Android Wear is definitely starting to grow on me. I’ve become more and more accustomed to sending text messages right from my wrist and, with new app updates, it’s slowly growing more powerful. Today is yet another example of its progression: Amazon updated its Android app with new functionality that will allow you to order goods right from your wrist. Once you have the Amazon app...
Android Wear still has a ways to go before it feels like a fully-functional operating system, but an incoming update should add a handful of much needed features and improvements. A new report from Phandroid reveals Google's plans for Android Wear 5.0 Lollipop, and it looks pretty great. One of the biggest improvements coming to Android Wear is a watch face API, which will open the...
The Sony SmartWatch 3, first introduced during the IFA trade show in Berlin, is now available for purchase from the Google Play Store. The device first hit Google’s online market back in October, but until today had simply said “coming soon.” It’s listed for $249 and Google promises it will leave the warehouse within 1-2 business days. The Sony SmartWatch 3 stands out against the...
Google began rolling out new Android Wear updates for a number of watches last week, and now its Wear companion app for Android is also getting some new features of its own — including the ability to automatically hide card previews to prevent them from spoiling your watch face. The whole point of buying an Android Wear device over a traditional watch is so that you can see your...
Sony unveiled the Xperia Z3v earlier today as a Verizon exclusive during a press event, but that’s not the only new gadget headed to the U.S. carrier. The Japanese tech giant also confirmed that its Android Wear-powered Smartwatch 3 will be available on Verizon, though the company didn’t reveal exactly when it will launch or how much it will cost. The Smartwatch 3 is a pretty standard...
The Moto 360 is finally here and available for purchase for $249, which is considerably lower than the $299.99 price point we were expecting. TechnoBuffalo president Jonathan Rettinger and myself have been testing two separate units for more than a week now, and we’re here with a full review of the Moto 360. Is it the smartwatch you’ve been dreaming of? Should you run out and buy one...
Microsoft rolled out a pretty big update for OneNote today, adding support for Android Wear, iOS 8 and improving the app on Windows Phone. There’s a good amount to unpack here but the big news is the company’s first app for Android Wear, which offers a taste of Microsoft’s plans for the budding wearables market. OneNote for Android Wear is extremely simple, which makes sense...
The Apple Watch won't actually hit stores until early 2015, but you don't have to wait until next year for a taste of Cupertino's new wearable device. If you already own an Android Wear device you can equip it with Apple's new smartwatch watch face today thanks to the hard work of one Android developer. The new Android Wear watchface, cleverly called Pear, mimics the Apple Watch design...
While Android users are free to customize the OS anyway they want, Google's Android Wear platform is much less flexible. As it stands, OEMs don't have the ability to use their own skins, which means the experience is more or less identical across the lineup of devices currently available. That hasn't stopped companies and third-parties from putting their own stamp on the platform, and...
Google has begun rolling out its first Android Wear software updates, and it seems Samsung's Gear Live is top of its list. The Android Wear 4.4.W.1 release brings improvements to navigation and voice actions, and it's expected to make its way to other smartwatches soon. Recent reports promised that Android Wear updates would be coming soon, and although this certainly won't be one of...