Google has officially taken the wraps off Android Wear 2.0. One of the most touted features is the ability to download apps onto the watch itself, and restrict apps from installing its Wear component (like the useless Amazon app). You can install these by accessing the new Wear Play store directly on the watch, or from the Play store on the web. One big advantage of this is that iPhone users can get a lot more functionality out of the AW 2.0 watches. You can now, as suspected, run Android Pay directly from the watch (if your watch has NFC).
The overall look has been upgraded to a more material design. There is now a swipe keyboard and you can use canned responses which, together with Google Assistant, can help with well timed canned replies. Leaving work? "I'll call you when I get home" may pop up. Changing watch faces has been simplified with just a simple swipe to change. Not that "Push + hold" was all that cumbersome. Faces can also be configured with 'complications' as Apple calls them, once the app developer builds in 2.0 compatibility.
Famed 'leaker' Evan Blass was right on the money with his leak of the new LG watches announced today. The $349 Sport and the $249 Style. As suspected, the Sport features everything: GPS, NFC, heart rate monitor and cellular connectivity. The cheaper Style, well... does not. The band on the Style is replaceable with any 18MM band, but not the Sport because the LTE antenna extends into the band.
Here is the list of watches slated to get 2.0:
-ASUS ZenWatch 2 & 3
-Casio Smart Outdoor Watch
-Casio PRO TREK Smart
-Fossil Q Founder
-Fossil Q Marshal
-Fossil Q Wander
-Huawei Watch
-LG Watch R
-LG Watch Urbane and 2nd Edition LTE
-Michael Kors Access Smartwatches
-Moto 360 2nd Gen
-Moto 360 for Women
-Moto 360 Sport
-New Balance RunIQ
-Nixon Mission
-Polar M600
-TAG Heuer Connected
Source: Google
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