LG introduced the world to its Android Wear-powered G Watch back in March, right around the same time the platform itself and Motorola’s Moto 360 debuted. In the months that have followed, the G Watch has gone up for sale (joined by Samsung and its Gear Live), while we anxiously await for the 360 to join it. But now that Motorola’s offering ...
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We’ve got Android Wear. We’ve got Samsung’s proprietary Gear line-up. We’ve got Pebble. Even Sony has some skin in the game. You probably won’t find anyone who would argue with you that those are all “smartwatches”. But they’re all so different from one another! That got us scratching our heads: what is a smartwatch?According to Wikipedia: ...
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Back in “the day”, telephones were made up of a round speaker connected to a round microphone via a handle. To call someone, you picked up the “handset” from the “receiver” and “dialed” the number. The reason we still use that term today is because the apparatus for inputting our contact’s phone number was a round dial. You’d stick your finger in the hole that represented the number you wanted, rotate the dial until it stopped, pull out your finger, and wait while it returned back to the starting position.This wasn’t such a ...
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Last week, we saw our second Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE giveaway draw to a close. And as it did so, it marked the end of the last contest we announced back at the start of July, for our month of giveaways. So, is that all she wrote?Not hardly. We’re expanding that month of giveaways to a summer of giveaways, and if you were listening to
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Smartwatches just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to power. Their compact construction affords little room for anything close to phone-sized batteries, forcing users to recharge their wearables with nearly daily frequency. And even then, we’ve seen problems with the charging interfaces themselves, like the issues Samsung’s had with the charging adapter for the Gear Live. Now it’s LG’s turn to tackle a power-related problem for its own smartwatch, as the company ...
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To say I’ve been excited about Google Now on a smartwatch is a bit of an understatement. I’ve ranted about how Google Now and wearables were a match made in heaven more than once. And the minute Android Wear was announced, I stopped what I was doing and vented about my buyer’s remorse over the $250 I had just spent on Pebble Steel.Things have changed somewhat, though, and I’m now perfectly okay – even quite pleased – with Pebble Steel. Android Wear has finally hit virtual ...
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I’m more connected than ever before, and I have the smartwatch to thank for it.To those who think we’re already too deeply mired in the muck of always-on communications, that might not sound appetizing – but smartwatches don’t exist merely to bring us more connectivity; the good ones connect us to the world in a smarter way. Skeptics of the new category focus mainly on its redundancy, which is a fair point (why wear a smartwatch when I can just pull my phone out instead?). But once you’ve worn one for a while, you realize just how useful it can be to have ...
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Google hasn’t necessarily taken the world by storm with its Android Wear offerings. Some people claim to still be waiting for the Moto 360, and others have found that being an early adopter is not such a good idea. If you read Michael Fisher’s reviews on the LG G Watch and the Android Wear watch face API to come along with Android L update appeared first on Pocketnow.
Two of the hottest products in consumer electronics right now are the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live, the first in a wave of Android Wear-flavored wearable devices. Both have bene fairly hard to get by if you’re a Google Play-hater, but now Android Wear availability has expanded to both Best Buy and Google’s own Shopping Express service.The prices haven’t changed for both Best ...
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There are folks out there who don’t have the time for a ten-minute video or a 3,000-word review, and they certainly don’t have an hour to absorb a meandering podcast (no matter how many awards it’s won). These people might be sneaking a quick YouTube fix on a bathroom break, trying to make a point to a rival smartphone owner at a bar, or even standing in line at a wireless retail store, waiting to make a purchase. They need the facts delivered quickly, with a minimum of window ...
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At its core, the mission of a smartwatch is to make life easier. To improve on the smartphone experience by giving you leave to keep it in a pocket or leave it on the table across the room, because your messages, calls, emails, and other notifications are coming straight to your wrist.The nondescript, water-resistant G Watch does a fairly good job of delivering those notifications, popping up inbound messages alongside weather reports, calendar items, pedometer readings and much more on the 1.65-inch IPS LCD. But it’s not until the Snapdragon processor spins to life that the G ...
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It seems that every time we hear about “augmented reality” (AR) it’s from someone who has a new product they’re trying to peddle, which usually takes the form of some hideous looking piece of headwear. Recently, however, consumers are turning to smartwatches rather than eyewear. This is evidenced by the number of available apps for Android Wear compared to Google Glass, especially considering the latter has been available for so much longer. That’s what one company is banking on: an augmented reality smartwatch.According to most definitions, “augmented ...
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There are many reasons why you’d want to root your phone, but an LG G Watch root via a custom ROM? Yup. And it’s awesome!Smartwatches powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system are starting to show up on wrists across the world. Right now people are starting to get used to the idea of notifications showing up on their watch, and beginning to see the utility of talking back to it to get things done — even though it still looks a ...
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Without a doubt, two of the hottest smartwatch platforms right now are Pebble and Android Wear. Many speculated after the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live went live on the Play Store that Pebble’s reign would come to a close, but is that really justified? We take a look in our Android Wear vs Pebble video.There are two representatives for both platforms — Pebble has the original plastic version, and the premium ...
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Only days after the unboxing of Android Wear devices across the United States, it seems Google is hard at work in making these products as reliable as possible. The company pushed a software update to these devices a few days ago, and if you thought those minor bug fixes were all these ...
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