Saturday, September 6, 2014

Google's first Android Wear update will bring GPS, offline music playback

Google's first Android Wear update will bring GPS, offline music playback   As promised Google is supporting its burgeoning Android Wear smartwatch platform with its first update rolling out in the coming months.The search company announced the first update will bring offline GPS support and offline music playback to wearables running its smartwatch OS.Firstly smartwatches with built-in GPS sensors such as Sony's SmartWatch 3 will track your distance and speed when you go on a run. There's no official word whether GPS support include turn-by-turn direction or display a map that tracks your position, but it seems like one of the obvious uses for smartwatches. Read more >