Review HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear S3 in 2016

Review HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear S3

The Samsung Gear S3 is on the manner, and because of HERE WeGo it guarantees to be one in all the foremost complete wearables nonetheless.

HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear S3 packs in even a lot of practicality than its forerunner. It offers a comprehensive mapping expertise with places search and route designing by automotive, on foot and by transit.

Tamer Nassif, a senior engineer manager accountable for development at HERE, tells North American country a lot of regarding HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear S3.

“We have a good partnership with Samsung, we have a tendency to develop all the placement assets for his or her Tizen OS. We’ve developed pre-loaded apps for the Gear S and kit S2, and we’ve affected this forward with the Samsung Gear S3.”

“The HERE app for the Gear S3 are a standalone application to navigate cities, cities and alternative locations, and eventually it'll embrace bike navigation to induce around on 2 wheels in addition.”

HERE WeGo could be a standalone app and that’s an enormous amendment for North American country. Previous versions synched with the HERE app for robot to supply directions, however now, handler points out, HERE is building a completely freelance app that may perform the functions of each. at the side of speed, it additionally means that you won’t got to keep your smartphone synced as usually, probably saving on battery life.
Better performance and cached information

Performance from HERE WeGo ought to be a lot of spectacular, because of its ability to cache map information, and it’ll even be backwards-compatible with the older Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch.

As before, HERE WeGo can supply mapping designed to figure dead on the smartwatch’s spherical face. the power to show a map viewer is one in all Tamer’s favorite features: “I simply adore seeing a map on a watch, it’s an amazing feature.”

Creating HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear S3 was no mean exploit, with handler explaining:

“We had a really tough and tight schedule, that was one in all the toughest challenges we have a tendency to Janus-faced. Building a programme that’s extremely customisable in Tizen, creating it do precisely what we have a tendency to needed it to try to to, wasn't a straightforward method, and it’s taken North American country simply 30-45 days up to now. That’s a really short quantity of your time considering the amount of variables we have a tendency to subsume.”

With the event of HERE WeGo still in progress, we will additionally foresee to some innovative options within the close to future. Bike navigation can head to the wearable presently. “We’re additionally staring at adding offline navigation,” says handler, “we believe that wearables square measure extremely powerful if they take you where you wish to travel.”

The exertions has been well well worth the effort tho', and handler adds:

“HERE WeGo for Samsung Gear is an element of our IoT (Internet of Things) strategy. Right now, we’re AN IoT team and we’re attempting to create IoT merchandise.” which means HERE are staring at lots of alternative devices and kind factors, and that we may see even smaller bits of kit sporting location-based technology. “Wearables just like the Samsung Gear S3 square measure one in all our gateways into the IoT, and it’s important that we have a tendency to perceive the strain of tiny devices and powerless  kind factors and their location demands.”

“We’re building AN IoT device cloud at HERE that may enable North American country to use and introduce our location technology into the littlest of from factors, with the power to report location from small devices. The aim is to alter our platform to suit at intervals any device from the littlest of things to wearables, to technology with abundant higher specs,” handler concludes.

Look out for the spectacular HERE WeGo, and you don’t have long to attend – it’ll be heading to the Tizen store for the Samsung Gear S2 and kit S3 in Oct.