Mobility Minute: Samsung Upgrades Wearables With Three Business User-Friendly Features

Fitness, music, games – these are the use cases that are often associated with wearable devices. But thanks to innovation in devices like the Samsung Galaxy Gear, wearables are increasingly becoming business productivity devices.

’[When] we started in this business category, we were really going after form and function,’said Samsung Vice President of Mobile Product Marketing, B2B, Eric McCarty.

’We've really expanded that approach now [and] that allows us to position this device to a business customer.’

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Samsung Galaxy Gear can now operate in stand-alone mode so users do not have to have a smartphone. Users can customize applications specific to their business, and the Gear can also be managed from an MDM perspective.

Looking ahead, Samsung will focus on its Tizen partner ecosystem.

’The biggest efforts we’ll make in 2017 will really be around expanding the Tizen partner ecosystem, so that we have more customers developing more custom applications for our business users on the device,’ McCarty said.