Samsung is pulling the final plug on Galaxy Watch models powered by Tizen, with the company set to fully cut off remaining watches from their apps and watch faces.
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Wear OS 6 is now available for the Galaxy Watch series in the form of Samsung’s One UI 8 beta update. The new software will offer a few changes, including serious health suite features.
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While we might all be excited about One UI 8 Watch’s looming beta, Galaxy Watch FE users have an entirely separate update to be excited about.
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Earlier this week, Samsung announced One UI 8 Watch, detailing some of its upcoming features ahead of next month’s rumored Galaxy Watch 8 series unveiling. With the arrival of the company’s software support forums for its next big watch upgrade, we’re one step closer to a public beta.
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From major players like Apple and Google to enthusiast brands like Garmin and Whoop, subscription-based health and wellness plans are all the rage these days. Now, Samsung might be looking to get in on the race.
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Samsung has just announced its first beta of One UI 8 Watch for Galaxy Watch, but this is the first time that the company won’t be releasing the beta to all of its Wear OS models.
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If you use a Galaxy Watch, you might want to check your settings as a new software update is rolling out for select models.
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Google Gemini has become the go-to default AI assistant for Android devices, and even though Android phones have recently integrated Gemini, earbuds from certain brands have been left out. According to Samsung and Google, that’s going to change rather soon with Gemini for Galaxy Buds 3 and Sony earbuds.
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The Galaxy Watch heavily relies on tiles as one of the main ways wearers can access information from their devices, and they seem to do the job fine. Samsung wants to switch things up, according to new leaks suggesting that the company will introduce a new type of tile along with some updated designs for the Galaxy Watch with One UI 8.
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Samsung is reportedly looking to use new battery tech in its wearables – including Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring – as soon as later this year which would provide improved “energy density.”
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The latest smartwatches from Samsung and Google lack support for older watch faces that worked on older Wear OS smartwatches. Here’s why.
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After months in beta, Samsung has officially announced the rollout of One UI 6 Watch with Wear OS 5 to its entire Galaxy Watch lineup.
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Years into Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series, there’s still one aspect of the software that rubs me the wrong way, and it’s how Samsung chooses to handle notifications – by turning the vast majority of them off by default.
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Samsung just unexpectedly released a new update for its very first Galaxy Watch, the one released in 2018, two full years after support was technically supposed to end.
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While Samsung’s attention has clearly shifted over to Wear OS, the company isn’t abandoning its Tizen wearables. Today, alongside the announcement of its One UI 4/Android 12 update, Samsung is launching an update for Tizen smartwatches to bring over features from the Galaxy Watch 4.
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Samsung is pretty good about supporting its smartphones, and arguably it’s even better when it comes to smartwatches. This week, Samsung has rolled out an update to both its 2020-released Galaxy Watch 3 and the 2018-released Galaxy Watch with some Wi-Fi and other fixes in tow.
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Following the example of Google’s Wear OS, Samsung has just added a new “Hand Wash” timer to its collection of Galaxy smartwatches as the folks at SamMobile spotted.
One of the best smartwatches you can buy for an Android phone doesn’t actually run Android, but Tizen. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch has proven a stellar option for many, and this week it’s getting updated with improved swim tracking and more.
Samsung makes some of the best smartwatches for Android users, but they lack a lot of the Google apps that make alternatives more appealing. What’s especially a shame is the lack of Google Assistant, with Samsung’s less capable Bixby in its place. Now, though, there’s a way to install Google Assistant on a Samsung Galaxy Watch and other Samsung models. Here’s how.
Design matters when it comes to the wearable on your wrist, and that extends to the watchface too. Pujie Black has been an excellent option for Wear OS users as far as a super-customizable watchfaces go, and with its latest update, the app is making its way to Samsung’s Galaxy Watch family.
Samsung’s skinned version of Android Pie, called One UI is quite the overhaul of previous versions of what people sometimes wrongly refer to as TouchWiz. The latest version of One UI is now rolling out to the Galaxy Watch, Gear S3, and the Gear Sport.
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Samsung’s smartwatches are some of the best options available for Android, but over the past few days there’s been a serious flaw with them. The Samsung Galaxy Wearable app that makes using these watches possible has been broken since late last week.
With its killer battery life, one of the key features that Samsung advertises on the new Galaxy Watch is sleep tracking. Now, with a recent update, Samsung has improved Galaxy Watch REM sleep tracking even more.
Samsung’s Gear lineup of Tizen smartwatches has impressed me since the Gear S2 first made its debut, and the Gear S3 Frontier sat on my wrist for well over a year after its debut. Now, Samsung has thrown out that branding with the new Galaxy Watch, but also reinvigorated that same hardware with one killer feature. Should you buy it? Spoiler alert, yes you should – here’s why.
