• Diyan
• On July 10, 2016

A companion app for Vector smart watches hits the Windows 10 Store

Vector, the company that produces stylish smartwatches with a 30-day battery life has just re-designed its app for Windows 10. The companion app includes many new features designed especially for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. Here is the long changelog:

• Windows 10 Mobile Support (RS Insider not supported)
• Notifications that get dismissed from the watch will automatically be dismissed from the phone as well. You also have the option to not dismiss them from the phone.
• VOS (Vector OS) Update – Notifications with non-English characters and diacritics now displayed on watch
• Activity Tracking improvements – Detailed Sleep data is now available in the activity graph
• Restore user data (Alarms and User Biometric Data) after reinstalling the app
• New Music app – Please remember to open the Groove Music app on the phone beforehand
• New apps: NEST, Wunderlist, Evernote
• Improved Timezone stream for DST (Daylight Savings Time)
• Improved OTA (Over The Air) updates stability – Retry button in case of update failure
• Improved phone – watch connectivity
• Improved notifications and calls (will reach your watch faster than before)
• New watch faces now available in the store
• Compatibility with the Watchface Maker
• Facebook & Twitter Streams now have icons
• Tested on the most popular Microsoft Lumia devices, such as 640XL, 950 and 950 XL
• Enabled pairing from the app U
• npairing from the watch now triggers unpairing from the phone >- Various UI improvements and bugfixes

While the features above are coming only to Windows 10, the old Windows Phone 8.1 still exists in the Store for legacy devices. Here is the link to the new version for Windows 10.