3 Android Wear Advantages Compared with Apple Watch

3 Android Wear Advantages Compared with Apple Watch. Source: www.techgyd.com

Apple Watch vs Android Wear of Google, what it is the better smartwatch operating system? Android Wear and watchOS are the two major smartwatch platforms on the market. The absence of some new competitor to enter the arena like Tizen, etc. Anyone said – it seems that the duality Apple vs Google will be repeated in the field of smart watches. Here already we offered a complete comparison between both platforms, so in this article we will focus on those differences that we found on Android Wear and the Apple Watch.

Most of them are matters primarily of software, so it’s about time that Apple will incorporate them in future updates to the next operating system (watchOS 2), even one of them has already been confirmed for watchOS 2. In any case, let’s see what’s special about Android Wear over Apple Watch.

1. Watchfaces or customizable fields

One of the most common questions among new buyers of Apple Watch is how to change or download a new watchface for the Apple smartwatch. Unfortunately, it can not. At the moment, Apple only allows you to choose between its 10 watchfaces, yes, but you have many offers, for example : extensive customization options such as colors, size of the numbers, patterns, etc.

On the other hand, Android Wear allows its users to download sphere designs that they want, so just log in on Google Play and choose among the thousands of options are already available. In addition, we can also select our own photos from gallery and change design of the dial, something that Apple has already confirmed will be in watchOS2.

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2. Always On Mode

Apple Watch maintains its off by default, but just have to raise your wrist to activate it and lower it again to turn off the screen. This may seem the ideal system at first, but there are times when you simply want to look at the clock without making an exaggerated gesture raising the wrist. For those times, Android Wear has the “always on” mode, which keeps on constantly but in a standby mode energy is to change the colors to black and white screen. Moreover, this system has also been extended to applications in Android Wear 5.1.1, so we can select, for example, Maps adopt the same system as we are not actively looking. Certainly, it is a very interesting feature.

3. WiFi autonomous

In this version of the system, the Apple Watch needs to connect to a known WiFi network. It is true that both devices can communicate on the same WiFi network if the clock is out of Bluetooth range, but Apple Watch requires the iPhone to access the Internet. Differently with Android Wear 5.1.1, which has the characteristic of being able to connect to any WiFi network without relying on your phone. This is another feature that will come in watchOS 2, next fall.