Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “LG G Watch Hands-on Impressions!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m kid Bhd here – and I am in San Francisco, California, of course, for Google i/o 2014, and here I’ve got my hands on the LG G watch. So there were 3 smartwatches shown off for the first Android wear smartwatches at Google i/o. There was the Moto 360, the circular one that everyone’s talking about. Then there was a Samsung one called the Samsung gear live and then there’s the LG one, which is called the LG G watch. The G watch is retailing for $ 229 in the Google Play Store, starting today and from my hands on in my impressions of it.
It’S actually not all that different from the Moto 360 aside from the shape which I’ll talk about in a second. So it’s a 280 by 280 resolution. It comes in black or white. It’S the stainless steel in terms of size. Obviously I don’t have the biggest risk in the world, but it’s kind of similar in size to a pebble steel. I’D say a little bit bigger. It. Obviously has bezel on the top on the bottom, but it’s a square form factor and it looks really similar to a pebble so with a SmartWatch.
Something a lot of people are gon na wonder about is the battery life and the standby time, and what LG told us is the standby time is gon na be somewhere around 36 hours, with that 400 million power battery and for the size you’re getting it at. It’S always on and that LCD screen is pretty bright. Looking you’re gon na get that always on for 36 hours, so it doesn’t seem all that bad, of course, raising it up with your wrist, we’ll get that screen to activate. So it gets a lot brighter and it’ll show you you, notifications and basically, when we were using this watch, it’s in a retail lonely mode, so you’re not gon na get to actually use the voice commands or the things that’ll do when it’s connected to your smart Phone, you can think of this as Google now and your Android notification center on your wrist. That’S basically all it does. So it will give you all your Google now notifications, how many steps you’ve taken the weather and then your Notification Center.
So if you have music playing, you can play pause that kind of stuff. If you have some other album art, there are some other ongoing notifications. All that kind of stuff can be controlled through some swipes in the gestures so from what we got to play with it. It was pretty smooth.
Nothing really hung up. It seemed like retail mode is working just fine, but if you’re gon na check out a watch like this you’re gon na check out the functionality and how it connects to your phone. So that’s what we saw. So it’s a little bit unclear at this point whether the watch is using all of your phone sensors or if it has a bunch of sensors of its own. It has no physical buttons, but what have as a nine axis, gyroscope accelerometer, basically to be able to tell when you raise it and that’s when it’ll brighten itself and you’ll be able to see all your notifications and the UI, but other than that they made it Sound like the pedometer and all the other sensors will come from the sensors in your phone, which is getting away at Bluetooth so really coming in at 229. This is less than a pebble steel.
It has a lot more functionality if I was pebble right now. I’D be very concerned about this kind of stuff and Android. Wear is getting a lot more in a spotlight with watches like this, the LGG watch and, of course, the Moto 360, which I do want to get hands-on time with. But there you go guys. That’S your hands-on with the LG G watch here in San Francisco at Google i/o 2014. Thank you for watching I’ll talk to you guys. The next one peace .
