Google has just recently announced that they will be partnering with smartphone manufacturers, HTC, LG, Samsung and others to expand the Android OS into smart wearables.
As the next tech phase seems to be moving into the “smartwatch”, Google is following the concept and has set its Android team to perform a complete overhaul of Android that will work on a small wrist watch. The Android OS you use on your phone works quite well already, but your phone is three times the size with powerful hardware; the new smartwatch has nothing close to the performance of your smartphone. The new Android Wear OS will be heavily based on their already existing Google Now platform which has, arguably, some of the best software in voice recognition technology.
With Google already in full force in creating the first “smart eye glasses”, named Google Glass, they must be seeing a future in these technology wearables.
As Google is a software company and lacks the infrastructure to make hardware at mass quantities, they have introduced LG, Asus, HTC, Motorola, Qualcomm and Samsung as their hardware manufacturers for these watches. This is a big effort as the plan is for LG to manufacture the display, HTC, Asus, and Motorola to manufacture the body, whereas Samsung and Qualcomm will take care of the internals.
More will come from Google’s I/O 2014 show in June, stay tuned to TSF for coverage on that as well, and only time will tell how good the response will be from Google’s customers. Google’s major competitor, Apple is also rumored to be planning the release of a new smartwatch this year.
Personally, I find that if the smartwatch is to be the next tech phase, Google is the company that will make it so. They have the ability to transform almost everything they work on into gold, and they do it in such a way that it fits everybody’s liking. Google Now is a somewhat hidden feature in Android but for those that do use it, you will find that the functionality is like no other.
To learn more about how Android Wear OS will work on the watch, take a look at the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ3y902DEQ
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