Google has announced that the Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic will be the first smartwatches to ship with Wear OS 6.

A report claimed Qualcomm had started testing an all-new Snapdragon chip for Wear OS watches that could supercharge them.

Wear OS smartwatch users, get ready for a potential performance boost. The rumor mill is buzzing with news that Qualcomm is developing a brand-new Snapdragon wearables chip, codenamed SW6100. This silicon could be a significant upgrade, potentially supercharging the performance and efficiency of future smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS.

Smartwatches are very popular, and for many reasons. They serve the basic purpose that a wristwatch should, which is telling the time. However, on top of that, you can use them to track notifications from your phone, answer phone calls, and record all sorts of health metrics that your phone can't come to doing. They're versatile little computers.

A "credible source" claims that Qualcomm has a new Wear OS chip coming with a few key upgrades to the overall package.

Google's AI assistant lands on Wear OS 6, starting with Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8. Here are our first impressions, and what this update is bringing to your wrist.

But Wear OS 2.2. brought those with the TicWatch Pro and TicWatch C2 to the TicHealth app by default when swiping to the left, with no option to choose Google Fit instead.

Wear OS is in a sorry state in 2019. We pick up the pieces, ascertain what has gone right, what wrong and where now for the smartwatch OS.