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The next Android Wear will bring watch-to-watch communication

2015-07-14
what's up brian Tong here with all your google Isha's it's everything google that we can pack inside of a show let's jump in and the latest report from phandroid says we can expect a whole lot more from Android wear now their sources claim the next update will include a new direct watch to watch communication and new interactive watch faces a new feature currently called together will allow users to send messages images and stickers or emojis directly to other Android wear watches yes now there's no confirmation that sending your heartbeat or making drawings like the Apple watch is part of it yet the googs is also working on interactive watch faces that would allow you to tap on it to change the face so that it delivers additional information to you think of it like cycling through a list of options with a tap a tap could show you your current fitness levels or something like more details about the day's weather alright we talked about the new google glass enterprise edition last week we know the explorers edition for consumers has been squashed and according to a 925 google report google is currently planning to distribute the device exclusively through their current glass for work partners they aren't planning to bring it to the consumer market anytime soon and adding a 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi band support is one of the improvements to help with better quality video streaming for the current workplace applications now Google's partners will be loading their own proprietary software on the devices in addition to the new benefits of a larger prism display and an intel atom processor that brings better performance and improve battery life I'll write a report by the information says Google's next manufacturing partner for the new Nexus phone will be hallway Google is known to switch around between partners every year for each new phone and Huawei would be the first Chinese manufacturer to make a pure Google smartphone reports also say they're working with Google to bring the Google Play sort of China which is very restrictive developers have been able to upload apps to sell internationally but in many instances Chinese consumers aren't able to download them so this could help open up the app market overseas also google recently released the second developer preview of Android M over the weekend and you can get if you want to check it out at developer.android.com it's currently only compatible with the Nexus 5 69 and the Nexus player but some of the improvements that you can check out include the best one enabling the new landscape default launcher that was available to tablet but wasn't even available on some phablets it also includes a new app drawer that brings back a more traditional four column view and you can scroll up and down in a letter will pop up on the side to show you where you are alphabetically and there's a new layout for widgets as well you'll have the ability to quickly delete a screenshot if you don't like how it looks before it saves to your library and there's new storage and memory settings that you can tweak along with other subtle changes now the official release for Android am is expected sometime around September this year and finally galaxy note 5 fans will be getting good news sooner rather than later after a Wall Street Journal report says Samsung is planning to move the launch of the note 5 forward from sep tember to August to get the device on sale ahead of apple's typical September iphone launch recent earnings reports continue to show samsung smartphone profits falling as smartphone sales overall are also slowing alright that's going to do for this week's show you can always email us at google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you guys next time for some more of that delicious google ishes
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