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Google Is Revamping the Wear OS Smartwatch UI (theverge.com)
Google is bringing a new user interface to Wear OS, along with a new feed of information from Google Assistant, faster access to Google Fit, and a more information-dense view of your notifications. The Verge examines all these new changes one by one: The most important change is the one you see above: a feed of information from Google Assistant. It's designed to show you relevant info about your day, like calendar details, package-tracking info, and the weather. Next are notifications, which operate basically the same as before. They still mostly mirror what's on your phone. Dismissing a notification on your watch will do the same on your phone, and many apps will allow you to quick reply with suggested chips. But the best feature here is that Google is going back to a more information-dense display that puts all your notifications on a single, scrollable pane instead of having them fill the entire screen one by one.
Swiping left will now take you to the new Google Fit interface, which shows the two new rings that Google is has created to track your health. One is "move minutes" and the other is "heart points." Last but not least, swiping down takes you to a slightly revamped Quick Settings pane, which adds two oft-requested buttons: one for finding your phone and another for Google Pay. More (but perhaps not enough) Wear OS watches come with NFC now, and the Google Pay button will make sure that the chip is on and ready to pay when you walk up to the point-of-sale terminal.
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Swiping left will now take you to the new Google Fit interface, which shows the two new rings that Google is has created to track your health. One is "move minutes" and the other is "heart points." Last but not least, swiping down takes you to a slightly revamped Quick Settings pane, which adds two oft-requested buttons: one for finding your phone and another for Google Pay. More (but perhaps not enough) Wear OS watches come with NFC now, and the Google Pay button will make sure that the chip is on and ready to pay when you walk up to the point-of-sale terminal.
Add some useful functionality. Seriously, make it actually useful for something. Right now it's not even a good timepiece.
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The single most important feature of a smartwatch is voice recognition. When you say "ok, Google," it needs to react immediately, every single time, without failing, ever. When you dictate something, it needs to react immediately, with 100% accuracy, always. Otherwise, it's not a particularly useful device.
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Sad to say, Samsung is kicking Google's tail in the smart watch category with crap Tizen built on crap Enlightenment toolchain, which is nonetheless better than Android for a watch. One word: native.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The issue there is battery life, it takes a whole lot of CPU cycles to decode human speech. Maybe it could work if you also have a phone in your pocket to do the heavy lifting.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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having a smart watch since about a year, there some things besides the time which are really nice and I use regularly - map while running - two factor authentication - stopwatch - check on email - weather - alarm There is room for improvement. like the annoying bugging if the phone is not nearby (like when running). One should be able to download and keep certain frequently used map areas for example.
It looks like APK is bringing the weak sauce today.
Totally confused. Can you elaborate?
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
I've seen nothing compelling to the smartwatch phenomenon. They are revamping a UI that is uninteresting to me.