Android Wear goes wireless to work with more gadgets – Nutech

Smart Watches with Android Wear to work together with other gadgets such as wireless headphones via Bluetooth and get GPS support.

That says lead Android engineer David Singleton at Cnet .

Android Wear according Singleton will receive updates via the Wear app on Android phones. With these updates, additional features are added.

Ultimately, Google wants Android to Wear the pivot is all technology that can be. Worn on the body “Our approach to wearables as watches, Glass, even our smart contact lens for diabetics, is to make you forget about until you need them things,” says Singleton.

This expansion of Android Wear starts with a Update and bluetooth headsets and GPS will be supported. That makes it possible inter alia that Wear-users can transmit music. Directly from their smart watch to a wireless headset

GPS support makes Android Wear watches with its own GPS chip as possible. In this way, the watches are less dependent on a paired Android phone.

Singleton promises before the end of this year some updates to Android Wear. Will take place next week in Berlin gadget fair IFA in place. There are several manufacturers of Android-Wear watches expected. So Asus has several hints to the arrival of its first Android Wear smart watch

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By: NU.nl/Floris Gate

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