BlackBerry today announced new updates for its BBM for Android, iOS and BlackBerry 10 messaging platform. Among the new features is support for Android Wear smartwatches. “This update gives users even more control over the BBM experience by adding new personalization and privacy options.” said Herman Li, SVP BBM Software Development. “By tailoring the update to take advantage of platform […]
Android Wear
Android Wear 5.0.2 begins rolling out to smartwatches
The Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update is (albeit slowly) starting to land on smartphones and tablets. Android Wear smartwatches are now also starting to get the same attention. Reports are trickling in that a number of smartwatches, including the LG G Watch R, Moto 360 and Samsung Gear Live, have received the update. The report adds that Android Wear 5.0.2 does […]
Pebble adds Android Wear compatibility in Pebble Firmware 2.9
Pebble may be hard at work on new devices and a platform that promises to be “unlike anything else used on smartwatches to date” but it has not forgotten about the original Pebble and Pebble Steel. It is continuing to enhance its Pebble smartwatch. The latest firmware, version 2.9, adds Android Wear compatibility. “If you can do it with Android Wear, you can […]
Android Wear shipments top 720,000 units in 2014
Google unveiled Android Wear almost a year ago but the first devices powered by it only began to reach customer hands in the fall. By the end of the year, market research firm Canalys reports that 720,000 Android Wear devices had shipped out. In comparison, the overall smart wearable bands topped 4.6 million units last year. Volumes were not only […]
Huawei readying new wearables including first smartwatch
Specific details may be slim but Huawei gave the media a glimpse into 2015 product roadmap earlier today at its headquarters in China. Not only will the company expand its device portfolio to include new smartphones and tablets but it plans on offering a number of wearables including its first Android Wear smartwatch. Huawei will place particular focus on “premium” as the […]
CES 2015: BBM for Android Wear coming to smartwatches
From its beginnings as a BlackBerry-only instant messaging platform, BlackBerry’s BBM platform has now extended its reach to a wide range of mobile devices including ones powered by Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Next up for BBM will be wearables. At CES 2015, BlackBerry today announced that BBM is making its way to Android Wear smartwatches. “BlackBerry is committed to […]
Don’t rule out Android Wear coming to iOS
The relationship between Apple and Google is not the friendliest out there but that has not prevented the latter from making a number of services and apps available to iOS users. Currently missing from that list is the relatively new Android Wear but that could change at some point in the future. In an interview with Huffington Post UK, Android […]
Google announces first major Android Wear update
Given that we heard yesterday that Google had begun to push Android 4.4W.2 out to the LG G Watch yesterday, today’s announcement by Google that Android Wear is getting an update should not come as a surprise. But Google also announced new availability details for the Sony SmartWatch 3, the first Android Wear watch to include a GPS sensor, and […]