Garmin has announced that a free Google Maps app is now obtainable for many of the firm’s smartwatches that permits you to know the place and the way far your subsequent flip is whereas strolling, biking, or working.
Not like the extra sturdy model of Google Maps obtainable for Put on OS that can be utilized to search for destinations and even navigate without a smartphone, Garmin’s Google Maps app has restricted performance, much like Google Maps on the Apple Watch. The Garmin app solely supplies fundamental turn-by-turn instructions and it is advisable find your vacation spot utilizing the Google Maps cell app on an Android smartphone that needs to be saved in vary. On the app’s listing on Garmin’s Connect IQ store, there’s no point out of assist for iPhones or iOS.
Garmin says the app will gently vibrate your smartwatch when the following flip is delivered so that you don’t should be continuously your wrist, and the app can present you your subsequent three turns by merely tapping the display screen. Your smartwatch may also proceed to document your strolling, working, and biking efficiency when you’re utilizing the Google Maps app for navigation.
The Google Maps app is now obtainable for obtain from Garmin’s Join IQ Retailer and is suitable with upwards of 90 totally different fashions of its smartwatches.