Google opens attack on Apple Watch with major Android update Wear – iculture

Google today released a major update to smart watches with Android Wear, which allows the watch an even formidable competitor to the Apple Watch. In addition, Google has introduced a new feature that looks suspiciously like a function that we of the Apple Watch know: you can now emoji on an Android Wear watch signs, and the smileys to your friends are sent.

The Android Wear watches use special software to drawings recognize and convert to standardized emoji. This will give your friends see a smiley instead of a rough sketch that you made on the watch screen. This Android Wear, like the Apple Watch received an emoji option puts all of Apple’s just something different. The Apple Watch have namely three-dimensional emoticons, you can adjust by turning the Digital Crown. You can only send to Apple’s emoji other Apple Watches.

Google’s Android Wear watches feature a functionality that we know from the Apple Watch: support for Wi-Fi. Are you at home, you do not have to stay within Bluetooth range of your phone to use certain functions. Indeed, it is directly over Wi-Fi connection to the Internet. A functionality that might be arguably more powerful than Android Wear watches on the Apple Watch: because you can install Android Wear self-contained apps are also to utilize these applications without phone in range

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The update for Android Wear it may make Apple Watch pretty tricky: this are the functions of the Android watch again largely on one line with that of Apple. That while watches with Android Wear often cheaper. The Moto360 costs in many online shops less than 200 euros, while the Apple Watch from 400 euros offered. At the moment it is not possible to use Android Wear with iOS, but there probably will change. According to several reports, Google would namely working on an Android Wear app for the iPhone. Rumors were discussed again on the day that Apple Watch presale started abroad. It is however still the question of what Android Wear features detailed functioning in combination with the iPhone.