Tune into CNET's Google I/O live blog and show beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Thursday, May 28. So far, Android Wear watches only work with Android phones, just as the Apple Watch only works with iPhones. But iPhone support for Android Wear may be on the horizon. We don't know how well Android Wear watches will work with iPhones, but the fact that they'll work at all -- if Apple allows it -- is great news. Notifications, hopefully fitness tracking, maybe Google Now voice commands and even Wear-compatible apps would be a great start. Smartwatches should work on as many phones as possible.

The latest version of Android Wear strongfit designers tropical soul by uma prabhakar gokhale case for apple iphone 7 plus - pink/green/beige has Wi-Fi support, but it's not what you think, The watch itself is still basically a "dumb terminal" for accessing the phone, which acts as the bridge to the Internet, They can connect to each other, in separate locations, rather than just via Bluetooth, in the same room, But the phone still needs to be turned on and connected to cellular or Wi-Fi data, and the watch needs to be on a recognized Wi-Fi network you've set up beforehand, I want to see these watches communicate directly with the Web via Wi-Fi, no phone necessary, Most people assume that's what smartwatches already do, They don't, But to get these wrist gadgets to feel essential or even useful, they need to get there, I usually have my phone with me, but I want the watch to be a valid alternative..

Samsung explored this with last year's Gear S , but that watch needed its own SIM card for cell service, and had few good apps. I don't need cellular connection on my watch, but I'd like it to access Wi-Fi without a phone needing to be on somewhere. So much of Android Wear is based on Google Now, and its semi-predictive way of thrusting cards at you that may or may not be what you're interested in: weather, train times, sports scores. These cards keep coming back no matter how much you swipe them away, like gnats on a softball field.

There are many Android Wear apps, but few strongfit designers tropical soul by uma prabhakar gokhale case for apple iphone 7 plus - pink/green/beige seem to take advantage of the round display, That's also probably because the already sales-challenged Android Wear watch market only has a small subset of watches that are round, For developers to design attractive, uniquely round apps might be too much to ask, But until these watches can look better in all the supported apps, it'll feel weird to have a round smartwatch, Both Android Wear and Apple Watch have lots of apps, and many of them just aren't that great, In the case of Android Wear, many apps feel a little slow to load, or hard to interact with, Many require you to check back with your phone..

Smartwatches, as a whole, still lack killer apps. Google's improved its Android Wear apps: Google Fit finally allows basic fitness tracking and offline music playback, while annoying to set up, works. But neither is as full-featured or as easy to launch or use as I'd like. Apps shouldn't be an endless firehose: I want higher-quality apps, ones that will make the watch great. Otherwise, I'll just use it to get notifications, which is what I usually default to. It won't be long before Google addresses Android Wear once again..I hope. This time, the stakes are a little higher: now that everyone's more familiar with smartwatches, Google has to convince people they actually need one.