Huawei Watch 2, Casio WSD-F20, ZTE Quartz receiving Android Wear Oreo update

referring to Oreo for Huawei smartphone Watch 2 disables Android Pay in regions other than US and UKIf you are a Huawei smartphone Watch 2 owner (in non-US/UK region) who uses their watch to make payments out of Android Pay, you might need to avoid the Oreo upgrade (if not installed already). Over at Reddit, a lot of users are confirming which the upgrade has disabled the Android Pay feature for them. Google is saying Android Pay for Wear was never obtainable for regions outside of the US and Britain (their official documentation too says that), but the fact of the matter is the feature was working perfectly fine on Nougat, and people were using it. Manually enabling Android Pay with searching for it in the google play store is reportedly a workaround, but it's a cumbersome process, especially considering the fact which you'll have to keep doing it because the feature gets disabled after a while. Source | Via

Huawei Watch 2, Casio WSD-F20, ZTE Quartz receiving Android Wear Oreo update

The list of Android Wear smartwatches which are supposed to receive the new Android Oreo upgrade is quite long. Some of the wearable devices on which list have already received the update, while others ought get it very soon.Today, Google confirmed which 6 smartwatches are this time getting the long-awaited update: Huawei smartphone Watch 2 , Casio WSD-F20, Casio WSD-F10, Polar M600, ZTE Quartz and Mobvoi Ticwatch S & E.All these smartwatches were part of the premier list of wearable devices pursuing the Android Wear Oreo (8.0) update, but not in the first wave of smartwatches to receive it. Only 5 smartwatches were upgraded to Android Wear Oreo the time the upgrade was announced: Fossil Q Venture, LG Watch Sport, Louis Vuitton Tambour, Michael Kors Sofie, and Montblanc Summit.In the meantime, lots of other smartwatches got the update, including the LG Watch Style, Misfit Vapor, Nixon Mission, TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 , Fossil Q Founder 2.0, Fossil Q Marshal, Fossil Q Wander, Michael Kors Access Bradshaw, and Michael Kors Access Dylan.If you own any of the 6 smartwatches which are this time receiving Android Wear Oreo, you ought check for the update. Keep in mind which this is a staged roll-out, very it might take some time for the upgrade to arrive on all wearable devices.

Huawei Watch 2's Oreo upgrade disables Android Pay for users outside the US and UK

as mentioned in According to users on reddit, the upgrade appears to disable the Android Pay application on watches which are outside the US or UK, even though Android Pay works in several other countries, including Australia and Canada. Canadian consumer 401InvalidUsername says which Google's response to the removal was reportedly which "Android Pay for Google Wear has not launched outside of the US/UK." Of course, Android Pay has launched outside the US and Britain — in 15 other countries, in fact — even if Android Pay for Wear hasn't. One could even claim which Google has not exactly been very transparent about the fact which the availability of Android Pay for Wear is not the same as the availability of Android Pay in general. If someone already used their smartphone to pay with Android Pay where they live, they could reasonably assume which they'd too be enable to use Pay on any watch which supports it.

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