As rumored earlier this year, Samsung announced that the company’s Gear S2 smartwatch will officially support the iPhone at some point this year.
The news was announced at Samsung’s CES 2016 press conference, and the company didn’t spend too much time on the subject as that’s all the information provided. Unfortunately we are not yet sure how functional the circular smartwatch will be with the iPhone.
The Samsung Gear S2 runs Tizen, a unique smartwatch operating system different from Android Wear. As you probably already know, Android Wear is officially compatible with the iPhone, but the capabilities are limited to receiving notifications and that’s about phone/watch communication.
Rumor we heard last year suggested that Samsung plans to release an iOS app called Gear Manager that will enable the Tizen-powered Gear S2 to pair with the iPhone.
The Gear S2 is Samsung’s first circular smartwatch, which makes it look like a traditional watch instead of a tiny computer strapped to your wrist.
The frame can also rotate, acting as a navigation control and a sort of selector.
It will be interesting to see how well Tizen and iPhone get along and whether it offers more features on the iPhone than Android Wear. But for now, we’ll have to wait and see what Samsung decides to do and when exactly they will launch iPhone support.
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