Summary of I/O news

[A Former User]

I was also able to enable Google Pay and card was successfully transferred (which was not possible earlier). Going to store later today and will try it out

UPDATE: Worked like a charm

[JANTIKAINEN]

Has Google listed anywhere the added countries where they expanded Gpay?
In Finland so far nothing or at least it still says to me that the service is not supported in my country.

[Sindre Svellingen]

@jantikainen United Arab Emirates, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, and Ukraine. This expansion will roll out in late May/early June.

[JANTIKAINEN]

@sindre-svellingen Thanks for this. I was looking for the list but for some reason couldn’t find it.
Really good news that Google has finally awaken in developing Wear OS.

[Sindre Svellingen]

@jantikainen Yeah, really good news. Exciting times ahead for Suunto 7/Wear OS! Now Suunto just needs to release a Suunto 7 gen 2 with the new chip and better battery

[macdav]

@sindre-svellingen
Maybe

[Sindre Svellingen]

@macdav It’s the 9 Peak. I had the 9 Baro, but fell in love with the 7. Maybe I return to the 9-line if the Peak blows my mind

[Martin Vrska]

@aleksander-h Hi, can we expect Suunto 7 to receive the new version of Wear Os?

[Aleksander H]

@martin-vrska said in Summary of I/O news:

@aleksander-h Hi, can we expect Suunto 7 to receive the new version of Wear Os?

We don’t know. No comment from Suunto so far, or any other WearOS manufacturers for that matter. We’ll just have to wait and hope

[aeroild]

@aleksander-h From what I understand, Mobvoi tweeted that their TicWatch Pro 3 running Snapdragon Wear 4100 would get the new Wear version. Later they deleted this tweet.

[Aleksander H]

@aeroild said in Summary of I/O news:

@aleksander-h From what I understand, Mobvoi tweeted that their TicWatch Pro 3 running Snapdragon Wear 4100 would get the new Wear version. Later they deleted this tweet.

I’m guessing there might be some joint announcement coming from Google specifying the devices that get the update, and none of them are supposed to say anything before then

[Jamie BG]

@aeroild
Not surprised that they did, as if there are watches that will not get it, I suspect it would be the non-low power coprocessor chipped watches i.e. anything on a 2100/4100 chip; as a lot of the features re the system update that were discussed seem to be what suunto has already done on the 3100 with the suunto 7, which suggests that there shouldn’t be a reason for a 3100 watch not to get, especially as the 3100 & 4100+ coprocessor chips are essentially the same (4100+ low power core has some additional boosts on the graphics side of the chip).

[Aleksander H]

I had to laugh when they mentioned that the new version of wear would allow 24/7 heart rate tracking and sleep tracking while still providing 2 days battery. S7 already does that! Makes you wonder why Google didn’t get round to it sooner.

[A Former User]

@aleksander-h said in Summary of I/O news:

I had to laugh when they mentioned that the new version of wear would allow 24/7 heart rate tracking and sleep tracking while still providing 2 days battery. S7 already does that! Makes you wonder why Google didn’t get round to it sooner.

It’s funny how Google is always lagging behind. It’s like they wait for some good idea or something to be done and then they do it few months later.

[Jamie BG]

Really interesting post that pretty much confirms what I have been assuming:
“Whether those existing devices get upgraded or not, will be a function of a few different things. It will depend on whether the hardware itself can support the upgrade, and it will be a function of whether the OEM chooses to do the upgrade,” said Kilburn.
For those of you who don’t know who Bjorn Kilburn is: Director of Product Management, Wear. One would hope that he knows what he is talking about.
This was provided by CNET (a proper journalistic report, so much better than the hords of click bait assumptions littering the web about the future of wear): https://www.cnet.com/news/google-samsung-are-combining-to-reboot-android-watches-with-a-dose-of-fitbit-too/
Please read the full article - definitely worth the read.

[Jamie BG]

on an interesting side note, according to CNET we should benefit from new apps:
“Google’s apps for Wear OS are also getting updates. A new Google Maps will work without a phone on the new Wear OS watches. YouTube Music is getting an offline music mode for watches, and so is Spotify.”
Direct quote from the article but journalist’s assumption/thought (possible may have been told that), can’t see attribution to a direct quote from google, but makes sense based on how current wear os platform works.

[A Former User]

Google Pay got disabled, again, and now when I enabled it, it says it hasn’t launched at my location yet

So now is to wait for official and final release…

[Jamie BG]

@metalmi I believe there isn’t too much of a wait - from what I have heard its May/June, and as we are almost done with May…

[JANTIKAINEN]

Did anybody get Google Pay working yet, apart from countries where it has already been supported?

[kurko]

@jantikainen

I think we have been quite patient waiting for this. This was one of my purchase criterias for Android watch back in early 2020. Might very well sell the S7 and go back to S9 family as Google is not fixing these