Amazon Updates App To Support Android Wear Smartwatches

Most of Amazon’s products and services can be availed through one single app that’s available for download from the Google Play Store. This consolidation means that Amazon has to come up with new features that will ensure that users don’t get bored with its app, so it has to keep the app interesting and updated. The latest update pushed out for the Amazon Android app brings a couple of improvements, apart from support for Android Wear smartwatches.

The new Amazon app for Android is compatible with Android 5.0 Lollipop. The latest iteration of Google’s mobile operating system began rolling out only recently so it is certainly about time that Amazon pushed out an update for its app to ensure that it worked perfectly well with the new firmware.

Android Wear is Google’s platform for wearable devices and already many smartwatches available in the market are based on this platform. Developers have started showing interest as well. Amazon evidently doesn’t want to stay out of the fray so it is adding a component for Android Wear smartwatches to its app.

Android Wear smartwatches can be used to voice search for products on Amazon by simply uttering the “start Amazon” activation phrase. The smartwatch component can also be used for adding items to the Amazon Wish list and even purchasing items directly, giving users yet another method of quickly making those impulse purchases.

The updated Amazon app for Android is available for download right now from Google Play Store.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Amazon, Android Wear, Wearable Tech