Samsung Platform Review for new Google Based smartwatches programming introduced

Samsung Platform Review for new Google Based smartwatches programming introduced

Samsung has officially unveiled the Exynos W920 5nm single-chip system, which will be used in the new generation Watch series smart watches. The gadgets will be presented on August 11 as part of the Unpacked presentation.

The specs of the chipset say it will be significantly faster than its predecessor Exynos 9110. So, the CPU performance will increase by 20%, and the graphics chipset will function ten times faster. This speed will be provided by the Arm Cortex-A55 CPU cores and the Arm Mali-G68 GPU.

The new processor is capable of supporting qHD displays (960x540 pixels). The Cortex-M55 core is responsible for saving power consumption, which allows the Always-on Display option to be enabled. Among other technical characteristics, it is worth noting support for the satellite navigation system GNSS and Wear OS, the presence of LTE modules, Wi-Fi B/G/N and Bluetooth version 1.2.5. The platform uses Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging (FO-PLP) with a combination of crystal system, power control, LPDDR4 "RAM" and internal eMMC storage. This arrangement makes it possible to save the internal space of the gadget body, which can be used for high-capacity batteries.

Samsung has taken the wraps off it and Google’s new unified smartwatch platform at MWC 2021 — sort of. The company isn’t announcing a new Galaxy Watch today, or even what the new platform will be called (it’s unofficially referred to as Wear); those announcements will come later this summer at a proper Galaxy Unpacked event. But what Samsung did show off was a first look at what its new One UI Watch software will look like, and it elaborated on just what the new Google / Samsung partnership could mean for future Galaxy Watches.

The Settings menu has been redesigned to look more like the phone’s menu, and things sync from the phone: if you have additional time zones set in your clock app, they’ll be there on the watch, and blocked callers on the phone will be blocked on watches, too. Samsung also showed off a new watchface design tool, which will be available for Android developers later this year to easily create new watchfaces for the platform. It’s unclear yet if current Tizen or Wear OS watchfaces will work with the new OS or One UI Watch, but the current options have also been seriously lacking, so any new choices — even ones largely reliant on developers — are welcome.

To be clear: what Samsung is showing of One UI Watch won’t be what all smartwatches built on the new unified Google / Samsung platform look like — it’s an added layer on top specifically for Samsung devices. It’s similar to what Samsung’s One UI does for Samsung’s smartphones. The goal is a consistent look and experience across all of Samsung’s hardware and software, and so far it looks lovely.

The new One UI Watch experience is expected to first appear on Samsung wearables at a Samsung Unpacked event later this year. Given other recent Samsung hardware rumors, it sounds like this Unpacked should be a big flipping deal.

Best of all, similar to the Apple Watch, when you install a smartwatch-compatible app on your phone, the corresponding watch app will automatically install on the watch as well. You won't need to manually install anything as you currently do on Tizen-based watches, or deal with the weird on-wrist app store that has made getting apps on Wear OS frustrating. You’ll just download an app to your phone and it should appear directly on your wrist, too.

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