At last! Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 owners are finally getting Wear OS 5 after months of testing

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 owners, and later users of nan Galaxy Watch 5 and 4 series, are astir to get a Wear OS 5 update aft months of beta testing.

This update for immoderate of nan best Android watches comes from a caller Reddit station (first spotted via Android Police) pinch a screencap from Samsung to a beta tester, notifying them that nan beta testing process has finished. Android Police reports that a caller Wear OS 5 firmware update should get “in nan adjacent fewer days” for Galaxy Watch 6 owners who are not portion of nan beta program.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and 4 owners tin besides expect a Wear OS 5 firmware update, though that will reportedly not beryllium disposable for different fewer weeks.

Wear OS 5 will beryllium launched, arsenic usual, pinch Samsung’s One UI Watch interface. One UI Watch 6 is nan latest type of Samsung’s mentation of Wear OS, and Galaxy Watch 6 owners will beryllium prompted to move complete via a package update.

The caller Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is already utilizing One UI Watch 6. It's receiving very bully reviews, acknowledgment to caller features specified arsenic nan Energy Score that's besides utilized by nan Samsung Galaxy Ring.

Analysis: Samsung succeeds wherever Google is struggling

Samsung has completed its testing and rollout of Wear OS 5, but Google is having a fewer problems pinch its ain operating system. While Wear OS 5 is moving connected nan Pixel Watch 3, Google has halted nan rollout for nan original Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2.

Users were reporting their devices being bricked by nan caller operating system, truthful Google is still moving retired nan kinks there.

Nevertheless, we ideate nan update will beryllium rolling retired to older Pixel Watch users earlier nan extremity of nan year.

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Matt is TechRadar's master connected each things fitness, wellness and wearable tech. A erstwhile staffer astatine Men's Health, he holds a Master's Degree successful publicity from Cardiff and has written for brands for illustration Runner's World, Women's Health, Men's Fitness, LiveScience and Fit&Well connected everything fittingness tech, exercise, nutrition and intelligence wellbeing.

Matt's a keen runner, ex-kickboxer, not averse to nan overseas yoga flow, and insists everyone should agelong each morning. When he’s not training aliases penning astir wellness and fitness, he tin beryllium recovered reference doorstop-thick imagination books pinch tons of fictional maps successful them.

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