Google announced that the Android Wear 2.0 developer preview will launch today for developers (the site in that link isn’t active yet, but should be soon). It will also launch for everyone to test out sometime later this fall. Android Wear 2.0 includes new features just like the Complications in watchOS for the Apple Watch, allowing third-party developers to tap into the system to...
Google just announced Android Wear 2.0, a major update to its wearable technology operating system during Google I/O 2016. Here’s everything that’s new. Android Wear 2.0 lets developers create watch faces that can show information from any Android Wear app. It also includes a new smart reply feature that allows you to respond to incoming notifications quickly by scribbling on the touch...
Two years after Android Wear burst onto the scene, Google has released a new standard for watchbands known as “Mode.” That’s just a fancy and more succinct way of saying Google wants to make switching watchbands a much easier process. The new system isn’t that far off from traditional bands, using pins that hook into a watch’s lugs. As you can see in the pictures, however, there’s an...
I used to play Counter-Strike almost every day in my high school dorm room on a PC I built. Seemed like, back then, I still needed a bit more power to get it running smoother. Now that same game is up and running on Android Wear. What?! YouTuber Dave Bennett recently published a video that shows him running Counter-Strike on his smartwatch. Pretty useless, something you’d almost...
As promised, you can finally buy Casio’s first Android Wear watch right now. The device, which sports a sleek yet rugged design, is available from a handful of retailers for $500. The Casio WSD-F10 Smart Outdoor Watch runs Android Wear software. It packs a 1.32-inch LCD display, 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and is water-resistant at up to 50 meters. It can also measure the altitude and...
Casio’s badass smartwatch, the terribly-named WSD-F10, was first introduced during CES 2016. We had a chance to check it out at the show and walked away pretty impressed. It’s nice and rugged with MIL-SPEC standards and has both online and offline functionality, including altitude, atmospheric pressure, tide graphics and more, which should be pretty useful for the outdoorsy bunch. Casio...
Baselworld, the annual watch and jewellery expo in Switzerland, has quickly become a breakout opportunity for high-end smartwatches. First, Fossil announced seven new wearables, then Samsung revealed a diamond studded version of the Gear S2, and now Michael Kors has unveiled its own take on Android Wear. The company’s new Access lineup will include options for men and women and offers...
Most water-resistant phones and wearables are designed to hold up when submerged in about a meter of water for 30 minutes or less. Then there’s the Nixon Mission, a new smartwatch from the California company that can survive at up to 100 meters underwater thanks to an impressive 10-ATM rating. The Mission is Nixon’s first smartwatch. It runs Android Wear and packs Qualcomm’s new ...
Google’s new Android Wear update, which was announced just last Thursday, is already rolling out to the second-generation Moto 360. The update brings a long list of new features and improvements, including an indoor run tracker called Moto Body Running. This is the first Android Wear update based on Marshmallow, and it has adopted some of the features you expect to see in an Android 6....
Google just announced a new Android Wear update that's going to be rolling out to all Android Wear watches over the next few weeks. The update expands on gesture support for existing smartwatches, allowing you to do new things like "push, lift or shake" your smartwatch to execute certain commands. It also adds the ability to send voice messages through third-party applications like...