[How to] Check if your Android Smartphone Compatible with Android Wear Smartwatches

12 September, 2014 How To

Android Wear 2015 logo

If you want to buy an Android Wear powered Smartwatch to pair with your Android Smartphone/Tablet, it's a very good idea especially with all the new features Available for the Wear platform. However, you might need to check if the Smartwatch you gonna buy will be compatible with your current Smartphone firmware/Android version.

 

Android Wear is designed to work with Android phones running 4.3 or higher. In this tutorial we will show you how to use the Official Google Wear Compatibility Check tool to see if Wear's Smartwatches will work on your device or not.

 

 

Follow these Steps:

 

1- First Make sure that the Android Device that you want to Check it's compatibility (Smartphone/Tablet); is connected to the Internet.

 

2- Open any Web browser you have it installed on your device (Chrome is preferred).

 

3- In the Address bar write this URL and open it https://g.co/WearCheck (not case sensitive).

 

4- After opening the URL, wait until it loads and check the result...

 

 

Green wear

 

If you Got a Green Phone with a Green Watch logo, this means your device is Compatible with ALL Android Wear Powered Smartwatches. Hurray!

 

 

Red Wear

 

If you Got a Red Phone with a Red Watch logo, this means your device is NOT compatible with any Android Wear Powered Smartwatches and you might need to update your Smartphone firmware or upgrade it ot a newer model with Android 4.3+ in order to get this work. Hard luck!

 

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