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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by domain.com hey what's going on guys a marketing sanghun from TechnoBuffalo and in today's video we'll be showing you guys what's new in the Android wear 5.1 update at the time of making this video the LG watch urbane is the only device with Android wear 5.1 but the update should be rolling out in the next few weeks to other Android wear devices Android wear has always been a great companion to your Android smartphone but ain't road where five point one brings that to another level adding a few new features designed to make users less reliant on the phone in their pocket one of the new features here is the addition of Wi-Fi this means that even when your watch is out of Bluetooth range you can still communicate with your SmartWatch via Wi-Fi the only caveat is that not all Android wear devices using the Snapdragon 400 processor have a Wi-Fi antennas so don't expect the original G watch or the Susan watch to receive this feature the Moto 360 on the other hand despite being based on a TI OMAP 3 chip which doesn't have a built-in Wi-Fi chip will still get Wi-Fi because Motorola added one separately smart move Motorola smart move another feature that was introduced in Android wear 5.1 is the addition of emojis for example you receive a text message you can either use your voice to reply similar to previous versions of Android wear or draw a single emoji to reply back if you want to be able to mix words and emojis together you'll still need to rely on your phone to do so drawing on a tiny screen can be a bit troublesome but Android wear there's a pretty good job of recognizing my horrible drawings and converting into an actual emoji it's fun and reminds me a bit of what you can do on the Apple watch this update also brings new gesture controls so you can simply flick it a risk to scroll through different cards on your home screen I think it's a nice addition although I don't know how often I'll be flicking my wrist back and forth to go through my notification cards it's much easier to just scroll and navigate the old-fashioned way and that's what a finger swiping down from the top of the watch brings a new look to Android wear you'll be able to toggle the three different notification profiles for your watch and phone toggle theater mode enable brightness boosts and access the settings swiping left from the watch face will bring up your apps that are installed on your watch another swipe to the left will pull up your favorite contacts and another swipe to the left will pull up Google now and a list of different actions you can activate using Google now another new feature in Android wear 5.1 is ambient mode which essentially phase the screens to you black and whites you preserve battery life there's not a huge number of apps that offer this function just yet but among the ones that do work like Google keep seem to work really well hopefully in the coming months we'll see more apps receive this feature as it'll help a ton saving battery life Google also added the ability to set up a lock screen in Android wear to help protect your watch when you're not around setting it up is fairly easy you can set up a lock screen pattern to unlock your device just as you would on your phone the lock screen feature activates automatically once you take the watch off your wrist and it's an even better utility to have on while your watch is charging out of plain sight so friends or family can't snoop around while you're away let me stop the video real fast and thank our friends over at domain.com it's the place to go when the next great idea hits you so one-stop shopping for all your domain names and web hosting email needs domain want to hook our fans up with a pretty cool offer save 20% on domain names and web hosting if you use the coupon code TechnoBuffalo it's all one word in caps at domain coms check out Android wear 5.1 is a big upgrade for Android wear the new features like Wi-Fi support and ambient mode are features that further grow the platform who wouldn't want to say battery life on a device that could only last one whole day also the ability to use the watch via Wi-Fi is a neat addition to I don't always have my phone on me and Bluetooth connection isn't as great as Wi-Fi so the ability to use the watch using just Wi-Fi is great one thing I do want to see is iOS support for Android wear Google i/o is creeping up at the end of May so hopefully you will see a big announcement there anyways thank you guys so much for watching and if you guys enjoyed this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and we will see you guys in the next one