When the watch ecosystem promoted by Google seemed quite static and beset by different flanks with exclusive proposals from other brands, Samsung announced the start of Tizen’s merger with Google’s Wear OS. The announcement was accompanied by the promise of more future information in this regard and as part of the 2021 MWC in June. the company provided more data.
In this case, Samsung has decided to start the house on the roof almost literally because the first official information we have in this regard comes from the proprietary layer that will cover this merger. The mix between Tizen and Wear OS will have above a layer that inherits the layer name from Samsung and is called Samsung One UI Watch.
More integrated, more customizable and with direct plugins from Google Play
With Samsung One UI 3.1 on the street and already working on the next version that will run on Android 12, the Korean firm is moving its interface to family watches with the new One UI Watch. With this One UI Watch, Samsung places its interface at the top of the future operating system and makes it respecting the design lines we already know from Tizen, and also resembling the design of its cape in the rest of the Android ecosystem.
To unlock the full potential of these wearable devices, we are leveraging our long heritage of mobile innovations and our partnerships with trusted industry leaders who have grown with us in our open ecosystem. “- Patrick Chomet, Executive Vice President of Customer Experience, Samsung
As we said, One UI Watch inherits the design lines of the Tizen currently flowing through the veins of the clothing Samsung to take it one step further and cover an operating system we still don’t know about, one that will emerge from the mix of Tizen itself and Google’s Wear OS. In principle, it looks like the new Samsung One UI Watch will run on a future Galaxy Watch 4 which will be presented later But it is not excluded that the ecosystem of Samsung watches will become homogeneous with future updates.
With the new One UI Watch come graphical improvements such as the customization of the clock app which will allow the time to be displayed from different parts of the world and which will reproduce the behavior of the clock app for mobiles. The watch will also “send” to the cellphone in that if we block any calls or messages from the watch, said blocking will be transferred to the phone.
The platform will allow for greater integration with third-party applications which can be downloaded directly from Google Play to the Galaxy Watch, and which includes improvements and greater integration of applications with both mobile weight like Strava, Adidas Running, Spotify, Caim or Youtube Music. And of course we will have a browser on the watch that will connect directly to Google Maps.
But in addition to the apps themselves, the new One UI Watch will allow a new tool to create custom watch faces to land. It will be available for Android developers and it will allow you to create a large collection to customize these watches. Samsung confirms that The future Galaxy Watch 4 will be the first to release One UI Watch. It is to be hoped that it will also be the first to put into circulation the operating system, a product of the alliance between Samsung and Google.
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