Sony hasn’t jumped onboard the Android ar bwagon—yet—but at least it’s continuing to develop its own home-grown Smartwatch 2 platform. On Tuesday the company announced a number of small updates, including a tool for customizing watch faces, revisions to some key apps system features.
The customization tool allows you to drop widgets on your default home screen, much like you’d do on an Android phone. Available widgets include read-outs for the date, weather, calendar events, notifications, battery life, the alarm, any other apps created by third-party developers using Sony’s open A.
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Sony is also rolling out six new wallpapers, a calculator app (no phone tethering required), improved Gmail syncing with hsets, better user-interface experiences in the Facebook app notifications drawer. Finally, you can now set the Smartwatch 2 to no longer vibrate when Bluetooth connects disconnects.
OK, so these aren’t earthshaking improvements. But at least Sony continues to improve its humble Android-based wearable. That’s good news for anyone who’s already bought a Smarttch 2, but may be eyeing upcoming Android ar models with envy.
