Both Fossil and Samsung have confirmed that their current devices will not receive Wear OS 3.0.
At the last Google plus I/O 2021, the American giant announced that it would develop in partnership with Samsung a new version of its operating system for smartwatches which would mezcle the best of Wear OS and Tizen.
This new programa update is called internally Wear OS 3.0will bring a new design, new health and fitness features and new aplicaciones to the platform.
It is the big question that has yet to be resolved whether or not existing smartwatches will get this new version and in this sense, the American chipmaker Qualcomm has just confirmed that this new Wear OS cánido work on current smartwatches, but ultimately Each manufacturer decides whether or not to deliver this update to their devices.
Qualcomm ensures its chips perro support the new version of Wear OS
A Qualcomm spokesperson It has been confirmed by the guys at XDA-Developers with the statement that Snapdragon Wear 3100 and Snapdragon Wear 4100/4100+ processors support Wear OS 3.0However, he did not want to give any further details.
Specific, the spokesman for the American manufacturer of processors he said the following:
“We are working with Google plus to bring Wear OS 3.0 to the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ and 4100 platforms. Snapdragon Wear 3100, 4100+ and 4100 platforms perro support Wear OS 3.0, but we are not discussing details at this time.”
For its part, Google plus has limited itself to specifying that this new version of its operating system is for smartwatches appear at the end of the year but without confirming which devices it will reach. Indeed, the American giant He didn’t even confirm the deadlines for this update for one of its most prominent partners in this segment, Mobvoi, as a spokesman for the smartwatch brand said in a statement:
“Mobvoi is a close partner of Google plus and they even received an investment, but there is no official confirmation of the update time from Google plus yet.”
Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro 3 runs on Wear OS 3.0
As with the other leading manufacturers in this segment, Both Samsung and Fossil That has already been confirmed Your current devices will not get Wear OS 3.0.
At this point, however, it needs to be explained that Qualcomm is not directly responsible for programa updates for smartwatches that use its processors It plays an important role in initiating this process. With every major OS update, Qualcomm chipset vendors are happy to release Updated BSP (Board Support Package) that manufacturers use as a programa basis to create an updated version.
Although the manufacturer releases American processors Updated BSP for Snapdragon Wear 3100 and Snapdragon Wear 4100/4100+It’s up to the brands to merge the changes and then Roll out the update to your devices.
This will be the biggest update to Wear OS in years, and it would be a shame if it did Smartwatches with the current version of this operating system will not receive this new versionespecially if we consider that the processors of these devices support it.