rewrite this title Wear OS finally achieved its potential in 2024

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rewrite this title Wear OS finally achieved its potential in 2024

Wear OS Weekly

Android Central mascot Lloyd wearing a Galaxy Watch and Pixel Watch

My new weekly column focuses on the state of Wear OS, from new developments and updates to the latest apps and features we want to highlight.

Three years after Samsung and Google announced their Wear OS partnership to save Android smartwatches from mediocrity, I’m happy to state the obvious: the gambit paid off, and Wear OS in 2024 was stronger than ever.

As a relative newcomer to Android watches, I wasn’t around for this dismal pre-2021 era of Wear OS watches. When I looked back at editorials from old Android Central editors, I saw years of complaints about sluggish performance, mediocre fitness features, a stagnant app ecosystem for developers, and a general feeling that Google had no idea what it was doing and that Tizen, Fitbit, and Garmin offered better Android watches.

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