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One UI Watch 5-based WearOS 4: Material You, Golf Tracking, and Health Connect integration for Galaxy Watches
WearOS 4 is the Big G Google’s upcoming smartwatch Operating System, which will amaze the Korean firm Samsung’s Galaxy Watch users as well. The Mountain giant has officially announced WearOS 4’s arrival in its Google I/O 2023 event. This upcoming smartwatch OS will be based on Google’s Android 13. It is obvious that the newer OS will bring an uncountable number of novelties with it. Let’s know about them.
Informatively, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4, and Galaxy Watch 5 series devices are the only Samsung smartwatches that are eligible for the next WearOS 4. In today’s article, we will let you know what novelties and surprises the WearOS 4 will offer in eligible Galaxy Watches. As per the reports, WearOS 4 will make improvements in the health category, specifically in golf tracking, and will bring Material You to Galaxy Watches.
WearOS 4: Golf tracking and integrated Health Connect
As per the reports, in WearOS 4, most of the changes can be seen in the health category. It has been said that this new OS will have improved golf tracking abilities. As a wearable device’s OS, it is beneficial to have health-related improvements as they will attract users towards smartwatches with this OS, including Galaxy Watch 4 & 5.
Notably, every smartwatch’s Health Services lets app developers access Wear OS sensor data in an easier and more consistent way. And in addition to the recent update, developers can access heart rate data more frequently. It also adds a new ability “automatically detect the number of golf shots.”
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The upcoming WearOS version will also let the Watch detect the size of the golf swing. And it has been possible only because of the Korean firm Samsung’s help. This is not enough for this upcoming OS, so it will introduce new permissions for accessing body sensors in the background as well.
Besides Golf tracking abilities, another noticeable change is Health Connect’s integration to Android 14. Now, Health Connect will no longer be available as a standalone app; instead, it “will be a core part of Android.” One will be able to access it through the device’s Settings.
WearOS 4: Material You for Galaxy Watches
If you are unaware, Samsung’s Galaxy Watches lack as developed Material You abilities as Galaxy Phones have. With the WearOS 4 update, the WearOS-booted Galaxy Watches will get Material You designs in them. It can be seen in the WearOS 4 Developer Preview as well that Google has brought the ultimate Material You touch in this smartwatch OS.
Specifically, Google has added an accent color in WearOS 4 that especially can be seen in the quick settings section. It is also said that WearOS 4 will let the Watch Faces report their colors to the OS via Wear Watchface API. The appreciating thing is these colors can be used by the OS in different places like buttons, toggles, icons, and texts.
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However, it seems that Material You still lacks complete implementation with the Operating System, but one thing is sure that the future update will make it Material You in WearOS even more enhanced and will allow accent colors to be changed based on the watch face.
Nota bene, as WearOS 4 will be the base of Samsung’s soon-to-be-launched One UI Wathc 5, the new Material You abilities will amaze the Galaxy Watches as well. However, only the Galaxy Watch 4, and Watch 5, upcoming Watch 6 devices can use it. As One UI itself has highly customizable abilities, WearOS 4 will add even more charm to it.
The Korean brand – Samsung has recently announced its two mid-range Galaxy smartphones – Galaxy A55 5G and Galaxy A35 5G. A new benchmark listing has a spot for Samsung’s affordable smartphone, Galaxy35 5G.
Samsung is now gearing up for its next affordable Galaxy smartphone, the M35 5G, as the reports are unvunveilhey have found a new benchmark listing for Samsung the Galaxy M35 5G.
The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380.
The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine.
This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type.
Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35.
At the moment, no specs and features of the device have been revealed or leaked. Still, since Galaxy M series smartphones usually have a bit higher battery power of at least 6000mAh, the forthcoming Galaxy M35 5G smartphone also arrives with the same battery power.
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Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices
Verizon has rolled out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices. Earlier, these devices had received the same update outside the US, but now they are gradually expanding to the US.
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers.
For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.
If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.
Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.
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Samsung rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy S23 FE devices in the US
Samsung has rolled out the March 2024 security patch to almost all devices but still needs to complete the update distribution to all eligible devices. So, gradually expanding the update to remaining devices, the company has started rolling out the update for the Galaxy S23 FE in the US.
Notably, the Galaxy S23 FE devices are getting a new update in the carrier-unlocked version with the firmware version number S711U1UES2BXBF. The update has already been rolled out to almost all carriers, including AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, C-Spire, Cellular South, Comcast, Cricket, DISH, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Cellular, Verizon, and Xfinity Mobile.
According to the official changelog, the March 2024 security patch is one of the standard maintenance updates that provides some internal improvements for the device, and there will be no visible changes available. In other words, users may experience some improvement in the functioning of devices, but it doesn’t particularly bring any specific changes for the device.
Going to the details, the March 2024 security patch includes more than 40 fixes, 37 of which are provided by Google and address the issues found in the Android OS, while 9 more features are introduced by Samsung that enhance the performance of Galaxy devices exclusively.
Suppose you are using the Galaxy S23 FE in the US. In that case, you can update the devices to the latest version by following the simple steps: first, go to the system settings, tap on the software update, and tap on the download and install button; if it shows a new update available, tap on the download button.