For Samsung's quick second generation of its Gear smartwatch brought new apps, like iHeartRadio.
Clear Channel's iHeartRadio was one of a few third-party developers to create an app for Samsung's Gear 2, its second generation smartwatch.
(Credit: iHeartRadio)For Samsung, it's a new year, and a new smartwatch -- and that means new apps.
The world's biggest smartphone maker unveiled Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain -- both powered by its homegrown Tizen operating system, instead of Google's Android.
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Samsung's Gear hasn't been getting many new apps in its short life, but the introduction of the wearable's second generation -- not even half a year since the first one rolled out -- brings with it new app partners and updates from app makers for the first version.
The first Galaxy Gear smartwatch debuted with 70 applications centered on fitness, social media, and productivity, including apps from companies like Evernote, Path, and eBay.
That seems to pale to competitors like Sony's SmartWatch 2, which launched in June with more than 200. However, Sony's catalog didn't boast many brand-name applications among the offerings.
This is a live document, updated with news of other apps as they're announced.
iHeartRadio
iHeartRadio, the digital arm of radio giant Clear Channel, is a new partner and the first digital radio service on Gear 2, after the previous version was limited to controlling your paired phone's own media library and a buggy application RadiON. It's the first wearable app from iHeartRadio, too.
Clear Channel's iHeartRadio was a new third-party developer to create an app for Samsung's Gear 2.
(Credit: iHeartRadio)Like other media apps on smartwatches, it allows Samsung Gear 2 owners to remotely control their iHeartRadio smartphone app from their wrist. From the band, Gear 2 can access favorite stations (including those you've customized previously), save favorites, scan for live radio stations that are part of Clear Channels network, skip songs on custom stations, and give tracks a thumbs up or thumbs down rating.
iHeartRadio as a service has access to 1,500 live radio stations and provides the ability to create stations similar to those you can make in Pandora.
On Gear 2, the app will be compatible with more than 30 devices including the Samsung Galaxy Note and S series smartphones, as well as Galaxy tablets.
It's not, however, built for Tizen. Brian Lakamp, Clear Channel's president of digital, told CNET the company built its Gear 2 app based on HTML 5 and Javascript rather than Samsung's brand new, homegrown operating system.
That also means the app is more portable to other wearables outside the Tizen universe, which right now is minuscule.
"It's impossible to ignore the traction and momentum of the wearable space," Lakamp said. "This is a natural first step in that direction."
Check back here for a wrap of other Gear 2 apps as they're announced. And be sure to tune into CNET's live coverage of Samsung's Unpacked event Monday at 11 a.m. PT.
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