After virtually a 12 months of ready, we lastly know when Google Assistant will arrive on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 lineup. Kind of. In a blog, Samsung govt vp Patrick Chomet introduced the long-awaited characteristic will arrive this summer season. As for when this summer season, it’s anyone’s guess.

Chomet writes that Google Assistant on Wear OS 3 will allow “faster and more natural voice interactions” in addition to the power to search for fast solutions whereas on the go. He additionally famous that it will even be potential to manage Spotify with Google Assistant on the watch.

An enormous cause why Samsung opted to work with Google to create a unified Wear OS 3 platform was the Google Play Store. Samsung’s smartwatches had traditionally been a method for it to push its ecosystem of services, together with its voice assistant Bixby. The promise of Wear OS 3 was that Android customers would get a better say during which apps and assistants they might use. So when you had been somebody who hated Bixby with the burning fireplace of a thousand suns, you would as a substitute obtain Google Assistant.

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The solely hitch is that Google and Samsung had been by no means very clear about when Google Assistant would arrive. In updates, each firms tended to make use of obscure allusions that may be summarized as, “It’s coming. Later.” For instance, in February, Samsung launched some new well being options for the Galaxy Watch 4 and merely famous that Google Assistant would arrive “in the coming months.” Just two weeks in the past, Verizon by chance launched an replace log that appeared to suggest Google Assistant had arrived — however that wasn’t truly the case.

The timing of this announcement makes a number of sense. Not solely has Google simply formally introduced the Pixel Watch due later this 12 months however it additionally famous that different Google providers would arrive on the Wear OS platform. That contains Google Home and Google Wallet.

Today’s announcement, whereas obscure, no less than narrows that time-frame. That mentioned, your interpretation of what counts as “summer” might not be the identical as what Google and Samsung take into consideration. Many individuals have a tendency to think about June, July, and August because the summer season months. However, when you had been to go by equinoxes and solstices, summer season 2022 is outlined as June twenty first to September twenty second. Also, on condition that the Pixel Watch is slated for this fall, it wouldn’t be stunning if we see Google Assistant arrive towards summer season’s finish. So, you’ll be able to count on Google Assistant comparatively quickly — although how quickly continues to be up within the air.