After a few years of recession refreshing, the wearer OS 6 is forming to become an important leap forward. For starters, Gemini Google Assistant will replace a large material on the wrist along with 3 expression re -design that benefits from the faces of the circular clock. Oh, and running for the third year, the latest dress OS will also improve battery life.
“Over the past two years, we really re -imagined with Gemini at the center with Gemini with Gemini, and now we are growing ahead of the phone,” says Gem Williams, who wears the OS product manager.
Williams says adding Gemini is much more than just taking the assistant, which is already available on many wearing OS watches. Like most generative AI, one of the benefits is a better natural language conversation, meaning you don’t need to speak your orders Just so much. Gemini will also interact with other apps in the wearer OS. For example, you can ask about restaurant reservations, and Gemini will refer to your Gmail for this information. Williams also says he will understand more complex questions, such as summarizing information. You can still use complications, app launchers, a button shortcut or access to Gemini “Hey Google”.
Gemini will need internet connection. This means a Bluetooth connection through your phone, or Wi -Fi or LTE connection on the watch. Williams says the team is watching offline capabilities below the line, but refusing to comment on the same time.
Williams says “Gemini is free from OS6,” explaining that although some abilities will be tied to OS6, it will be available on every wear with today’s assistant on the OS device. (Mean, if you have OS to wear Does not Is an assistant, he is not getting Gemini.)
Nevertheless, this is still encouraging news when you consider the platform struggle to connect the assistant. It was too delayed when Google moved the Samsung tossin OS to OS 2 integrated clothing to OS 3 platforms. It took two years before Fusil finally left the market. And while some wearing OS watches still do not have an assistant, this indicates that the transition to Gemini may be less dirty as a whole.
Wear OS 6 will play Google’s new Material 3 Expressive design language. Lily Darling, wearing OS -visual and movement lead, says, “We wanted to move beyond something that is deeply related to you. With OS6, the first important thing we did was actually embrace the circle,”
When Darling was asked if that means OS (and that’s why Google) is announcing whether it is a circular display or broken. However, he noted that Google “has decided to raise the component of every design to celebrate the goal form element.” This includes everything from layout and font selection to scrolling dynamic images and transitions between screens. The onscreen buttons have been tweeted to “embrace the display” so that it is easy to tap, while tiles and notifications are more pronounced. Notifications now include photos of Avatar and Embeded Thumbnail, so you can quickly see who is texting or emailing you. Color enming OS jumps from Android to wear, so you can quickly replace things to match your phone or clothing.
Google did not have so much to share so much about the OS6 performances in addition to the slight “up to 10 percent” in battery life. This is probably not the most interesting update, but Google’s VP and GM of Wear OS Bajorn Kilburn says it is a permanent demand from Smart Watch users.
“This is a really difficult problem and this is an inch game,” Kilburn says. We say that the team has improved the power efficiency when using the clock to play or control the media. So, if this is something you can use to wear OS Watch, you never expect it.
Because Google is choosing more important updates this year, Killburn says it is partly a matter of time. He says there are plenty of time to make such a major update. But in particular, they explain that it was a deliberate move to ensure the phone and watch. It says, under the hood, Android 16 and OS 6 share the same code base. It helped Google accelerate the OS wearing the Perity with what is available on the Android phone.
“These are the two really important devices that people have,” says Kilburn, that, by note to the Android and wearing OS teams, it has been a lot of time to ensure that the projects are in line. Thus, “At least your phone and watch may feel like they are really together and at the same time share the same overall design morals.”
