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Last updated: May 11th, 2023 at 01:45 UTC+02:00
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One UI 5 Watch will be accompanied by an upgrade to Wear OS 4 from Wear OS 3, and that will bring its own new features and improvements that will be applicable to all watches that get Wear OS 4, not just Samsung's. And Google has detailed some of those features today at the Google I/O conference, where it also launched its competitor to Samsung's foldable phones.
As it did with Wear OS 3, Google has teamed up with Samsung for some of the Wear OS 4 features, including the ability for developers to create custom and more complex watch faces and for users to edit their favorite watch faces right from their watch. Wear OS 4 will also bring full support for Gmail and Google Calender.
Furthermore, Wear OS 4 will add the option to connect a smartwatch to a new phone without having to perform a factory reset, which is a feature folks have long desired to see on their Samsung Galaxy smartwatches. And Wear OS 4 will also bring improved battery life, though Google hasn't revealed what kind of battery life improvements we're looking at.
Google has released a developer preview for Wear OS 4 that developers can download right away. Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 owners in the US and Korea will get to try Wear OS 4 and One UI 5 Watch through a beta program Samsung will launch sometime this month. The first stable version of the new software, meanwhile, will debut on the Galaxy Watch 6 in July/August.
Abhijeet's writing career started with guides for custom firmware for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. In addition to phones and mobile devices, his interests include gaming on both PC and console, PC hardware, and spending countless hours on YouTube watching videos on tech, movies, games, politics, and internet dramas.
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