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Android Wear Is Here

Posted by samzenpus on from the come-in-dick-tracy dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this breakdown and comparison of the first two Android Wear watches available today. The first two watches built on the Android Wear platform launch today. One is from LG, the G Watch, and the other is from its arch Korean peninsular rival, Samsung, the Gear Live. Should you buy one today? Maybe. It depends on how early you like to adopt. Let's take a quick trip through analysis lane. First, let's talk about Android Wear, because both watches run on the same platform, and both of them have more or less the same software. Android Wear really does two main things, it moves app notifications to the watch's face, and it puts Google Now's voice-powered search capabilities on your wrist. That's about it. But that's pretty powerful.

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  1. Call me by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    call me when a charge lasts a week or so. So long as I have to charge it every day I'l keep my solar powered radio synced watch which has told me the time for the last 5 years without having to touch it.

  2. So they post notifications to your hand... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...instead of you reading them when you feel like, and they need ot be recharged every day. For $200. WOW!

  3. Why the Displays? by NoZart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the hell are they so fixated on using Displays? Give it an e-paper face and be done with it - you get "always on" and better battery live. And even monochrome displays can be made to look beautiful

    1. Re:Why the Displays? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because the pretentious twat reviewer types will savagely treat any monochrome product. Moreover the trendy hipster crowd would never use anything not in full color. It would be a sales disaster. Practical? Who the hell ever got invited to parties for being practical?

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  4. In a watch, batteries should last a year or more by mark-t · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO, of course.

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  5. Moto 360 by WaffleMonster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being square was like so 60's. I want round watches which don't resemble 80's Timex wrist calculators.

  6. Re:In a watch, batteries should last a year or mor by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the smartphone allowed people to do things they couldn't already do. The smartwatch allows them to.... not take their smartphone out of their pocket. That's it, its a subset of all the functionality of their phone, and it doesn't do most of them that well. There's nothing compelling about them.

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