Fast pair: An easy way to set up your new Android phone
Here’s the crux of the matter: Google is bringing in Fast pair together with the Galaxy S23 series to help with easy connection.
Features of Fast Pair
It’s a feature of Google Play Services that makes it simple to set up new devices on Android right now. This includes headphones, Wear OS watches, and soon styluses and tracker tags. After doing some research, we discovered that by supporting Android phones, Google is introducing yet another type of device to Fast Pair.
We believe that your current Android phone will activate Fast Pair, just like headphones can do right now when it discovers a nearby device that hasn’t been set up yet, whether it’s a new tablet or a replacement phone. From there, you will be guided through installing the appropriate app for migrating your data, depending on the precise device you are trying to set up. You would download the Samsung Smart Switch app, for instance, on a Samsung handset.
In the end, the setup process should be otherwise unchanged from the standard steps to set up a new Android phone with a QR code. Instead, the software appears to be utilized in this case to facilitate the installation of the Samsung Smart Switch. This is similar to how Wear OS watches can currently show up in Fast Pair to assist you in getting started with the required companion app.
9to5google has discovered information that suggests Google is getting ready to release Android’s new Fast Pair functionality at the same time as the Samsung Galaxy S23 series. Given that Samsung is now collecting pre-order reservations for those phones, which are slated to be launched in the coming days, we might see the Fast Pair extension arrive very soon.
