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By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Samsung and Google promise four and three years of updates, but it's always been unclear what happens with the final update. We're about to find out.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly From stolen tricks to cool (and terrible) ideas, watchOS 26 is an interesting foil to what Wear OS 6 and One UI 8 Watch will offer.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly With all the official and leaked info about upcoming Galaxy Watch 8 features, I suspect a Samsung Health subscription will arrive soon after.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Fusing the Galaxy Watch Classic and Ultra lineups into one design could be the right move, but the Watch 8 Classic may scare long-time fans away.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly I stumbled upon Pixel Watch 3s loaded with Wear OS 6, and tested its new scrolling, Tiles, and dynamic theming.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Google remembered that the Pixel Watch isn't just a Fitbit, making its next Wear OS update more substantial.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly A much-needed injection of excitement is coming to the stale Galaxy Watch 8 formula, according to leaked code for the upcoming One UI 8 Watch update.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Gemini and gesture controls work great in demos. In the real world, AR glasses could use a tactile alternative, and smartwatches are the obvious choice.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Versus I looked in-depth at how Samsung and Google's default watch faces compare, and it tells a surprising amount about their design approach.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Google's new step algorithm is designed for "challenging situations" where a watch normally can't track movement. Here's how it does in real life.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly It's frustrating to be told to expect a major Wear OS update, wait weeks, then find out you were never going to receive it.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly It's high time Motorola rejoined the Wear OS fold and revived that classic Moto 360 look instead of sticking to cheap squircle Moto Watches.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Sleep tracking on smartwatches keeps getting more complicated, but Google's sleep lead has even more ambitious dreams of what comes next.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Google used to release Pixel Watch updates without fail, but now it wants to slow the releases down. Here's why that could be a good thing.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly I interviewed Dr. Jacqueline Shreibati about her team's work on Loss of Pulse and the transition from 'wellness' guidance to machine-learning diagnoses.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly More and more AMOLED phones are letting you switch from eye-straining PWM to DC dimming, but only a couple of smartwatches spare your eyes.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly We couldn't be sure how OnePlus would handle Wear OS updates, given the platform's history. Now we have good and bad news about what to expect.

By Michael L Hicks Published
Wear OS Weekly Even if the OnePlus Watch 3 can't match Apple or Samsung for sales, it drew first blood in the upcoming battle for battery life supremacy.
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