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Android Wear Is Here
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.
I'm completely uninspired by these bland boring android watches. There's no way I'd want one of these on my wrist. I mean for starters... plastic watch straps... really? what a retarded decision. Has no one at these companies ever actually tried wearing one of these for any length of time? especially in a hot climate?
The writing has been on the wall for years. Apple has shown over and over that people want and care about good design and quality materials, and will even pay through the nose for them. Evidently for many people, style is even more important than actual functionality in a buying decision, yet LG and especially Samsung are still releasing products (both phones and now watches) that look like cheap plastic wal-mart crap that cost at most 20 cents to make (not least because they saved on the cost of hiring a designer), but still the actual price makes it a non-trivial purchase. You get the worst of both worlds.
LG and especially Samsung should finally get a clue and take quality materials and good, interesting design as seriously as Apple (or better yet one-up them).