Android Wear Now Works With the iPhone, but Just Barely
The newest Google and LG Android Wear can work with the iPhone now.
There are three main things that Android Wear for iOS will do for iPhone users: display app notifications, serve as a fitness tracker and tap into Google Now, Google’s Siri rival. The app notifications that’ll show up on Android Wear watches are the same notifications that show up on an iPhone’s notifications shade, such as alerts for phone calls, text messages, emails and any other info sent from apps installed on the phone itself. There’s little interaction with the notifications, too. They can be viewed and dismissed, but you can’t, say, get an alert for a tweet and respond using the watch. Instead, you’d have to pull out your iPhone for that.
None of the third-party Android Wear-compatible apps will be able to talk to the watch, since they require an Android phone or tablet. The only Android Wear apps that will appear on a watch paired with an iPhone are those that are built into the watch, like Hangouts, Gmail, Google Calendar and the fitness tracking Google Fit app. What Google Fit keeps tabs on is fairly basic by smartwatch standards, including steps, walking, running, calories burned and heart rate.
So if you have a Apple device and a Android device, the Android Watch solves all of your problems instead of having to buy one of each (Apple watch and Android watch).
There are three main things that Android Wear for iOS will do for iPhone users: display app notifications, serve as a fitness tracker and tap into Google Now, Google’s Siri rival. The app notifications that’ll show up on Android Wear watches are the same notifications that show up on an iPhone’s notifications shade, such as alerts for phone calls, text messages, emails and any other info sent from apps installed on the phone itself. There’s little interaction with the notifications, too. They can be viewed and dismissed, but you can’t, say, get an alert for a tweet and respond using the watch. Instead, you’d have to pull out your iPhone for that.
None of the third-party Android Wear-compatible apps will be able to talk to the watch, since they require an Android phone or tablet. The only Android Wear apps that will appear on a watch paired with an iPhone are those that are built into the watch, like Hangouts, Gmail, Google Calendar and the fitness tracking Google Fit app. What Google Fit keeps tabs on is fairly basic by smartwatch standards, including steps, walking, running, calories burned and heart rate.
So if you have a Apple device and a Android device, the Android Watch solves all of your problems instead of having to buy one of each (Apple watch and Android watch).
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