I look at my Gear S2 in the mornings at about a quarter past 10am and pull down the notification window to see the word “standalone.” I breathe a sigh of relief. It’s nice to make phone calls and send texts from my wrist, but my desire for a...
Are you a developer who owns a shiny new Samsung Gear S2 / S3 smartwatch? Do you want to build a simple application and deploy it to your smartwatch? Great. Let's go! But what are the steps you need to follow, beyond downloading the SDK? It is not an...
The Samsung Open Source Release Center web portal is the go-to site for downloading the source code for open source packages used in all Samsung products. That spans everything from TVs and cameras and mobile devices and printers and much more. The web portal is hosted at http://opensource.samsung.com/. To make effective...
Samsung Electronics Co have released the Tizen Software Development Kit (SDK) for the recently unveiled Samsung Gear S2 wearable device. Thanks to the early access program, over a thousand applications for the Samsung Gear S2 are expected to be available to users at launch. This is in addition to...
This was the first time that I attended the XDA DevCon conference and this event was an opportunity for me to get know the wider XDA Community, look at collaboration opportunities and also to let them know there is an alternative Operating System on the horizon for them to keep...
I won't go into the oft-repeated tirade about how Samsung had limited the Galaxy Gear smart watches to just Samsung phones; enough of that already on the Internet. It's a well-known fact, no need to beat a dead horse. But if you don't mind a couple pieces of the Gear...
Samsung has now officially increased the number of Samsung devices which are compatible with its new Gear 2 / Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit wearables to 20. It has to be noted that these are still all Samsung's own devices, which not only includes Smartphones, but also includes...
We previously reported that the Samsung Gear 2 Smart watches were available to pre-order at Amazon, well now orders have began shipping !!! You can grab the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo Tizen based Smart watches now, and begin your Tizen adventure. We do have to mention that...
At the Samsung Developers Conference at Mobile world Congress 2014 (MWC14), the Tizen based Samsung Gear 2 was officially Introduced to Developers. Anna Schaller (Sr Manager, Developer Relations Media Solutions Center, North America) was on stage to educate the audience on how they can Integrate their applications onto the Samsung...
The Tizen Samsung Wearable SDK 1.0.0 Beta 1 was released yesterday for the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo Smartwatches. Below are the direct links for the Install Manager and SDK Images: Install Manager PLATFORM INSTALL MANAGER FILE SIZE MD5 CHECKSUM UPDATED DATE Ubuntu® 32bits tizen-wearable-sdk-2.2.150_ubuntu32.bin 4.0M 7c54fc04ebef6fb7162760070c6a0524 Mar 17,...
As per usual, some features from Samsung's newest wearable are going to be added onto the older ones. This year, the Galaxy Watch Active2 will be the first in receiving some features that the Galaxy Watch 3 has. This is in-line with what has happened in years gone by with...
The Galaxy Watch LTE model has recently received a firmware update. Now, one may think 'What's changed to make the smartwatch better?' This update seems to have actually caused a bit of a problem. From feedback that we have directly received to the IoT Gadgets Team, the galaxy watch facebook...
Many of our readers are now in posession of their shiny new Christmas gifts - Samsung wearables. So, If you're new to the Tizen smartwatch ecosystem, here is a run down of your smartwatches and their user manuals ready for you to download in PDF format. Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2...
IoT Gadgets. The site was once upon a time known as Tizen Experts and covered everything about the Tizen OS. We have now transitioned to IoT Gadgets and welcome new writers to come on-board to write about tech news, IoT Gadgets, wearables, and everything in-between. We are also looking for...
A new app has been released for Samsung Galaxy watches that let you design your very own Watch Faces. This has always been one of the best features of Samsung's wearable line, literally thousands to download, direct from the Galaxy Store. The versatility of being able to change the displayed...
The Evo Select Memory card, Samsung 512GB memory card (microSD), is selling on Amazon for $99.99 instead. This is a huge price cut of $100 from its former $199.99 price tag. It has got a five star rating with 84% of the people that have reviewed it. The card also...
Back in January 2019, at CES 2019, the Asus C434 was announced by the Taiwanese company. The C434 is the successor to the quite successful C302. We have seen the device begin shipping in the UK and the US, but this was for the model supporting 4GB RAM. Today, the...
Over the years we have spoken to many talented Tizen Galaxy/Gear Watch Designers – such as Ayla Gokmen, Denis Miroshnikov, Mike Wickens, and John (Nucleon). Now, we add another Samsung Tizen watch face developer to add to this list, Chris Shomo from Infinity Watchfaces. The thing that caught our eye with...
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the LTE variants of the Galaxy Watch. It is not a big update, but brings improvements to a couple of key features of the watch, battery life and Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). The new software version is R815FXXU1DSBA for the 42 mm...
Samsung Health is quite a capable health app, but Samsung does like adding features. Now, they are working with Calm, an app designed for sleep, meditation and relaxation. The calm app has received over 40 million downloads, so, there must be something there! Samsung health itself has over 60 million...
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