here are the first connected watches that will be entitled to the unified operating system

We know the name of the first connected watches that will receive the update to Wear OS 3. These are the TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, TicWatch Pro 3 Cellular / LTE, and TicWatch E3 from Mobvoi. The other models will have to wait until mid-2022 before taking advantage of the unified operating system.

On May 18, Google and Samsung created the event by announcing the merger of their two operating systems for connected watches in one, called Wear OS. Users have been waiting to see the best of both worlds on their devices ever since. According to several sources, it is very likely that the future Galaxy Watch 4 will be the first watch to natively embed the new OS. It could be presented during the Unpacked event of this August 11.

But Wear OS 3, its real name, will also land as an update on existing models. Until now, Google has you the names of the first watches that will run on the OS. Today, the Mountain View firm unveils the long-awaited information: it is about TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, TicWatch Pro 3 Cellular / LTE, and TicWatch E3 from Mobvoi. She adds that the next manufacturer’s watches will natively offer Wear OS 3.

Wear OS 3 will only land in 2022 for other smartwatches

The only other information Google is leaking is about upcoming Fossil watches “Later in the year”. These will not ship Wear OS 3 natively like the Galaxy Watch 4, but will be “Compatible with the update”. This is all the meager details that the firm kindly provided us on the subject. For the rest of the watches concerned, the update will be done on a case-by-case basis. According to Google, the process will start around mid-2022, or in a year.

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“For the previous generation of Wear OS smartwatch, an update of the system to Wear OS 3 will provide many new experiences, and in some limited cases, the user experience will also be impacted”, Google explains. “The extent of the changes to Wear OS 3 will also require updating and resetting your smartwatch to the state it was in when you received it (‘factory settings’).”

Source: Google