Will your Android Wear watch get updated to Oreo? Here’s the list of watches in line for the update

Google began rolling out the Oreo update for Android Wear last week, starting with the LG Watch Sport – a watch that never shipped in Australia. As usual, we’re all interested to see which watches will get update to Oreo – but Google has a list for that.

The update to Oreo is more a back-end update to Android Wear, but does bring new features including a new notification vibration strength setting, touch lock option for wet conditions, notification channels, battery saving background limits and support for 7 new countries/languages.

So, which watches will get it? According to the support documentation for Android Wear, these watches are in line to receive the update:

Notably it appears that Motorola isn’t updating any watches, Huawei has dropped their original Huawei Watch (it still looks great) and LG is only updating their most recent watches. Google does say in the support doco ‘For the exact timing of the update or if your device isn’t on the above lists, please contact the device manufacturer’, so you can try contacting the manufacturer, but it probably won’t help much.

Again, this isn’t a massive feature update, and some of the watches not included in the list are getting on in years. If your watch isn’t on the list and you really must have that latest update, maybe it’s time to go back to Santa and ask him about a new watch.