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Google is all set to launch two new smartwatches next year. These watches will be flagship devices and both of them will run Android Wear 2.0.

Android Wear is Google’s take on a smartwatch OS. As the name suggests it links with Android and allows you to use some of the apps from your phone on your smartwatch.

More Info Coming On CES 2017
Google officially announced the new Android Wear 2.0 and the two smartwatches today. They did not detail much about the watches themselves saying that more info will be revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show 2017. Baselworld trade show will also feature new announcements regarding these smartwatches.

The new smartwatches will not have the Google or Pixel branding. They will instead feature the manufacturer’s branding, whose names weren’t shared. Jeff Chang, product manager of Android Wear at Google likened the smartwatches to the Nexus smartphone line in terms of collaboration with other manufacturers and end goals.

They aim to launch the new smartwatches in order to attract more manufacturers towards Android Wear 2.0.

Android Wear 2.0 Features and Release Date
Speaking of Android Wear 2.0, the platform will include upgrades over the existing Android Wear. It will be able to run apps on the smartwatch itself rather than using the phone to do the heavy lifting. It will also support Android Pay and Google Assistant. The Pixel phones featured the same Google Assistant AI.

Existing Android Wear smartwatches will be able to upgrade to Android Wear 2.0 once the update drops. Not all devices will be able to upgrade but according to Google, most of the recent ones will be able to do so.

Android Pay may not be available on some of the watches after the update. This is because it requires NFC and not every smartwatch with Android Wear has it.

Android Wear 2.0 will work with iOS but the functionality on Android and iOS will be different. Android Pay will be available on both however.

The new smartwatch OS drops in January with the final developer preview.

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It hasn't been since a long time ago Android 7.0 Nougat's legitimate overhaul took off. Today, Google has discharged Android 7.1 Developer review for testing out its new OS.

For the present just the Nexus/Pixel telephones have the new OS accessible for them.

New Features in Android 7.1 Nougat
Presently for the elements in the new form. There are fundamentally 4 noteworthy new components that will be accessible in variant 7.1.

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Assets for making Circular Icons (Similar to the ones on Pixel telephones)
Application Shortcuts (like Apple's 3d touch)

Application engineers can now make utilization of assets for round application symbols to make their application symbols seem to be like the ones on Pixel telephones. They not just look tastefully satisfying, they likewise fall superbly inside the limits of Google's Material Design.

The application alternate ways work simply like Apple's 3d touch works. You long push on a specific application on your homescreen and a rundown will show up of various alternatives to use for that application. It is important that "long-squeeze alternate routes" were accessible in Android for a long time they simply weren't actualized framework wide in stock Android. They additionally were somewhat unique in relation to the ones that will be accessible at this point.

Where to get Android 7.1 Nougat
Android 7.1 designer see is presently accessible and can be gotten to by those joined on the beta program. This will redesign your telephone to an indistinguishable adaptation from the new Pixel telephones. You can agree to the beta from here.

The designer review is certain to have bugs and different issues in it. This is on the grounds that the designer review is the beta form and not the official adaptation. Make certain to join knowing the dangers connected with utilizing a beta OS/programming.

Restricted to a Select Few
A chosen few like LG V20 and General Mobile 4G will likewise be running Android N. The vast majority of the enormous name producers are still out on the upgrade for the time being. Following up on the Google's declaration of the new Pixel telephones in particular the Pixel and Pixel XL, Google reported that the two telephones will run Android 7.1 rather than the 7.0 that alternate telephones were utilizing.

This gave the telephones an edge over different Nexus gadgets and the various Android telephones essentially. Official overhaul for the Android 7.1 is still not in sight will at present take a month or two to turn out. In the interim you can get a preference for the redesign by means of the Android beta program.