Android Wear just got a great deal more good. Google today reported an iOS application that lets iPhones pair with Android Wear watches, two days prior to we hope to see a surge of new watches from LG, Acer, Asus, Huawei, and others at the IFA exchange show in Berlin.
As indicated by a Google blog entry, the new application moves wellness, hunt, and notice information between your iPhone and your Android Wear watch. You'll have the capacity to holler "alright Google" at your watch to utilize Google Now, and get different Google Now cards intended to surrender you to-the-moment information.
Android Wear on iOSIt's right now just perfect with the LG Watch Urbane (demonstrated above), however "all future Android Wear watches," probably including anything reported at IFA this week, will bolster the new application. The blog entry demonstrates an iPhone running Google Hangouts synchronized to a watch, so this arrangement is presumably more for individuals who vigorously utilize Google benefits as opposed to something like FaceTime. It likewise won't work with outsider Android Wear applications, which are intended to keep running on Android telephones.
Apple Watch, of course, still doesn't work with Android phones.
We've reviewed more than a half-dozen Android Wear watches, and the software platform is clearly still a work in progress. Our smartwatch reviewer, Tim Torres, said the LG Watch Urbane was a "tough sell" at $349, but said the Wear platform, in general, is stuck as "primarily a delivery method for notifications and voice commands." On a recent trip to Canada, I was stymied by trouble with local search and shaky Bluetooth connections between my phone and my watch.
We're sure to hear much more about Android Wear at IFA, especially Wednesday and Thursday as all those new watches appear.
Android Wear will work with iPhone 5 or later models running iOS 8.2 or later. I don't see the application in the App Store yet, however it should go live today.
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