Google Maps is coming to WearOS and users will be able to use it without an active connection to their handsets, the US tech giant announced during Samsung’s Unpacked event recently. The feature will be introduced into WearOS later this year. Google Maps added rich and aerial views of about 100 of the world’s most famous landmarks late last month. In June, a report said that Vodafone had partnered with Google to extend the battery life of smartwatches by reducing “talk” between the device and the carrier.
Google announced that they are bringing offline Maps navigation to WearOS in the most recent time Galaxy Decompression event. Announcement made as Samsung launched that is Galaxy Watch 5 Series During the event. The navigation feature is expected to be introduced into WearOS later this year and users will be able to operate Google map on WearOS without their phone.
As mentioned earlier, Google Maps added aerial and rich views of about 100 of the world’s most famous landmarks late last month. It combines Street View and aerial imagery along with advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a digital model of a virtual map.
With the latest update, Google Maps will also show detailed cycling routes to cyclists indicating the presence of stairs or steep hills in their direction. Along with that, location sharing on the platform is improving with the addition of incoming and outgoing notifications.
In June, Vodafone and Google’s Android team started collaborate to optimize battery life on WearOS. The mobile operator has developed an API (application programming interface) that allows apps and operating systems, such as Wear OS by Google Android, to reconfigure how they communicate with its network, Santiago Tenorio, Vodafone’s network architecture director.
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