HE SPEAKS, Jeff Chang surveys his
kingdom. Android Wear’s product
manager, the man most directly
responsible for the progress of Google’s
wearable platform, is seated at a large
conference-room table in Google’s San
Francisco office that is fully half-filled
with Android Wear devices. No two are
alike: seven different models, countless
colors and bands. Every color of Sony
Smartwatch 3 here, a dozen Moto 360s
there. He’s wearing an LG Watch
Urbane, and there are two others on the
table. There’s a particularly gaudy
Huawei Watch, which I can’t stop
touching during our meeting. And all
this, he says, gesturing around, is just the
beginning.
It’s been a year since Google launched
Android Wear to the public, and as
hardware partners have jumped on
board, Chang and his team have been
working steadily to improve the
platform. Today, they’re announcing
some of its biggest changes yet. The
biggest by far, the one that will quickly
change how people use their
smartwatches, is the watch’s ability to
work even when it’s far away from your
phone.
Chang says people hated that as soon as
they walked outside, or even three rooms
away, their watch stopped working.
Google’s solution is a clever hack: Your
watch can now connect to your phone
via Wi-Fi (many models already have a
Wi-Fi chip, it’s just been dormant until
now, and the watch copies passwords
and logins from your phone). As long as
your phone is on and online, and your
watch is connected to a Wi-Fi network,
they can communicate from anywhere.
Your phone’s still in charge of most
processing and information, though.
Chang says connecting a watch directly
to the internet, convenient and obvious
as it may be, would require re-
architecting everything about Android
Wear. But he smiles as he says it, and I
start wondering where the team already
working on it sits. Either way, the upshot
is powerful: your phone can be across
the room or across the world, and your
watch will still work.
Apps come front and center
There’s lots more, but let’s talk about the
most fun part first. With the new
Android Wear update, you can send
emoji to your friends by drawing them
with your finger on your watch. Pick a
contact and select “draw emoji,” then
scribble your best thumbs-up, sushi,
poop, or smiley face with a winky eye
and tongue out, and your watch will
guess which emoji you want to send.
You’re essentially playing Emoji
Pictionary with your watch at all times,
which is incredibly strange and fun. It’s
a clever, cross-app and cross-platform
way of making it easy to communicate
from a watch, but doesn’t require the
other person to have one too. You can
always dictate longer messages, but if a
picture says a thousand words, an emoji
says at least like 17.
You can draw an emoji on your watch, and then
send it via any app. GOOGLE
A few of the other new Android Wear
features feel like Google’s guesses as to
how people might use their watches
differently when their phone’s not just
in their pocket. And, just as much, to
give you more stuff to do: Chang is
intent on proving that Android Wear
isn’t “just about notifications.” Apps can
now access Android Wear’s “ambient
mode,” for one thing. They’ll run in a
reduced-power state, but force the app to
stay open and the screen to stay on. That
way, you don’t have to go find your
shopping list or directions every time
you look at your wrist.
If your hands are full, a quick flick of
your wrist will flip through the column
of cards. Or swipe in from the right side
of the screen, and you’ll see a list of your
apps, the ones you used most recently at
the top. Swipe over again, and you get a
list of contacts. Both were buried deep in
Android Wear’s menus before—you were
just supposed to use your voice to launch
apps or message someone. Google
apparently learned that people like
tapping and swiping, though, so now
there’s more to tap and swipe.
A more powerful smartwatch
It’s a big shift for Android Wear, which
has a head start on the Apple Watch
simply by virtue of coming out first, but
still hasn’t found a lot of user traction.
Chang and his team seem to be
developing a vision as they go, sussing
out what people want and delivering it.
The plan seems to run directly counter to
Apple’s vision for the Watch, which is
meant to be used quickly to do one thing,
and then reset every time you put your
wrist down. The Apple Watch wants to
be quick, simple, and unobtrusive;
Google wants Android Wear to be
powerful, useful, and self-sufficient. You
still need a phone, technically, but you
don’t need it nearby anymore.
Google I/O is coming up at the end next
month, and there will almost certainly
be more watches and more apps at the
company’s annual developer
extravaganza. Apps are more present
and more accessible than ever on
Android Wear, which Google hopes will
get more developers to build apps for
wearable devices. Oh, and I’m pretty
sure Chang’s itching to fill the other half
of that table with smartwatches.

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