the new galaxy watch 4 release date has pretty much been confirmed
leaked images are starting to surface and more details on the next big version of google's
wear os have started to surface but how is this going to affect older wear os devices
and indeed older galaxy watch devices let's talk about that
what's up guys welcome back to techit easy a little bit of a galaxy watch 4 news update for
you today but before we jump into that if you could quickly leave a cheeky like subscribe to
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would be awesome links down below so the galaxy watch 4 release date in case you missed it last
week a rather cryptic tweet appeared stating that the galaxy watch 4 and active 4 will be released
early august alongside the zed flip and the fold 3. there were rumors about a july release date but
as i said at the time i was doubtful that that would happen as it would leave less than a year
between the release of the galaxy watch 3 and the new galaxy watch 4. what we may in fact see
in july or indeed end of june being tomorrow is a lot more information and possibly a first look at
the galaxy watch 4 and active 4. dropping tomorrow is the mwc event where samsung is expected to show
off the new version of wear os and perhaps show off the galaxy watch 4 and active 4 in
full so do look out for that i will most likely post something in the discord server about that
so make sure you've joined to stay up to date also on that subject there have already been
some leaked images of the galaxy active iv and the galaxy watch for however on a lot of blogs people
are saying that this is the galaxy watch 4. to me this looks very much like an active watch and
i really really hope that this isn't what the galaxy watch is going to look like i will post
all of those leaked images in the discord server so you can have a quick look through but i don't
really want to put them in the video yet because i'm not too sure how i feel about them if this is
in fact the design of the new galaxy watch 4 this is a huge change from what they normally go for
and it actually takes away from the classic watch style that samsung have usually followed
now for the main focus of the video what is going to happen to older tizen devices
and indeed wear os devices there's a lot of articles floating around suggesting that older
wear os devices are going to get left in the dust here and there will be no backwards compatibility
this at least to my knowledge isn't true at all devices running on the newer snapdragon 4100 chip
and 3100 chip respectively should be able to make the leap to wear os 3.0 no problems so
that means some of the latest fossil watches and the brand new ticwatch e3 i reviewed last week
should all be fine but funnily enough companies such as moby and fossil appear none the wiser when
it comes down to compatibility apparently they're just as in the dark as we are if i was to make a
guess i would say support for older versions of wear os will continue for a while and watches
that have the capacity to make the upgrade will be able to do so can the same be said for tizen
though with wear os you'd simply be updating your software something that happens quite commonly but
with tizen you'd be moving on to a whole different platform so will this make the galaxy watch 3 and
older galaxy watch devices useless again i had a guess i'm going to say no i'm pretty certain that
support will continue for the galaxy watch and galaxy watch 3 for some time and i'd like to think
at the very least the galaxy watch 3 will be able to make the update and to be honest if it does it
could see gains in battery life because of the better optimized ui potentially making it a more
appealing buy for those of you looking to save some money when the galaxy watch 4 is released
and to be honest it will make the galaxy watch 3 feel like a whole new watch the move to wear os is
big and it could potentially shake up the market a little bit since there is a clear divide amongst
apple tizen and wear os bringing samsung watches to tizen will only close that gap putting more
pressure on apple and it may even force them to make their smart watches compatible with android
in the future but if history has anything to say about that apple will most likely stand their
ground currently end of q1 2021 apple accounts for 33.5 of the smartwatch market tyson is eight
percent where os 3.9 and fitbit 3.7 the rest is held by huawei a maze fit which actually holds
4.2 percent of the market currently then garmin and all the other lesser known watch brands
now why did i mention fitbit well google actually acquired fitbit not too long ago
and if they end up pushing their wear os to fitbit this is another point to google not to mention
bringing some of the much-loved fitbit features to wear os essentially bringing the best bits
of three different operating systems to make one super os to rule them all if they pull this off
it could be absolutely huge if we add the three point seven percent of the market fitbit holds to
the wear os at three point nine percent and ties in at eight percent we're now looking at something
like this fifteen point six percent of the market would now effectively be dominated by where os
still only half of apple but the walls are closing in the release of something like the
much rumored pixel watch could close that gap even more just some food for thought for you if
you were a little bit worried about the move to wear os all i'm saying is there's definitely some
positive to take out of this and it is a huge huge move so that's it for today's little update really
i will most likely be back next week with an update for you after the mwc event dropping
tomorrow so if you did enjoy the video please do leave a like subscribe to the channel and
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