![]() As it is, Android Wear devices suffer from short battery life, and that’s without GPS tracking or music playback. See also: What Not To (Android) Wear: One Woman’s Search For Smartwatch BlissĮven if that weren’t true, it’s not clear how those new features might drain power. The other, GPS, is only compatible for Sony’s watch. Watches from LG, Samsung and Motorola will get offline music syncing. Problem is, only one of the two key features in this update can be used universally by all Android wearables. Now the offline music and GPS features, targeted at fitness-minded users, nudge Android Wear somewhere in between. Today’s Android Wear devices have always fallen firmly in the latter category. The big battle in smartwatches these days-other than convincing people to want one-is the fight between standalone watches and those that pair with a smartphone. Android Wear Watches Become More Like Standalone Devices It started taking pre-orders from Verizon on Thursday, officially giving Android Wear its first GPS-equipped wrist gizmo. Sony’s latest-and unimaginatively named- Smartwatch 3 will be the first to take advantage of the new features. That’s a first for the platform, which makes this the biggest-and perhaps most important-software update for Android-powered wearable devices so far. All that potentially gives these gadgets useful features that will still work, even if they’re not tethered to a smartphone. Google pushed out a major update for its Android Wear smartwatch software that, among other things, supports location-tracking GPS hardware and offline music syncing.
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