Will Suunto 7 get WearOS 3.0?
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An article from The Verge, it doesnât say much.
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@isazi I have a feeling that fossil is doing what most chinese companies do by trying to sell hardware vs updating the software.
I just found it alarming/odd that fossil is going that route because they have been pretty good with their updates.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 also which has more current hardware and Samsung specifically said their watches will not be able to get the upgrade. Considering they would know better than anyone at this point and the fact that the 3100 processor is even more dated I donât see it happening.
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@jeremiah-dudek that samsung exynos chip was designed to run Tizen so thatâs not a very good indicator. Iâm sure itâs missing some components needed to switch it to android.
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@eurohiker Yes, and the âmore current hardwareâ in the GW3 is an outdated 3-year-old Exynos processor. Iâm very interested to see how the new hardware Samsung puts in the GW4 holds up to the battery guzzling WearOS with that tiny battery.
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@eurohiker said in Will Suunto 7 get WearOS 3.0?:
samsung exynos chip was designed to run Tizen
⊠but is running in Casioâs new GSW-H1000 with WearOS. And with no difference in the performance. It is smooth and without any lags.
And both companies would be able to add a co-processor for the needs of the new Wear. Or a second display to save battery.
Who knows âŠ
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@eurohiker Sadly, I feel Google is going Windows Phone route with Wear OS.
Just like Microsoft cut loose their entire dwindling install base after WP 7.8 and required a new hardware to run 8.0, Googleâs requirement of new hardware for 3.0 update â if this comes to pass â will be the last nail in coffin of the platform, with Samsung playing quasi Nokia of smartwatches. Coupled with Fitbit abandoning their FitbitOS on smartwatches, itâs a double whammy. Wear OS becomes a watch OS for Samsung, who effectively outsourced itâs development to Google.
Iâm not sure offline Spotify and YouTube music will help much.
My first gen Apple Watch lasted a good 4-5 years and received many years of OS upgrades. Whoâd want to pay more than $200 for a Wear OS smartwatch thatâs get dropped after a year or two?
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Sunnto recently released the Sunnto 7 Titanium so not updating their watches to Wear OS 3 on these ⊠would be a bad move for the company⊠A lot of disappointed / angry customers. I hope that theyâve already figured it out how to keep updating these watches for at least 2 years⊠and since the hardware is similar to the regular Suunto 7s (as I have)⊠well⊠or maybe Iâm just day dreaming.
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@claudiu79 I say chances Suunto is abandoning the S7 are extremely low.
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@isazi El S7 siempre ha sido una apuesta arriesgada. Esperemos que siga teniendo desarrollo porque recorrido tiene bastante, aĂșn se echan en falta algunas cositas
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@isazi
Seems as though there is a bit of change around the original fossil comment, as some members of the reddit wear os community have contacted them to get a more âclarifyingâ response that they are still looking into it. So sounds a bit disjointed at the moment -
keep in mind that there is a difference on updating a watch and updating the OS system of the watch.
Updating the OS to a new Major version is for sure not little work
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The verge wrote that Fossil doesnât plan to upgrade its existing watches to the new Wear OS citing a cnet article. I read the cnet article and could find no such comment. Donât understand how the verge could make such a claim based on what I read.
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@aleksander-h it says it there
As far as budget options for these next-wave watches, McKelvey sees the most likely outcome being previous-year models eventually being discounted, much like Appleâs watch lineup tiers. Existing Fossil Google Wear watches wonât be upgradable to the new Wear OS software platform.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Will Suunto 7 get WearOS 3.0?:
As far as budget options for these next-wave watches, McKelvey sees the most likely outcome being previous-year models eventually being discounted, much like Appleâs watch lineup tiers. Existing Fossil Google Wear watches wonât be upgradable to the new Wear OS software platform.
Wow. Iâm blind. I read that article twice!
Iâm going to retreat now and hide for about a week until this is forgotten
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@aleksander-h I did 3 times then searched for Wear OS and read again
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@aleksander-h also
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/18/wear-os-revamp-current-models/
To my understanding it looks like Google is not done with the new WearOS stuff. I suspect that the wearOS will come with some Google watch and then later on be more open and adopted.
We are at 2021 and they promoted (again) offline music. That was there since 2014 (and they took it away)
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Will Suunto 7 get WearOS 3.0?:
I suspect that the wearOS will come with some Google watch and then later on be more
Yeah, Iâm guessing a joint launch of Samsung and Google watches (or at least very close to each other).
Whatever happens, at least we should all benefit from Spotify and YouTube Music getting offline music. Honestly, that was the most important thing announced for me. Shame there was no similar announcement for Google Podcast.