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(Pocket-lint) – Samsung is reportedly working on new wearable devices, rumored to run Android. The Galaxy Club has claimed that Samsung is developing two devices, with the model numbers SM-R86x and SM-R87x, and they are possibly part of the Galaxy Watch Active 3 or Active 4 series.
Samsung hasn’t made an Android smartwatch since Gear Live in 2014, and at the time, it was running Android Wear instead of Wear OS. Then the company switched to its own Tizen operating system for wearable devices. But it looks like it could go back to Google’s operating system or at least some other Android-based interface, according to Ice Universe. The leaker, who has a decent track record, shared on Twitter that Samsung’s new watch “will use Android to replace Tizen.”
Don’t forget that Bloomberg claimed last year that Google is also trying to convince Samsung to ditch Bixby and the Samsung app store.
Add it all up, and maybe Samsung is starting to take the first steps back to Google. If the next Galaxy Watch uses Wear OS or a new custom version of Android, one can’t help but wonder whether Samsung will continue to develop Tizen OS or offer an equally good experience.
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We all know Wear OS could certainly use some new hardware as well.
Written by Maggie Tillman.
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