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Moto 360 Gets Big H-MR2 Wear OS Update

Kellen March 22, 2021 5

The Moto 360 (3rd Gen), a watch that Motorola does not actually make, is receiving its big H-MR2 update this week. The update, which is apparently the first the watch has seen in six months or so, was a part of Google's fall Wear OS update that only a few...

Confirmed: OnePlus Watch Doesn’t Run Wear OS

Kellen March 17, 2021 26

We've been trying to tell you this was likely to be the case for weeks now, but OnePlus has gone ahead and confirmed it ahead of launch - the OnePlus Watch won't run Wear OS. I repeat, the OnePlus Watch is not a Wear OS watch. In a brief post today, OnePlus...

Wear OS is Getting a Mystery “Platform Update” Soon

Kellen March 12, 2021 16

Every time we share the sad story of Wear OS and how it always seems on the brink of being put to bed, Google randomly shows up and tells us about some sort of new feature on the horizon or that an update is coming soon. It's almost never anything huge, but...

Google Fixed “OK Google” on Wear OS!

Kellen March 11, 2021 7

After the Wear OS community's cries for help over broken "OK Google" functionality were picked up by media and shared widely, Google acknowledged the bug that had plagued the platform for months. Today, Wear OS owners have noticed that Google's favorite...

Wear OS Watchmakers Seem Destined to Kill the Platform

Kellen March 9, 2021 47

The watch pictured above is the Huawei Watch 2 from 2017. It was a solid Wear OS watch at the time, with the best specs currently available, including Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip. Again, that was in 2017, a full year after Qualcomm had introduced that...

TicWatch Pro 3 Gets First Big Discount at 15% Off, But You Have to Hurry

Kellen March 5, 2021 4

Mobvoi gave us a taste of the discount we've been asking for a week or so ago when they shaved off $15 from their excellent TicWatch Pro 3, the only watch currently running the Snapdragon Wear 4100. Today, they are going bigger in a limited-time deal on Amazon...

Is a New Samsung Wear OS Watch Interesting?

Kellen March 4, 2021 31

That's the question I keep asking myself now that we have both rumors and a possible code reference to Samsung working on a Wear OS watch for the first time since the platform launched in 2014. I can't decide if Samsung should make a Wear OS watch again or if...

Samsung Source Code Hints at Wear OS-Powered ‘Merlot’ Smartwatch

Tim March 3, 2021 12

Thanks to a lot of work from @MishaalRahman, digging through a pile of kernel source code, a hint has been discovered that appears to back up the biggest unconfirmed news in town: Samsung is making a Wear OS smartwatch. According to Mishaal's discovery, lines...