Google Smartwatch Release News: Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch in Development
Google will have a total of three smartwatches released this year, two available now, the other later this summer. The three smarthwatches are made by other companies but will run Google's Android software.
The Gear Live smartwatch will be made by Samsung. It will be available in the Google Play store Wednesday. The news of the Samsung watch is surprising because the company just released the Gear 2, which runs its own software Tizen.
The other smartwatch available Wednesday will be made by LG. It will be called the G Watch.
Both watches were announced during Wednesday's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.
"We're right at the beginning of a new phase in the miniaturisation of technology," said David Singleton, Google's director of engineering.
Singleton added that both circular and square screened watches will be supported by the software that will run on the smartwatches.
The watches will run Android Wear software and are designed to work closely with Android smartphones. At Wednesday's I/O conference, the watches were demonstrated playing music, making restaurant reservations and more.
The watches, like Android phones, will have the Ok, the Google feature allowing users to activate their watch at anytime by voice.
The full version of the Android Wear software was released Wednesday after being in a preview version since earlier this year.
Android app developers will be able to make smartwatch versions of their apps and the apps will automatically be installed in the watches when the user installs them onto their phone.
"When a watch is connected, the wearable portion of the app is automatically installed and kept up to date on that watch," said Singleton.
Other companies besides Google that have already or plan to introduce a smartwatch include: Apple, Sony, and Samsung. Apple has yet to introduce theirs, but it could come soon.
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