largely relegated to checking notifications, counting steps, and maybe measuring your heart rate from time to time
in Q3 2019 the wearable band shipments grew 65% and propably below some christmas trees
beginning 2020, one-in-five americans use a smart watch or fitness tracker, according to a Pew Research
apple released in 2019 it’s watch series 5 with built-in compass and Emergency SOS application on cellular models
google smartwatches, running wear os, without an update since rename in 2018 – need oem vender to push the mobile os – xiaomi succeed with low prices to the global leader with 27% share – huawei reached annual growth largest wearable growth of 243% – fitbit recently sold to google
what’s embarrassing with wear os is the switch to a new android device, there is no guide to reconnect, you had to erase the watch and reconfigure – some apps on your mobile device offer the option to install as extention onto the watch, but all other needs to be installed manually one by one
but the is a clever guide to use the developer option to reconnect to a new device, without the need of resetting
simply enable usb debugging, disable blueooth, connect your wearable to android studio/adb tos, execute to following
- adb devices
- adb shell “pm clear com.google.android.gms && reboot”
- adb shell “am start -a android,bluetooth.adapter.action.REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE”
detailed guide at xda-developers
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