As we know, the boom in connected objects represents a very lucrative market for competing manufacturers. Finding a place in an emerging market and decided to continue its insane expansion for years to come. At the heart of this new development is smartwatches or connected watches, which are part of the new technologies where competition is heating up.
At the center of this market, we find Samsung and Google, whose relations on the subject have been deteriorating in recent weeks. Until recently, Google CEO Larry Page complained about Samsung’s lack of cooperation with the Android Wear connected watch operating system, specifically by copying the model of his own smartwatch under Tizen for Galaxy Gear Live under the Google operating system.
These criticisms are just the latest in a long series that culminated a few weeks ago with the announcement that Android Wear will be replaced by Tizen, Samsung’s operating system in the first generation of the Galaxy Gear. It’s a permanent replacement (no way back!) available today in the United States via Kies 3.0 software, and possibly in other countries very soon.
An update is not mandatory, but…
Contrary to what was thought at the time, the update will only be optional and not mandatory on all models. However, Samsung has provided the arrival of many features that almost look like a computer. indirect injunction to take the plunge proprietary operating system. The update will indeed allow access to all 140 Tizen apps, most of which are inaccessible via the Android operating system.
Notably, it includes the entire S Health fitness and wellness suite (with a few exceptions for hardware issues), as well as a new music app that lets you store music on your smartwatch and play it directly over Bluetooth. headphone.. A feature that allows the watch to track getting rid of its traditional role in expanding the smartphone. The switch to Tizen also promises a significant improvement in battery life.
With this decision, Samsung confirms its strategy to feature the Tizen operating system, which has proven to be much faster to deploy to smartwatches than smartphones. A new delay has been announced for the Samsung Z terminal under Tizen.
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