Android Wear supports voice calls, update coming soon

Google announces the new update of the Android Wear platform that will bring with it, among other things, support for voice calls with smartphones equipped with speaker. also extend gestures and improved support sending voice messages.

Google has recently made official the new update of Android Wear that presents itself as one of the major issued for the wearables platform of Bigg. The home of Mountain View fills a gap rather significant that, until now, did not allow the Android Wear SmartWatch to compete on equal terms with the competition represented, first, from Apple Watch. The reference is to support voice calls.

With the new update of Android Wear, currently under deployment, the Android Wear devices with built-in speaker can make and receive phone calls using Bluetooth’s connectivity (and, of course, the connected smartphone). In addition, you can listen to the audio/video messages in applications such as Glide.

For obvious reasons, it is essential to own a smartwatch Android Wear Speaker, the fact that, for the moment, the choice narrows to Huawei Watch and Asus ZenWatch 2. In the future, probably, thanks to software change to the Android Wear platform, hit the market a greater number of models with built-in speaker.

Support for voice calls is the most important innovation of the new Android Wear update, but not the only one. Google continues to carry on the work of improvement of the forms of interaction with the smartwatch, introducing new gestures. While it is already possible to scroll through the tabs with a simple twist of the wrist, the new update expands further the instruments of control: it is now possible to expand a card, call up the app and return to the home with a push, a lift or a shake.

The third and last novelty worthy of mention concerns sending voice messages via apps like Google Hangouts, Telegram, Viber, to get to the popular and widely WhatsApp client. It will be sufficient to impart, for example, the command ” Ok Goole, Send WhatsApp message to X: See you soon. ” Not just a novelty, because it has the potential to accelerate a task which otherwise requires exclusive use of the smartphone thwarting the convenience of the smartwatch.

The innovations described above will be made available in the coming weeks with the progress of the distribution of the update process began, formally, in recent hours. The distribution will be carried out in stages, with so different timelines for individual models.