Smart watches have become indispensable accessories for the lives of all users, reaching the point where most users use them on a daily basis. Counting on this popularity, manufacturers began to release a huge number of proposals throughout the year.
Just a few days ago, we got to know first hand about the new watch from Samsung, which is an interesting device both from an aesthetic point of view and from the point of view of its characteristics. This watch isn’t the only one to see before the end of the year as rumors about the Pixel Watch become more and more constant..
Beyond the manufacturers, what makes these devices useful is their technical characteristics, such as the applications they support. Whatsapp is one such application, the latest novelty is quite interesting in general, since Calls from this messaging app arrive on smart watch.
Yes, you read it right. WhatsApp will allow users of these devices to make calls between them. Of course, there is a slight downside, which is that it will only be available for smartwatches running the Google operating system. We talked about how only Wear OS watches will be able to access this feature.
This is the situation, at least for now. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising if this changed as the way these WhatsApp calls work using smartwatches is improving. Also, for now, the feature will arrive thanks to a new beta that WhatsApp has launched over the past few hours..
The most interesting thing about this is that thanks to 9to5Google, the watch was tested with operating systems other than Wear OS 3, and, to everyone’s surprise, this feature worked. The tests were carried out with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and then with the Galaxy Watch 5.
In the first test, the WhatsApp logo is displayed on the received call, which makes it easy to determine that the call was received by this means.while on the second device the call looks like it was made by the phone network of the device and there is no whatsapp type indicator.
The tests were done because Wear OS 3 watches are still scarce, although a few watches like Google’s are expected to be released in the coming weeks.. In addition, in these tests, it was also noticed that WhatsApp calls cannot yet be made from watches to mobile devices.
Source: Computer Hoy
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