Samsung says Google Assistant will arrive on Galaxy Watch 4 this summer
Google Assistant is coming. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge After almost a year of waiting, we finally know when Google Assistant will arrive on Samsung's Galaxy Watch 4 lineup. Kind of. In a blog, Samsung executive vice president Patrick Chomet announced the long-awaited feature will arrive this summer. As for when this summer, it's anybody's guess.
Chomet writes that Google Assistant on Wear OS 3 will enable faster and more natural voice interactions" as well as the ability to look up quick answers while on the go. He also noted that it would be possible to control Spotify with Google Assistant on the watch.
A big reason why Samsung opted to work with Google to create a unified Wear OS 3 platform was the Google Play Store. Samsung's smartwatches had historically been a way for it to push its...