Last week Samsung announced the Galaxy Watch alongside the Galaxy Note9. The new wearable switches from the Gear branding of its predecessors in order to make the company's portfolio of products more consistent from that point of view. Today the companion app has been updated in the Play Store to also reflect the name change. Farewell Samsung Gear app, hello Galaxy Wearable. The new version should support the Galaxy Watch, as well as work on Android devices running the latest version of the OS - namely Pie. That was one of the oversights so far, the last version of the Gear app did...
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