Google Gemini comes to Samsung's older Galaxy Watches
The new Watch8 series models marked the initial roll-out of Gemini AI on WearOS, and Google promised to expand to more smartwatches running Wear OS 4 or newer.
The only catch for Samsung watches is that you'll need a Galaxy Watch that's running the very latest One UI 8 Watch interface on top of Wear OS. As reported by SamMobile, the Gemini AI app is available to download on older Galaxy Watches, but it does not seem to replace the older Google Assistant on devices running versions prior to One UI 8, at least for now.
Samsung already kicked off its One UI 8 Watch beta for Galaxy Watch5 and Watch5 Pro units so we should see the Galaxy Watch6 series and Galaxy Watch7 also updated in due time.
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