Google Maps is coming to WearOS and customers will be capable of use it with out an lively connection to their handsets, the American tech big introduced throughout Samsung’s Unpacked occasion not too long ago. The characteristic will likely be launched to WearOS someday later this 12 months. Google Maps had added aerial and immersive views of round 100 of the world’s hottest landmarks in direction of the tip of final month. In June, a report acknowledged that Vodafone joined arms with Google to increase the battery lifetime of a smartwatch by lowering the “chatter” between the machine and the community.

Google has introduced that it’s bringing offline Maps navigation to WearOS through the newest Galaxy Unpacked occasion. The announcement comes as Samsung launched its Galaxy Watch 5 Series through the occasion. The navigations characteristic is predicted to be launched to WearOS someday later this 12 months and customers will be capable of function Google Maps on WearOS with out their telephone round.

As talked about earlier, Google Maps had added aerial and immersive views of round 100 of the world’s hottest landmarks in direction of the tip of final month. It combines Street View and aerial photographs alongside advances in laptop imaginative and prescient and synthetic intelligence (AI) to supply the digital mannequin of digital maps.

With the most recent replace, Google Maps can even show detailed biking routes for cyclists indicating the presence of stairs or steep hills of their course. Along with this, the placement sharing characteristic on the platform is getting enhancements with the addition of arrival and departure notifications.

In June, Vodafone and Google’s Android workforce began collaborating to optimise battery life on WearOS. The cellular operator developed an API (utility programming interface) that permits apps and working programs, akin to Google Android’s Wear OS, to reconfigure how they impart with its community, stated Vodafone’s director of community structure Santiago Tenorio.