said he has used a number of smartwatches running android or android wear from big brands and battery life didn’t go beyond a day. He also mentioned that since the second generation Mi Band offers a 20-day battery life and he has gotten a 7-day battery life from other big name sports bracelets, he should be able to get a few days from the Huami watch.

Only to later post that the smartwatch will have a battery life of 2 days under normal use or close to 3 days but not more.

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Apart from the battery life, the CEO also hinted at the Huami smartwatch possibly having a circular dial with touch support and also feature physical buttons.

The company has released a teaser image for the smartwatch which mentions a friendly-user interface and a pedometer.

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While we ever covered the news about the new Android logo, and now we have the information that those logo is the new logo for Android wear OS. This OS is based on smartwatch platform that now adopt by LG G smartwatch device.

The boot animation is consist of nice animation that showing the four colorfull small dot that’s transform to Android logo which appear as the sun and moon and spin as the small colorfull dot.

Here is the video that showing those animation and there is a GIF animation after the break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yks-GuClSJ8

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