According to the latest reports, the release of the Galaxy Watch 4 series marks a new chapter in the history of Wear OS. New features including the ability to use OEM skins on the platform will get performance improvements under the ground. Some of these features may be unique to Wear OS 3 smartwatches, but users of Wear OS 2 devices need not be too jealous, because some important features will appear on their own smartwatches in the next few weeks.
Google announced some new experiences for Wear OS 3 on Galaxy Watch 4, including a new map application and a YouTube music application that supports offline download. Fortunately, three of these five experiences will also apply to existing Wear OS 2 smartwatches. First of all, Google Pay support is being expanded to Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine and the UAE, and there will be more in the future More countries and regions have joined.
However, the most striking is Google’s updated Messages application, which allows users to reply to text messages more easily without having to take out their mobile phones. This is mainly due to a new user interface, which makes text easier to enter even on a small screen. Because the information on Wear OS is synchronized with the information on the smartphone, users will never miss important information.
Wear OS’s home screen widgets will introduce new Tiles, which allows them to quickly access the content and control related apps. These new third-party tiles include tiles from Strava, Calm and Spotify. Spotify recently announced that existing Wear OS devices will support offline listening.
For Wear OS smartwatch users, this is undoubtedly good news, because they may have been abandoned by Wear OS 3 as a whole. It is unclear whether smartwatches released in the past 12 months have the opportunity to upgrade to the latest version of Wear OS so that even if they do not have the latest equipment, they will still get some of the most interesting features.
