Viper SmartStart lets you control some of your car’s features with your smartwatch

Wish you could get more out of your fancy smartwatch? Viper SmartStart app for Android Wear and Apple Watch can help you out a bit with that. This app turns your smartwatches into a smarter device. It helps you locate your car when you can’t remember where you parked it by giving you turn-by-turn directions to get back to it. Once you locate it, it can unlock the doors for you. It can start your car remotely, lock it when you’ve arrived, and open the trunk. It can also send you alerts for things like low battery and notes and explains diagnostic trouble codes when your car gets into trouble. And yes, it can call roadside assistance if you need it. The service is compatible with almost all after-market vehicles.

Source: Viper | Via: Cult of Android

IDC: Android Wear market share expected to double by 2019

Health trackers have been popular because they focus on a singular feature, which is to track health and fitness.Smart watches have been the more elusive market because a) they are more expensive and b) marketed as fashion accessories makes them subjective.

IDC believes that Android Wear, Google's wearable fork of their mobile operating system, will double in market share by 2019. While Android Wear has been around for over a year in various devices, it has just recently exploded in the number of OEMs that are keen on making hardware to run on Google's OS.

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Android Wear update brings Google Translate to smartwatches

The upcoming Android Wear update will make it easier for you to talk to someone who can’t speak your native language. The update will have Google Translate preinstalled on all Android Wear devices, even if you don’t have the app on your phone. How does it work for Google’s wearable? You just need to speak into the watch one of the 44 supported and indicate into what language you want it translated. The app will then translate it for you and then you show it to the other party. He/she can then speak in their native language and have the app translate for you. As you go on you don’t have to switch the language setting back and forth as the app can detect what languages are being spoken. This new update should be arriving in the coming weeks when Android Wear 1.3 launches.

Source: Droid Life

Microsoft bakes in Android Wear capability of OneNote into main app

Taking one app you’d have to download separately, Microsoft updated its OneNote app on Android to add Android Wear support. The Android Wear version of the app lets users view notes from the wearables and add new ones via voice command. There doesn’t seem to be any difference from the way OneNote Android Wear app worked before, this time, as mentioned, you just don’t have that extra app with you.

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