Outlook gets Android Wear support

The latest update for Microsoft's Outlook app introduces Android Wear support, giving you greater flexibility for answering emails while on the move. The update allows you to check notifications, read new emails, and either reply with pre-set messages or use voice dictation. It's currently rolling out to Google Play so be patient if it doesn't make its way to you just yet.

Source: Android Central | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Review: Moto 360 (2015)

Text and photos Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Surprisingly light for its size, the Moto 360 feels like a quality product. I like the semicircular display as this seems to work well with many third-party watchfaces. One advantage of Android Wear is that anyone can make a watchface for the devices that support it and changing these watchfaces is super easy.

I’ve held off reviewing Motorola’s latest Moto 360 for a number of months because I’ve been waiting for Android Wear to offer something new worth covering, but seeing as how development of Google’s smartwatch OS seems to have been stunted, I will proceed to give my thought and impressions on the hardware aspect of the equation.

The Moto 360 version 2, Is a refinement of Motorola’s relatively successful wearable. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between the 2014 and 2015 variants, even the charging docks look identical, _­but they are not.

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Google Play starts showing icon for Android Wear-compatible apps

While it could be easier to browse for Android Wear-compatible apps through a link in the Android Wear application, sometimes you’re just browsing through Play Store and looking for new apps to try out. Some apps on the Play Store now show a watch icon to denote that they support Google’s wearable platform. You can see it just below the “What’s New” section and near the age rating after you tap on “Read More.” The icon shown after you tap on “Read More” has the words “Enhanced for Android Wear” attached to it. Hopefully, Google brings this soon to all Android Wear-compatible apps.

Source: Android Central

Skype introduces Android Wear support

Microsoft’s messaging service Skype is coming to your Android Wear-donning wrist. The latest app update now supports Google’s wearable platform. You can read and reply to messages right from it either by using pre-written responses or by using the voice-to-text feature. You can even draw emojis on the watchface and that app will recognize those. You can take calls from it but, of course, this’ll push it back to your phone.

Skype names some Android Wear watches that the messenger will work with including Moto 360, Huawei Watch, LG Watch Urbane, and ASUS ZenWatch. You can try it out with the other smartwatches you have though, they might be able to work since Skype didn’t say any limitations in its announcement post.

Source: Skype | Via: Engadget