Is there a future for full‑Android watches?

because the digitizer at the time is very thin glass and not glued to the display it broke very quicklly like in 2 week because the digitzer crack

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I’m not surprised. I have no interest in AI on a watch personally.

It makes no sense to me and how I use a watch.

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yeah just use home assistant with your ai connected to the assist agent works very well

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Yep, if you need it - that’s the way to do it.

Ha ha ha :joy::joy:

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My home is wholly on Google Home ( more than135 items ) and i have not encounter this bug in my country. May be just a buzz information for some regions with Matter protocol for some items…

All good things come to those who wait.

Good luck :upside_down_face:

Yes, and i’m waiting for a new good full-Android watches… :melting_face:

135 ? That could be a world record

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Jolly good.

We are all waiting for that :grin:

Mind you, if you think a good Android watch needs to have Google services…. You will be waiting for a very, very long time… Around 10 years maybe. :joy:

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I dont look at the world record, i just use it at the max.. :grin: But let’s come back at the subject : Future- full-Android watches.

Yep, the future is good for Full Android Watches. Thank goodness. :+1::+1:

The future of full Android watches with Google certification is non existent. As I have explained many times. Basically, if you can use the Google eco system without certification (which is what exists now) then you will be fine. If you can’t, it’s not going to be a reality.

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Waiting ? Actually my old watches ( DM101 A10 and Lemfo Lem 16 ) drive very well my Google House even by voice with Assistant, if a future Android watch can’t do that so i will buy a smartphone… :wink:

I think it’s not especially a question of Google certification but a question of good Google services integration, even some Chinese smartphones are not certified but works well on Google…

Yep, that’s pretty much right.

But newer Android its not so simple as A7 or A8. And to be honest, more new Android is coming and soon the old versions will be obsolete. Android 9 should be ok though. If you can find them.

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Almost all the posts above are valid. Just a different perspective on needs, availability, and priority of features.

Was going to write a post “Size matters” and explain how pulling on it has done nothing for 45 years…

We still need the db that I tried to make in a spreadsheet so many years ago. I was ignorant of the work it would take. And life happened.

So my requirements?:slight_smile:

Completely flashable…ie no bricked state (like my allpp 9 has been in for the last couple of years).

Small…I do not want people looking at me and gravitating to my phone. Sure at one point I wanted a truck that would turn girls heads. I have learned…at this point my life needs me to look professional but ordinary. A 1.9” watch (that lates A13) will never look good on me.

Why Bill? You cannot use a 1.39” model like you use your phone. I don’t want to.

It’s all software except (when it’s hardware). I, you, or AI could code a window manager that listens to the accelerometer and pans across a bigger virtual screen. This is not new…been done for years in X11. Wait quarter centries.

So how do we get manufacturers to tailor to what we need/want. Ie define a market so that each users “perfect watch” is available somewhere.

Still interested in a Kronos Blade as I want transfective. Would be nice with newer HR/O2/… sensors.

Do I care about A< 9 != 8.1 > 9? Not really. I use microg (really just use no google) and fdroid. I can add an old repo and get 10 different versions of every app type I want. I do not need new. Google needs you to worry about new so they can sell more garbage landfill.

What I do need is what I want: small screen, transflective, gps, decent sensors, I dont care about cell, full android, fully unbrickable…now throw in things like 100m water protection, wearability, …

No manufacuter wants me to have that…upgrade? no buy new. Not use google? How will I track you.

With the way China makes, rebrands, resells, disappears, stops, does not have flashibility…

We need a db so every user can find their watch.

Oh and a wiki with the ability to “versionize” pages ie so “fixing lokmatt appllp 9 is done this way” can be a static bit of info not buried in a stream of consciousness forum. (which I do like…but is hard to find info in).

Perhaps I will get fired and be given the 80 hours to wrap up: forum+wiki+sw repo+device database+research time to fill in / update that db.

I am a dreamer.

Bill

I have the exact opposite need of you about a new Android Smartwatch : prefer a big screen ( almost 1.9’ ) and the ability to have Google system and Apps ( Assistant, Agenda, Maps, etc… ). In resume a smartphone into a watch…

there are even largr watch with square screen available now
google is the worst enemy of smart watch

Yes i know there is large smartwatches on the market and i practice them since more then 10 years, they have juste a little old Android system ( A10 or 11 ). Dont see why Google is the worst enemy, personaly i think very easy to command them by voice ( place call, sending sms, command GH items, etc.. ), it’s just the my opinion and my way to use my watch..

the same reason to not have google and to have lower android
battery is everything for android watch

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