Android Wear

After pretty much all of the specs leaked online over the past few weeks, Google has now officially announced the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones, and the Pixel Watch 2 wearable.

Android Wear is no more, but the software continues under a new name: Wear OS by Google. The tech giant has decided to rebrand its wearable efforts, effective immediately – in part perhaps to try and appeal to more iPhone owners and to reinvigorate a platform that had grown a little stale.

​​Folks looking for a smartwatch and not wanting to splash hundreds of dollars now have a new budget-friendly option on their hands. The latest Ticwatches from Chinese company Mobvoi offer all the functionality of Android Wear 2.0 at a price that seriously undercuts some big-name competitors.​

While smartwatch popularity may not be where the companies making them had hoped it would be at this point, smartwatch quality has steadily pressed forward in the last few years. Let's look at our six top picks, in the latest version of our Smartwatch Comparison Guide.

​In February, Verizon quietly unveiled a smartwatch of its own alongside the launch of Android Wear 2.0 in the LG Watch Style and Sport. Today, the carrier confirmed that the Wear24 watch will hit stores starting May 11.

If price is the only thing that's kept you from buying a smartwatch, Chinese smartphone-maker ZTE will soon have a new budget – and cellular-connected – option in the US, dubbed the Quartz.

Huawei's latest smartwatch comes with a sportier look, built-in GPS and 4G/LTE capabilities, and all the bells and whistles of Android Wear 2.0, but is it going to be enough to make you want to buy one? New Atlas takes a look.

Tag Heuer's first foray into smartwatch territory came out in 2015, and it's finally announced a follow-up. The Connected Modular 45 adds some new tricks, courtesy of Android Wear 2.0, and a modular design, but will cost you even more than its predecessor.

With Google's rebooted Android Wear 2.0 recently launching, we've now seen a few significant Wear smartwatch launches, for the first time in over a year. Let's see how two of those watches, the Huawei Watch 2 and LG Watch Sport, compare.

If you're looking for a smartwatch that isn't overly huge, Google and LG recently launched one that runs the new Android Wear 2.0 platform​. Read on, as New Atlas reviews the LG Watch Style.

When Google announced Android Wear 2.0​ last May, we knew standalone/cellular-connected watches were going to be a major focus. For the last couple weeks, we've been testing the first of the bunch: the 4G LTE-ready LG Watch Sport. Is this hulk of a smartwatch worth buying?

The LG Watch Style is the smaller of the two smartwatches that Google announced alongside the Android Wear 2.0 software release earlier this month. How does it measure up to Apple's latest, the Apple Watch Series 2?