Google Android Wear smart watches are displayed during the 2015 Google I/O conference. (Photo : Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
The Microsoft Outlook app has been in Apple Watch since last year, and now, it is available on Android Wear smartwatches. Previously, the idea of reading an email on one's wrist seemed impractical as looking at the wrist was usually for checking on time only and the smartwatch could be the last device one wants to read and manage email on.
However, as smartwatches started to flood the market, evolving into nearly mini phones that can be accessed sans the actual smartphone, checking emails on the wrist does not appear like an awkward move anymore. The email apps on the Apple Watch have proven some people are already using their watches to manage emails.
There is not much a smartwatch can do alone, but the wearable can become a useful gadget when it has a lot of application software. Fortunately, developers pay attention to the market and slowly add support for the iOS and Android devices. The choices for email apps on Android Wear are not many, and Outlook is among the best third-party options that can be a big win for users.
Microsoft's Outlook has been considered as among the best email apps available right now. With Outlook on iOS and Android, users will be notified with new emails which they can scroll through existing items on the app, and can reply by tapping on pre-set messages or by using voice dictation. It can be a simple but useful app on the Android Wear, according to Android Community.
With Outlook on Android Wear, people need not reach for their smartphones to check and manage their emails as they can already see them from their watches. Microsoft Outlook landed into iOS' Apple Watch in August and now the popular email app is introduced to Android Wear through an update dubbed as "Outlook for Android" which raises the app's version number to 2.0.57. The changes of this update are intended for Android Wear support only, Betanews has learned.
To get the support of Android Wear, users can update Microsoft's email app on Google Play and check if it is already available, since the rolling out is gradual. The news about Microsoft Outlook coming to smartwatches run by Google's Android is on the video clip below:
