Sunday, February 7, 2016

Android Wear: voice commands and calls from a watch – ZDNet France

The watches connected in Android Wear will benefit from new functionality after the update by Google in its operating system.

Last November, Kevin Tofel ZDNet speculated the upcoming Android Wear features based on logs of version 1.4. He will again took several weeks for Google to issue the update of its platform and boost competition facing Apple WatchOS.

Apple watch it possible for example to answer calls and conduct telephone discussions directly via the watch. The new version of Android Wear adds a function equivalent to Android watches with the necessary components such as Huawei and Asus ZenWatch Watch

Among the new integrated Google figure thus:. Navigation on the watch through new gestures; sending messages by voice including apps like Google Hangouts, Nextplus, Telegram, Viber, WeChat and WhatsApp; make, receive calls via Bluetooth and listen to messages, provided you have a watch connected with the speaker.

According to a Juniper Research study published in January, Apple dominates the market for connected watches. In 2015, among the 17 million watches elapsed, 52% were estimated Apple Watch. – Therefore unofficial since the manufacturer does not disclose its sales

Android Wear? Juniper estimates the market share of the Google platform less than 10% of sales recorded in 2015, less than 1.7 million hits on Android Wear.
 

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