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- Samsung’s older Gear wearables won’t be supported by its 2021 smartphones.
- The units affected embrace the Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, and Gear S.
If you continue to personal and use an early Samsung Gear smartwatch each day it’s possible you’ll need to assume twice about upgrading your smartphone within the new 12 months. A notification within the Samsung Members app (through GalaxyMembership) has warned customers that the agency’s early wearables will not be appropriate with its 2021 smartphones.
“The existing service quality of older Samsung Gear wearables cannot be guaranteed and ensured through app updates alone,” reads the translated notification. “Therefore, older Samsung Gear wearables can no longer be used in conjunction with new Samsung smartphones (from the year of publication 2021).”
The replace particularly lists 5 wearables that might be affected by the information, chief of which is the Galaxy Gear from 2013. The Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, Gear S, and Gear Fit are additionally included. Those nonetheless rocking the likes of the Galaxy Gear 3 Neo and the Gear S2 stay unscathed.
It’s not all doom and gloom, although. If you continue to personal an older smartphone, “released in 2020 or earlier,” that gadget will nonetheless support the wearables subsequent 12 months. The announcement will nevertheless have an effect on you when you’re planning to buy a Galaxy S21, or every other future smartphone from Samsung.
Interestingly, the notification doesn’t recommend the explanation for dropping support is tied to Android 11 and One UI 3.0, or {hardware}. We’ve reached out to Samsung for clarification on whether or not the smartphone’s 12 months of launch actually is the one figuring out issue right here.
Regardless, if you’re contemplating upgrading to a 2021 collection smartphone, it’s doable you’re additionally contemplating a wearables improve, too. That stated, when you’re not trying to find the most recent health tech, the agency’s older smartwatches stay respectable each day drivers. But all good issues have to return to an finish sooner or later.
Samsung notes that customers of those 5 smartwatches might be alerted to the modifications within the Galaxy Wearable app within the coming weeks, so you’ve got a short interval to rethink your future purchases. If you at the moment are contemplating a brand new Samsung wearable, we spherical up your potential choices under.
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