Mobvoi outlines new Wear OS 3 release schedule for just TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra smartwatches

The farce of Mobvoi upgrading its existing smartwatches to Wear OS 3 continues. To recap, Google announced in July 2021 that it expected its partners to start upgrading their smartwatches to Wear OS 3 'in mid to second half of 2022'. The Fossil Group somewhat achieved this by rolling out Wear OS 3 to Gen 6 smartwatches in October 2022, which is still later than planned. However, the same cannot be said for Mobvoi.

As Gadgets & Wearables reports, Mobvoi has started informing some TicWatch owners that Wear OS 3 will not be ready until the summer at the earliest. Worse still, the OS update is only headed to the TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra. Reputedly, a Czech Republic-based customer received the following response from Mobvoi:

Thus, it could take until September before Mobvoi updates these two smartwatches. Inexplicably, this would leave the original TicWatch Pro 3 on Wear OS 2, despite utilising the same chipset as the TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra. Evidently, Mobvoi is focusing on finalising the TicWatch Pro 5, more details of which leaked in February.

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