Samsung app confirms Galaxy Watch 3 hand gestures, fall detection, and more

Earlier today, Samsung released the Galaxy Buds Live Plugin app to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, confirming a few new features about the Galaxy Buds Live. Just a few hours later, Samsung released the Galaxy Watch 3 Plugin app. On the surface, the release of this plugin doesn’t reveal much information, but I decoded the APK’s resources to unearth a few new and exciting features coming to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3.

The first and most interesting new feature is support for hand gestures. In particular, clenching and unclenching your fist can answer a phone call. If you get a phone call, just clench your fist and then unclench, and the watch will answer the call. Because the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 has a speaker, you’ll be able to take the call on the watch itself as well. If you are getting a phone call you don’t want to answer, you can just shake your hand to ignore the call.

Another new gesture is related to screen capture. Taking screenshots isn’t new functionality on the Galaxy Watch smartwatches, but the way to take them will be changing on the Galaxy Watch 3. Previously, you would have to hold the bottom button while swiping left at the same time to take a screen capture. Now, Samsung is just letting you press both side buttons at the same time to take a screenshot.

A great health and safety feature that Samsung is adding is fall detection. Fall detection on the Galaxy Watch 3 will work in a similar manner as the current SOS mode. When you fall, the smartwatch will ring for 60 seconds. If you don’t respond, it will text your location and a 5-second sound recording to your emergency contacts. There is also an option for placing an SOS call when you fall. For this, you will need to enter your own emergency contacts.

Along with these new features, I was also able to find all the default watch face options that will come with the new Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. A few of these actually include the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 20 wallpapers. A gallery with all the new watch faces is shown below.

All of these new features are great additions to Samsung’s smartwatch lineup, and we can expect a bunch more to be unveiled with the release of the new watch next month. The Galaxy Watch 3 is expected to be announced at Samsung Unpacked on August 5th, and we should expect it to be available for sale shortly thereafter. I’m personally very excited about the new Galaxy Watch 3 and everything else rumored to be announced at Samsung Unpacked on August 5th. You’ll be able to watch the unveiling on Samsung’s YouTube channel, but we will, of course, cover the launch here at XDA.

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YouTube Music is now available on Android TV through the YouTube app

Google is slowly but surely getting ready to shut down Play Music and YouTube Music is the replacement for better or worse. The company has been adding features to bring YTM up to speed with GPM, but there are still plenty of ways in which it lags behind. Android TV support is one of those, and Google has solved this in a strange way.

Rather than launch a dedicated YouTube Music app for Android TV, Google is baking it into the existing YouTube app. A server-side update has added a new “Music” tab to the sidebar of the YouTube app on Android TV. This tab includes the typical YouTube recommendations along with content from your Music account. It’s not an ideal implementation.

The tab shows your likes and playlists from other users, your mixes, genre and mood stations, your own personal playlists, artist stations, and recommended playlists. However, there’s a lot that is lacking due to the YouTube app not being a music player. Background playback is not available, meaning you can’t leave the app. There’s no shuffle or repeat options or toggle to switch between audio and video. You can’t do any managing of your playlists. No access to your full library or uploaded music.

Unsurprisingly, a video app isn’t great at being a music player. Honestly, you’re better off simply casting YouTube Music from your phone to your Android TV. Hopefully, this implementation is just a hold-over until a full standalone app is released.

YouTube for Android TV (Free, Google Play) →

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Source: Android Police

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Samsung app confirms the Galaxy Buds Live will feature active noise cancellation

Samsung has an event coming up on August 5th and we already know the company plans to announce 5 devices. It’s widely assumed that one of those “devices” will be the Galaxy Buds Live (lovingly nicknamed “Beans”). The Buds Live have leaked numerous times, but now Samsung itself has confirmed a few details in the Galaxy Buds companion app.

We first saw the Galaxy Buds Live (then thought to be the “Galaxy BudsX”) back in April. Since then, we’ve been treated to numerous leaked renders of the earbuds in several colors. This isn’t even the first time we’ve gleamed information from an official Samsung app. However, the most recent “leak” is a pretty big slip-up from Samsung.

The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live companion app is now live in the Google Play Store. This firmly confirms the name of the earbuds and it also solidifies the rumors of active noise cancellation. We’ve expected the Buds Live to have ANC from the beginning, but now we can actually see the option in the Settings to enable or disable the feature.

The app gives us a few more details about the Galaxy Buds Live as well. There’s a screen with instructions on how to put them in your ear, a Bluetooth connection tutorial, equalizer options, touch control settings, and a “Find My Earbuds” tool. The equalizer can be tuned to “normal, bass boost, soft, dynamic, clear,” or “treble boost.” Touch controls include the ability to block touches and customize the touch and hold gesture.

If we didn’t have enough confirmation about the Galaxy Buds LIve before, we certainly do now. Tune in to Galaxy Unpacked on August 5th to see the full reveal.

Galaxy Buds Live Plugin (Free, Google Play) →

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Via: The Verge

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Need to Host Video Calls? This Course Will Make You an Expert Microsoft Teams Admin

Over the past few months, video calls have become the primary method of communicating with our coworkers. On a small scale, setting up calls is relatively easy. But when you need to hold large meetings, things get trickier. The Microsoft Teams for Enterprise Administrators Course helps demystify one of the most popular platforms, with 18.5 hours of easy-to-follow tutorials. Right now, you can get the training for just $19.99 at the XDA Developers Depot.

Even if you don’t have to work from home, using Teams is a smart move. According to Microsoft, companies who switch to this software make decisions 17.7% faster than before. Little wonder that many recruiters are looking for project managers who really understand video calling.

This course helps you acquire such knowledge. Through 60 concise tutorials, you learn how to deploy and manage Teams in any workplace.

This includes everything from scheduling meetings and setting up calls to sharing content with coworkers. In addition, the training looks at governance, security, and compliance — all important details you need to get right. 

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