A lot of gadgets are getting updated to Android Marshmallow, and some of you Android Wear gadget users are waiting for your turn. Some of you will be happy with this piece of news, if you’re owners of either a Huawei Watch or a Fossil Q Founder smartwatch. Both have Android Wear operating systems, and both have been updated to Marshmallow.
For the Huawei Watch, the official announcement is that the rollout for the update begins today. “The Huawei Watch update will be version 6.0, release MEC23L,” said the official announcement, and the update will bring, among other things, Android Marshmallow. Fossil on the other hand has not made an official announcement for the Q Founder, but some Redditors have already noticed the update on their watches.
Here is what will be coming with the update:
– Ability to play sounds and take calls on watches with a speaker
– Support for sending WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, Telegram, and Nextplus messages with your voice or via touch
– New gestures to control your watch with one hand
– Battery life improvements
– Language options for Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Polish, Dutch, and Thai
If you didn’t know, the Huawei Watch has speaker hardware on it, just that it has not activated it at any point before this. The update will now bring that capability, and users will now be able to take calls on smartwatches with a speaker, just like the Huawei Watch.
VIA: 9to5Google | Reddit
I noticed that my Huawei rebooted itself yesterday, 3/14. This morning when I had set a timer on it I noticed an alarm sound as opposed to the vibration that normally happens. Good deal,but Android or Huawei hasn’t really done a great job of getting the info out there. Still haven’t been able to get the speakerphone portion to work, but perhaps that is because my Galaxy Note Edge hasn’t gotten the Marshmallow update.