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Wear OS 7 Brings Android 17’s Key Feature to Smartwatches

Real-Time Updates and a fresh widget experience are the highlights of Google’s newest smartwatch enhancement.

Key Information

  • Wear OS 7 introduces Live Updates for deliveries, sports scores, and ride monitoring directly on smartwatches.
  • Gemini Intelligence on Wear OS 7 will enable users to automate processes straight from their watches.
  • Wear OS 7 also features a consolidated workout tracking system and promises an improvement of up to 10% in battery life.

In addition to revealing a series of updates related to Gemini and providing our first comprehensive glimpse of Android XR smart glasses, Google discreetly launched Wear OS 7 during Google I/O. Updates for Wear OS over recent years have mostly been incremental, but Wear OS 7 is finally delivering some genuinely beneficial enhancements for Android smartwatches.

A significant new feature is Wear Widgets. Google is moving past the older static Tiles system and rolling out a more adaptable widget experience for smartwatches. These widgets will accommodate various layouts, such as 2×1 and 2×2 card designs.

Another key enhancement arriving with Wear OS 7 is Live Updates from Android. Similar to what is seen on Android mobile devices, these updates will present continuous real-time data directly on your smartwatch for food deliveries, ride tracking, sports scores, and much more. Google first unveiled this concept on Android phones last

ODROID-H5: $250 Intel Core i3-N300 SBC with 10GbE Networking & Four M.2 PCIe Slots

ODROID H5

Hardkernel ODROID-H5 is an affordable Intel Core i3-N300 octa-core Alder Lake-N SBC providing a 10GbE RJ45 networking jack, and four M.2 PCIe slots for storage, wired/wireless networking, or AI accelerator expansion. It relies on the same SoC as in the earlier ODROID-H4 Ultra SBC, but trades a single PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 slot and four SATA ports for four M.2 slots, and upgrades from dual 2.5GbE  to single 10GbE. It still features four USB ports, but only one USB 3.0 port, and three USB 2.0 ports. ODROID-H5 specifications: SoC-  Intel Core i3-N300 CPU – Octa-core “Alder Lake-N” processor @ up to 3.8 GHz (Turbo single-core) or 2.3 GHz (Turbo multi-core) with 6MB cache GPU – 32EU Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.25 GHz TDP: 7W System Memory – Up to 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM memory Storage Up to 4x 2280 NVMe SSDs via M.2 slots (See Expansion section) eMMC flash […]

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