The first Apple and Android watches were able to take incoming alerts, messages, and notifications and display them in a cliff notes type of experience but you could only respond via Siri translations.īut all that was yesterday and today, today those with Google Wear OS, formerly Android Wear, have a lot of exciting keyboard options to choose from in the app store and beyond. In fact, until smartwatches and wear technology, in general, offered internal keyboards, these types of devices were best described as devices intended to augment smartphones and not replace them. Even those early era models and their manufacturers understood the importance for users of wearable technologies to be able to write, store, and send characters (by the way, the first Apple watches still lacked an internal keyboard). Thirty years of innovating even though those earlier watches by Seiko were pretty noteworthy in that they could do things like connecting to most computers of the era and store upwards of 2,000 characters inputted by an external keyboard dock.Īh, the keyboard dock. Yet despite these smartwatches entering the market in 1980, the entrance of true consumer-friendly smartwatches with mass appeal didn’t occur until over 30 years later with the release of the first Apple Watch generations. This is evidenced by smartwatch predecessors being around as early as the mid-1980, which is when Japanese watchmaker Seiko released their T001, Data 2000, and RC-1000 watches. While most people could never have predicted the impact mobile phone technology would have on the world (just take a listen at mid-20th century science fiction radio broadcasts and how they portrayed the ‘future’), there were certainly a few outlier innovators who saw the possibilities and got busy innovating. Whether for personal or business reasons, you'll get all the help you need from these keyboard apps for Google Wear Smartwatches. The ability to type, store and send messages through your smartwatch is one of the wonders of wearable technology.
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