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Samsung's Galaxy Watch4 will support both Bixby and the Google Assistant

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Peter 04 August 2021

Samsung Smart wearables Wear OS Rumors

The upcoming Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic will be the first Samsung watches to run Google’s wrist-worn OS in a long time. And you know what that means – Google services and apps will be on board, the ones that were missing from the Tizen watches.

This does include the Google Assistant, according to leakster Snoopy. Google tends to offer its products wholesale – if a maker wants access to the Play Store, they have to install the Google apps too (which often leads to duplication).

And even though Samsung struck some kind of special deal with Google, which allowed it to customize Wear OS, the Assistant will be onboard alongside Samsung’s own Bixby (which we saw in the leaked teaser videos).

Samsung's Galaxy Watch4 will support both Bixby and the Google Assistant

On Tizen watches, Bixby is activated by long-pressing the bottom button. On Gear OS watches, the Assistant is activated by long-pressing the crown. Both can also be voice activated, but this long press business will have to be resolved somehow – which assistant do you get when you long press a button? And it can’t be the top button since that activates Samsung Pay.

Ideally, users will get to pick which of the assistants is active. Also, this might mean that Google is open to allowing third-party assistants to run on Wear OS (paging Amazon), though it could be part of the special deal that Samsung got.

After some digging around in the APK for the latest Wear OS phone app, the team at 9to5Google found a reference to "com.google.android.wearable.alternate_assistant", which sounds quite vendor-neutral, so this really may go beyond Bixby.

Anyway, if you want to read more about the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 specs, head here. Also, the pricing details leaked, so you can consult with your piggy bank.

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  • Antibixby
  • kX@
  • 09 Nov 2021

I bought the Galaxy watch 4 because of articles like this. Lies about Google assistant support. Now three months of owning this watch the chances of Google assistant support seem to be fading by the day.

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  • lol
  • 0U6
  • 09 Aug 2021

don't get your hopes high, Samsung will do something to block GAssistant or most of its features somehow, otherwise not one person will use their services and they won't be happy.

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  • Smartwatchguy
  • Lxf
  • 07 Aug 2021

Agreed but, so many seem to rant about assistant in wear os. I hope they support some open source options. One can build there own instance and if you have an old rtx 1080 or better you can get some interesting performance boost hosting everything at...

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