Diving deep into Put on OS 5 Developer Preview reveals a few neat options coming to future smartwatches. Maybe the primary one to characteristic them is the upcoming Google Pixel Watch 3, scheduled for an August announcement.
The 2 most notable options in query are UWB and Bluetooth LE Audio. The UWB connectivity has been urged in stories previously, which might doubtless permit safe telephone unlocking and extra correct location monitoring of the telephone and the watch. So long as the telephone helps UWB as effectively, after all.
The Bluetooth LE Audio half is one other characteristic that is not available on smartwatches and the Pixel Watch 3 is perhaps the primary one to supply it. It is a Bluetooth protocol initially designed for IoT units needing Bluetooth connection however with out draining the battery an excessive amount of. In spite of everything, sensible wearables and IoT units have tiny batteries. Nonetheless, Bluetooth LE alone cannot carry audio knowledge, so smartwatches use the protocol only for connecting together with your telephone.
Bluetooth LE Audio assist will permit the wearables to connect with your headphones and stream music. Furthermore, the protocol is able to connecting to a couple of system concurrently and streaming music. Primarily, folks utilizing their smartwatches for music streaming on the go will enormously profit from the BT LE Audio protocol as it might protect battery life.
Although we nonetheless have not seen any smartwatches supporting the protocol, there are a handful of earbuds and headphones that transmit over BT LE. We simply want the smartwatches now.
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