Samsung Gear Live getting Android Wear 4.4W.2 update

The Gear Live, Samsung’s one and only Android Wear smartwatch, is beginning to receive an update to Android Wear 4.4W.2. The update brings a couple of new features, most of which have been present on Samsung’s own Gear watches for quite some time. These include support for GPS (similar to the Gear S, which runs on Tizen), the ability to play music locally from the watch by pairing a Bluetooth headset (another feature the Gear and Gear 2 gained earlier), and an option to hide notifications on the watch face.

The update doesn’t seem to be widely available yet, so you will need to wait before you can start enjoying those new features. Advanced users can download the OTA file and update manually, instructions for which are available here.

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First Android 5.0 Lollipop updates should hit the Galaxy S5 in December

Android 5.0 Lollipop is coming to the Galaxy S5, and we’ve already given our readers an exclusive look at an early version running on the device. We had already said that the Galaxy S5 would be receiving the Lollipop update sometime in late November or early December, and now we have new info from our sources that says the Android 5.0 update will go live for the Galaxy S5 in December. We weren’t given a time frame though, and you should also keep in mind that it could be a month or so from the start of the initial rollout before the device gets the update in all regions.

For those unaware, Android 5.0 Lollipop is the biggest update to the OS since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It brings a new design philosophy Google has dubbed Material Design, and as we saw in the early Android 5.0 build, Samsung is making changes to TouchWiz to match Google’s new design UX. Android 5.0 also brings a ton of new features, such as lockscreen notifications, multi-user support for phones, support for 64-bit processor, file sharing through Android Beam (a feature that has been present on Samsung devices for quite some time), and lots more. It will also offer increased performance with a switch to the new ART runtime, and better battery life through an overhaul of how Android handles background tasks.

If you haven’t already, check out Android 5.0 on the Galaxy S5 in the video below.

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