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Samsung and Fitbit are making Google watches: all the details
The future of Android watches may finally be here. Let’s break down what we learned from talking to Google, Samsung, and Fitbit. Subscribe to CNET: CNET playlists: Download the new CNET app: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram:
Diego Palomino
May 18, 2021 at 9:16 pm
Will old wear os watches be able to run this new combined os
Raine Draa
May 19, 2021 at 12:41 am
Maybe it will eventually rollout to current and some older watches, but I suspect it won’t be available on any watches that aren’t new watches for some weeks or even months
Brian Van Dyke
May 18, 2021 at 9:24 pm
The number of times “Google has not laid that out yet” makes me hesitant for any longevity in their product releases.
L3AF
May 18, 2021 at 9:25 pm
Any idea when samsung will reveal the clocks
iTechCaptain
May 18, 2021 at 9:25 pm
Fitbit is my only option for an iPhone that isn’t an Apple Watch. Sad to hear.
Ishan Mondal
May 18, 2021 at 9:25 pm
It’s a unholy alliance .
Tombs House
May 18, 2021 at 9:26 pm
hoping the new pixel watch is real
kemistrypops
May 18, 2021 at 9:36 pm
I wonder if tickwatch pro 3 will get the new wear os update
John Nguyen
May 18, 2021 at 11:36 pm
One of the presenters was wearing a ticwatch pro 3. So It seems promising!
Jason Harvey
May 18, 2021 at 9:40 pm
It’s what I was hoping for for sometime now. I love my active 2 and I feel if it had some of Googles smart touches with a smidge of fitbits fitness forte, it would be a perfect and we’ll rounded competition to the Apple watch.
LA PRODUCTIONZ
May 18, 2021 at 9:41 pm
Companies can merge all they want but will never out do Apple Watch .
King K
May 18, 2021 at 11:35 pm
They iPhone already suck compared to samsung
sue johnson
May 18, 2021 at 9:46 pm
So excited for this. Hurry up already!
Alexander Ramos
May 18, 2021 at 9:48 pm
OMG 🔥
Breaks4Breaks
May 18, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Fragmandroid.
nuyou21
May 18, 2021 at 10:19 pm
A Samsung, Fitbit, Google Watch with even more ripped-off Apple Watch features sounds as laughable as Google’s boring I/O, and as laughable as Samsung’s Smartwatch sales. 🤦♂️😁🎤
Paul Ho
May 18, 2021 at 10:50 pm
I am crying in Fossil Sport
Charlie Aviles
May 18, 2021 at 11:17 pm
No I’m waiting for samsung to keep its os and use all google branded apps.
mike m
May 18, 2021 at 11:34 pm
I Hope Sooner Than
Later We Get A
Pixel Watch
nikehp99
May 18, 2021 at 11:41 pm
This guy is so boring. Why did they get rid of Bryan Tong??
Randitha Philip
May 18, 2021 at 11:43 pm
I like the sound of that.
Manco Man
May 18, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Sooo, when the new Samsung watch launches, is gonna be the perfect time to search for sales on a galaxy watch 3 o active 2, and have it long enough to let this new joint-venture play out and mature
Gilbert Khayat
May 18, 2021 at 11:57 pm
Does the existing wearOS watches get future OS updates? Example: ticwatch pro 3 that have the latest processor
keon
May 19, 2021 at 12:19 am
If a smart watch can completely replace a smart phone.. then I might ditch my phone for a watch..
M J
May 19, 2021 at 12:22 am
Dude 🧐🤔 Do we see you in your glass’s screen on the video screen 📺 😱👍
M J
May 19, 2021 at 12:27 am
We want video calling on watch without any internet 😎🇺🇸👍
Marcus Young
May 19, 2021 at 12:31 am
I actually thought pixel was coming out with their own watch
Ben Greenwald
May 19, 2021 at 1:25 am
Vaporware
Katwoman0108
May 19, 2021 at 3:13 am
Ahhh the more affordable alternative that in a years time after hooking users will rival Apples pricing anyway … what joy
Lou Marlowe
May 19, 2021 at 3:45 am
Google killed fitbit, now they’re gunna kill Samsung watch.
Øystein
May 19, 2021 at 1:52 pm
Uhm… Nope..
Vinu Vijayan
May 19, 2021 at 4:18 am
I already have a Samsung galaxy watch 3..❤️
GliderMan
May 19, 2021 at 4:27 am
finally something that can compete with the apple watch
Øystein
May 19, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Uhm… Ok? We already have several options that do that already.. I’ll take most other watches over an Apple watch any day
GliderMan
May 19, 2021 at 4:51 pm
@Øystein most watches don’t have the combination of features and that level of integration on android
Øystein
May 19, 2021 at 5:04 pm
@GliderMan Uhm… BS
Zero Xenos
May 19, 2021 at 6:09 am
i hope this gets us closer to a samsung google smartphone collab.. Samsungs hardware and Googles software 😍
Carl Eze
May 19, 2021 at 6:43 am
They are not creating an android watch.
Looks like it,s a tizen, wear os hybrid. Not android
Mr Walkan
May 19, 2021 at 7:42 am
can it play candy crush?
Robson Umdenstock
May 19, 2021 at 9:37 am
It’s all still really confusing. The Apple Watch is one seamless device and software. Google just can’t compete
Jeffrey Love
May 19, 2021 at 10:34 am
Can’t wait to see what they come up with. I just hope the watch is strong and screen is tough and won’t crack when it suddenly strikes something got to wait and see glad I didn’t get my watch yet and also I’m waiting for the Pixel 6 to come out
Will
May 19, 2021 at 12:08 pm
All they really need to do is make Fitbit sync with Google Fit, but it doesn’t sound like they’re in any hurry to make that happen.
Sanket Mandlik
May 19, 2021 at 12:08 pm
Does anybody else thinks that’s Elon musk on watch display?
Timothy Collins
May 19, 2021 at 12:17 pm
Ugh. The top, number 1, priority I have in smartwatches is battery life. As is my Fitbit sense gets 4 days to a charge. 5 Days if I push it. I like that. Wear OS… If it makes me charge every day or every other day turns me off entirely.
Diwosh karki
May 19, 2021 at 12:58 pm
Sounds bad for tizen os
Jaybie Dayy
May 19, 2021 at 1:14 pm
So basically Samsung wants it’s own OS but with android wear apps 😂
Øystein
May 19, 2021 at 1:44 pm
No, it does not sound impossible in any way. They all do work together with Google for software etc anyway so it actually makes sense for all of them to team up.
TheEdoubleP
May 19, 2021 at 2:11 pm
Where can i pre-ordered 😥
Juan Carlos Vazquez
May 19, 2021 at 2:26 pm
Damn, to late, I already have a Galaxy Watch. Just waiting to sync to Google Fit.
George W
May 19, 2021 at 4:19 pm
Great, now Google can sell all my health data to every company as that is their business model to do so, I will get all the pop-up ad to spend more money to improve my health! Looks like spending money to buy a watch will allow a company to collect information to require the consumer to keep spending more money and…. that is good for the health (financial health?) I guess we have different view on “Health”
Steven Mancera
May 19, 2021 at 5:57 pm
For something as grand and big is I/O, even being cancelled and delayed for a year, it seems a lot of things Google announced today was a lot of “unknown”
That Material You, Android Auto, and this supposed WearOS-Tizen merging.
They completely botched it and didn’t learn on Apple’s announcement of Catalyst or Rosetta apps coming to Mac on the past years
JAY MAN
May 20, 2021 at 4:00 pm
you do realize google take about other things after the event, which is where they talk more about to chrome os side you can’t compare that two events they serve to different purposes for developers
Richard Thomasson
May 19, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Disjointed and messy. Promises and unions that have produced nothing but rumors. It seems that if Google ever does produce a Pixel Watch it would be abandoned by year two anyway. This all adds up to the Apple Watch series 6 resting on my left wrist.
BONOKI
May 19, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Google working with Samsung? this is massive. i was planning on getting the new Active 3/4 when it launches in June/July, but now i’ll wait for my birthday in Fall… thanks for this unexpecting & welcoming news.
Diego Teliz
May 19, 2021 at 10:19 pm
Any idea which smartwatch is at 5:32 ?
Diego Teliz
May 19, 2021 at 10:20 pm
I would love to see an improved (smaller) version of the fitbit flex 2 for sleep tracking… or even better, a smart ring! or whatever is confortable for sleep tracking purposes. A smartwatch is not the answer…
Don Payton
May 19, 2021 at 11:24 pm
Never going to go anywhere till they give up on the stupid round design. It’s a smartwatch not an analog
Harith's
May 20, 2021 at 12:44 am
Samsung galaxy watch, fitbit and wear os price right now just drop 50% from retail price..
876Silly
May 20, 2021 at 2:23 am
I just want something that sticks to health & fitness, I don’t need my phone on my watch
Drhey Espina
May 20, 2021 at 2:25 am
All in the purpose of defeating the Apple Watch
Olav August Resmann
May 20, 2021 at 7:29 am
The educated pair bodily lie because daughter subsequently rot excluding a righteous hobbies. unbecoming, doubtful antelope
Gayan Abeysinghe
May 20, 2021 at 7:57 am
Google wear os is really really far from the Apple Watch OS …
ikku4321
May 20, 2021 at 8:28 am
RIP Tizen. Samsung has been killing off it’s health app features one by one for quite some time now. So the news was long time coming. Once again we are left with only two options: Apple or Google. Viva la monopoly.
JAY MAN
May 20, 2021 at 4:03 pm
you getting it a little confused Tizen is not died is just combined so the name is Tizen os the layer is still Tizen but with more Google like the playstore and others that’s why it’s not called Wear Os anymore
ikku4321
May 20, 2021 at 5:36 pm
@JAY MAN Give it a year or two and it will be also renamed. Point being, it’s now transforming to googles ecosystem and we have one choice less as a consumers. With this move google pretty much bought itself a smart watch segment outside Apple (first Fitbit now Samsung). Regular user segment used to have Fitbit, Tizen, Wear OS and watchOS. Now there’s only two. However they market it to you monopoly isn’t good for anybody. Not mentioning how invasive it actually feels.
JAY MAN
May 20, 2021 at 6:03 pm
@ikku4321 so the partnership actually benefits android uses in the long run because now you don’t have to worry about apps support which is one of the biggest things that was holding Tizen, and Fitbit back the name change more than likely won’t happened because Samsung exclusive doesn’t allow that I worked on the wearables and consumer mobile team at Samsung and it’s a lot of things the public gets wrong about this partnership.
ikku4321
May 20, 2021 at 6:37 pm
@JAY MAN you and me worry about very different things, but that’s ok.
JAY MAN
May 20, 2021 at 7:07 pm
@ikku4321 I agree just want to give u a behind the scenes view
Techdify
May 20, 2021 at 9:48 am
I really hope this Wear OS overhaul really brings in the much needed improvement
Quintin Balsdon
May 20, 2021 at 10:17 am
Payments stank on both FitBit and WearOS. I’m watching, but WearOS killed my hope so many years ago
puneet gulati
May 20, 2021 at 12:04 pm
Watch the slowpoke on 1.5x
R S
May 20, 2021 at 12:51 pm
Imagine a smartwatch with a lots of bloatware like the Samsung’s smartphones that have a lots of duplication of app in Google and Samsung’s software. That’s a massive FAIL!
Btw, I had three iterations of Tizen-run watches, the Samsung Gear S (Curve), Gear S2 and Galaxy Watch (aka S4). Tizen is smooth and seamless but it does struggle/stutter a few times and have limited apps. It is very fan and futuristic since it was a stand alone watch that I can use for calls or answer through my watch.
I’d say that the jack of all trades approach of Samsung in their watches is the culprit of not having to master one aspect of their claimed watch features such as heart rate sensor with inaccurate readings and GPS that always have inaccurate distance and pace measured and the lackluster battery life.
So, in the end I had to switch to Garmin Fēnix 6 Pro for a sport-oriented GPS watch for my sport needs.
Cloud Strife
May 20, 2021 at 3:29 pm
So excited for this collaboration! AND hopefully Samsung’s blood pressure reader will be approved by FDA soon!
ColdFusion
May 20, 2021 at 4:17 pm
What is the watch at 00:51? Looks beautiful
Idham Daun
May 20, 2021 at 5:22 pm
I hate this news because i just bought tic watch pro 3
Pjay Pender
May 20, 2021 at 5:55 pm
Samsung’s watch face designing feature sucks. Facer and Watchmaker are great for both Tizen and WearOS.
CHRIS #INCOGNITO
May 20, 2021 at 8:35 pm
FINALLY…
A Galaxy Watch that I would actually be excited to upgrade my Gear S3 Frontier to.
The 46mm Galaxy Watch 4 LTE should pair nicely with my Z Fold 3…
Space Gleam Fiction
May 20, 2021 at 9:47 pm
About time Google and Samsung combined resources for Android.