First look at Wear OS without Samsung’s 'One UI Watch'
Wear OS 3 is expected to make its debut on non-Samsung smartwatches sometime next month. Until then, we still haven’t seen what Wear OS is supposed to look like without Samsung’s hand in the picture. Remember, Google collaborated with Samsung to power Samsung’s new smartwatches with Wear OS 3 – though it was buried underneath Samsung’s One UI Watch skin.
Reddit u/amoledwatchfaces posted screenshots of Wear OS 3 as seen from the Android Studio Emulator that developers use to test apps. The screenshots show the new smartwatch OS without Samsung’s skin over it.
Screenshots of Wear OS 3 from Emulator
The UI does look cleaner, but it doesn’t appear that there’s any drastic difference. Aside from larger, curvier buttons and more colorful icons. Menus look cleaner and more visually straightforward.
Screenshots of Wear OS 3 from Emulator
With Samsung’s latest smartwatches, Google collaborated to bring Wear OS 3 to these smartwatches before any other Wear OS maker could get a change – which sounds kind of unfair to third-party OEMs that made Wear OS smartwatches from the start.
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Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 18 Dec 2021
- mp4
Google should let Samsung do all their ui stuff on phones,tablets and watches they do a much better job of adding features and making them look good,stock android is fugly
- GREGZENG
- 16 Dec 2021
- P%S
Not mentioned, but extremely important, is that Wear OS 3 is a very new operating system. So it is immature, like most new things. Design and apps after not yet polished. There are not many applications, yet. All this is very normal, and to be expect...
- Smartwatchguy
- 15 Dec 2021
- Y7A
Interesting! Always thought people used apps and the OS was just a platform to run apps. Yes, tweak it to your use when you get the device but, once that's done you install updates or uninstall apps and that's the only interaction with the ...
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