{"id":136942,"date":"2015-09-01T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=136942"},"modified":"2015-09-01T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:30:40","slug":"android-wear-devices-now-work-with-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/136942-android-wear-devices-now-work-with-iphones.html","title":{"rendered":"Android Wear devices now work with iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android Wear for iOS is here, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/android-wear-now-works-with-iphones.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google has announced<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Only the LG Watch Urbane is supported for now, but Google said all future Android Wear smartwatches &#8211; including those from Huawei, Asus, and Motorola &#8211; will support iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of supported Android Wear devices can pair them to their iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, or 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 or later.<\/p>\n<p>With the app, the following information can be pushed from an iPhone to the watch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Notifications <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0See information such as phone calls, messages, and notifications from mobile apps.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fitness tracking <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Set fitness goals, and get daily and weekly views of your progress. Your watch automatically tracks walking and running, and measures your heart rate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smart help <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Receive tips like when to leave for appointments, traffic info, and flight status. Say \u201cOk Google\u201d to ask questions like \u201cIs it going to rain in London tomorrow?\u201d or create to-dos with \u201cRemind me to pack an umbrella.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More gadget and smartphone news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/136874-wena-wrist-sony-is-crowdfunding-a-new-smart-watch.html\"><strong>Wena Wrist: Sony is crowdfunding a new smartwatch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/136456-samsung-gear-s2-shown-off.html\"><strong>Samsung Gear S2 shown off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136706-pay-for-android-apps-with-telkom-airtime.html\"><strong>Pay for Android apps with Telkom airtime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/136688-heres-when-apple-will-unveil-the-new-iphone.html\"><strong>Here\u2019s when Apple will unveil the new iPhone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has extended support for its Android Wear platform to iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17934],"tags":[36,24152,947,1982,691,1125,383,29174,943],"class_list":["post-136942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-android-wear","tag-asus","tag-huawei","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-lg","tag-lg-watch-urbane","tag-motorola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136998,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136942\/revisions\/136998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}