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As far as the wearable market goes Samsung has evidently told everyone that it is not kidding around. Last year it released the Galaxy Gear, a smartwatch that might not have performed too well, but it laid down the foundation for what’s to come. Now two new Gear smartwatches have already hit the market alongside an activity tracker but it appears that there may be more wearables up Samsung’s sleeve. The company may release an Android Wear smartwatch in the coming months.

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Samsung Android Wear Smartwatch Expected Later This Year original content from Ubergizmo.

Most smartwatches out there act as companion devices. Meaning that they need to be paired up with a smartphone or a tablet in order to tap into most of its features. As much as we would want our wearables to be more powerful and capable of doing a lot more, that’s simply a limitation that doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Recently Google launched Android Wear, a new SDK for wearable devices. LG and Motorola are both building smartwatches on it. While they look refreshingly different from the current crop, it appears that Android Wear smartwatches won’t really be different from their rivals at least initially.

In detailing what developers need to know about Android Wear, Android Engineer Sagar Seth gives a variety of tips that developers should keep in mind when building for Android Wear powered smartwatches. Seth says that developers should focus on using landscape images, notifications with image in the background and really harnessing the power of Google Now voice commands.

Though he also mentioned that developers need to remember that they won’t be building full-fledged applications for Android Wear, where the application would sit on the device itself. It won’t. It would simply be notifications that would make information available when the user needs it to be. This means that Android Wear smartwatches would also need to be hooked up with a mobile device.

Was this to be expected or is this really not what you would have imagined Android Wear smartwatches to be like? We all love the idea of having a smartwatch that can do all this on its own, but perhaps we’ll have to wait for a bit before they become a reality.

Android Wear Won’t Support ‘Full-Fledged’ Applications , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gadgets, android wear, Google, Wearable Tech,

Recently Google launched Android Wear. The company has developed this SDK to expand Android onto wearable devices. Two of the first companies to commit to Android Wear are LG and Motorola, both of them will be using Android Wear for smartwatches. LG has shown of its G Watch while Motorola’s Moto 360 has been dropping jaws since it was unveiled. Sony fans hoping for the company to jump on the bandwagon as well are out of luck. Head of Sony Mobile U.S., Ravi Nookala, tells CNET that the company won’t be adopting Android Wear for its wearable devices.

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Sony Steers Clear Of Android Wear original content from Ubergizmo.

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