It's time for Android Wear to get a reboot. Google launched a new version of its smartwatch OS on Wednesday, along with two LG watches, the LG Watch Sport and the LG Watch Style. Wear 2.0 has been ...

Google's willingness to cross platforms and port all its apps to iOS devices seems to know no bounds -- and is a pleasant contrast to the format wars that traditionally dominate smartphones. After ...

Smartwatches started as a niche product, overpriced and limited, but in recent years they have evolved into full-blown gadgets in their own right. It is not hard to see why as they offer everything ...

Android Wear launched four years ago this week. Since then, the platform has embodied Google’s wearables strategy for Android-powered smartwatches. However, uptake and progress have both been sluggish ...

The Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Watch 3 are now receiving the Wear OS 5.1 update as part of the March 2025 Pixel rollout. While Wear OS 5 was based on Android 14, Wear OS 5.1 upgrades to Android 15, ...

Android Wear now supports watches with a built-in Wi-Fi connection so that you can continue to receive notifications from your phone over a data connection even if your watch isn’t connected to it. If ...

Following Galaxy Watch 8 and Pixel Watch, Gemini is rolling out to more Wear OS smartwatches. As Google announced last week, Gemini is coming to all watches running Wear OS 4 or higher from brands ...

The Elephone ELE smartwatch has been listed, and as we suspected it is based on MediaTek’s MT2601 system-on-chip (SoC). The MT2601 is MediaTek’s first processor specifically designed for Android Wear.

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...

Samsung Galaxy smartwatches in a wall display of a store - ZikG/Shutterstock Smartwatches started as a niche product, overpriced and limited, but in recent years they have evolved into full-blown ...