Believe it or not, the maintenance and support of the Samsung Galaxy Gear has been active since 2013.
In truth, just as Samsung is resuming the Android base for its smartwatches after announcing the merger between the Wear OS and Tizen platforms, the truth is that we won’t stop getting bad news, such as: B. Started not updating the Galaxy Watch that already existed. Previous models or the last known and that is The first Samsung watch with Android Wear ends its support In the coming weeks.
And that’s it, my friends, in case you didn’t know There was a time before when Samsung offered watches with the Android system before moving to the Tizen platform, which it controls more cheaply and on which it could better integrate its Samsung Health services or other innovations such as the famous rotating control panels. Nevertheless, Tizen never had a base of aplicaciones in the Galaxy Store That made us consider it an option for the future, so the new Watch UI built into Wear OS is definitely a better option.
Anyway, let’s not get sidetracked because we came here to talk, just like our classmates told us to Android authorityof which already confirmed End of Android aplicación support for the first generation Galaxy GearLaunched in 2013, so already eight years old and still actively maintained.
All Record in a voracious industryit’s lightning fast and nobody’s waiting, not even Android Wear back in 2013 when it was in its infancy, forcing Samsung to go for Tizen in 2014 Allow Galaxy Gear users to migrate to this new operating system completely free of charge and with a 100% official installation package.
That is exactly what Samsung wants from every usuario who still keep and use their Galaxy Gear, and the thing is, the watch was so good that many still use it daily and will expire on August 5th from the Galaxy Store aplicación store Samsung is ending support for anyone not migrating to Tizen continue to use their first-generation smartwatches.
Strange that the movement was made like this now Samsung has returned to Google plus’s shadow in this the outfitbut No wonder given the age of these devices and this way of using the system, we want to introduce complexity and diversity to the after-sales support of this Galaxy Gear.
Samsung will end support for Galaxy Store services on Galaxy Gear smartwatches on August 5 and is urging its users to migrate to Tizen if they want to continue using the watches from their proprietary platform as usual.
of course the change a clock reset is implied, resulting in data loss and also the absence of some applications that are not available in Tizen, although the truth is that since 2014 everyone has had enough time to prepare and that Samsung does not kill the device but only asks its users to migrate to a platform who does that It will maintain its support even after the launch of the new Wear OS already integrated in Tizen.
Having kept the services alive during these 8 years in the Galaxy Gear with two active and parallel platforms, It continues to espectáculo us Samsung’s commitment to basic support for its devices even after a reasonable lifetime, although we’ll see in the future how to behave with all common watches which, as said, will not carry over to One UI Watch.
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