Samsung announced the latest watch system One UI Watch at MWC 2021 a few days ago, based on Google Wear OS, and announced the official launch of the first Galaxy Watch with One UI Watch later in the summer.
Earlier media 91mobiles received news from industry insiders that Samsung’s latest Galaxy Watch Active series will be canceled, and only Galaxy Watch 4 will be the only one. The new Galaxy Watch 4’s appearance incorporates the design of the Active series.
However, recently, another Samsung watch named Galaxy Watch 4 Classic appeared on the website of the Thai certification agency NBTC.
As you can see from the picture below, three watches have passed certification, one of which is Galaxy Watch 4 and the other two are Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.
Samsung has only teased One UI Watch, but from what we’ve seen it’s meant to act as an extension of Samsung smartphones. Not only do the smartwatch menus look more like those on the smartphone now, when a user changes certain settings on their phone, it’ll also be applied to their watch.
Samsung showed off how the integration works for blocking phone numbers and adding international clocks, though it seems like more of these extensions will materialize when the next Galaxy Watch debuts.
When a user downloads new apps from the Google Play Store to their Samsung smartphone, the smartwatch version of those apps will automatically show up on their new watch, too. Better yet, Samsung said it’s working with third-party developers to ensure compatible smartwatch versions of popular apps are available. That means we should see more apps with One UI Watch than Tizen previously offered.
Beyond smoothing out the connection between Samsung smartphones and smartwatches, developers will have more options for bringing their own branding to the Galaxy watch face library. Using a proprietary editing suite, designers can create watch face themes, align text, curate fonts and add animations.