Google officially launched Android Wear, the version for connected devices. Motorola and LG will soon launch their smart watches.
With or without Samsung ( who chose to install its new Tizen watches connected ), Google will not let the market smartwatch and wearable devices. For a while, we heard about this version of Android for connected objects. And it was finally presented by Mountain View.
Android Wear: there it is!
There are already some smart watches running Jelly Bean . But Android Wear wants more optimized for this type of hardware. Moreover, it is not limited to smart watches. Wear Android should arrive on other categories of "wearable devices." As you will see in this video presentation, the interface of the new operating system refers us directly to Google Now .
A priori, the objects will use this operating system will be second screens for smartphones, not watches / phones . But according to Google, they will also "launch your favorite movie on your TV" and can connect to many other devices.
The Android smartwatch Wear feature "OK Google" feature, which allows you to use voice commands and have "clear answers to questions." Through the screen, the user can also receive notifications, messages, navigation information, etc.. And of course, the operating system was also designed for the facility. For developers, the resources are already available online.
Wear two watches Android LG and Motorola signed
Google never does things by halves. As usual, the launch of an operating system that comes with hardware that will use it. There will even two: Motorola Moto 360 and the LG G Watch watch.
Motorola revealed his watch Moto 360. One of its features is its design as it is a smartwatch that looks like a real watch. It will be sold this summer and will begin in the United States. Let's just hope the 360 will soon come to Europe as was the case of Moto X. At the moment, we do not know more details.
For its part, LG has chosen a design more "digital". Watch the LG G has even been developed in partnership with Google. In fact it is surprising that the product name did not include "Nexus" or "Google Play Edition." LG has already announced that his watch is compatible with a wide range of Android smartphones and marketing begin in the second quarter of 2014. Details will come later, perhaps at Google I / O. But even before the formalization of product information had leaked the Twitter account @ evleaks.
Besides LG and Motorola, Google announced that it is already working with other manufacturers such as Asus, HTC and Samsung, as well as fashion brands.