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Keep the hope of Wear alive

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. Photo: Victoria Song / Gizmodo

We got pretty excited at last year’s developer conference when Google announced that it was revamping its wearables platform, especially after it was revealed that Samsung would hop on board and ditch the proprietary version of its software that it was running on its older generation of watches.

But it’s been a while since then, and now there’s only a little hope left on the horizon. There haven’t been any major Android wearable releases since the Galaxy Watch 4. The features promised on the Samsung Watch–namely, access to the Google Assistant–are still in the works. Not to mention, there’s only one session for Wear OS on the entire Google I/O schedule. I really hope there’s more to be unveiled at Google I/O 2022.