We’re testing a smart watch with Android Wear – LG G Watch R. The first such device that officially, through a network of Play, you can buy in our country. Is it one of the best gadgets on the market?
Smart watches have become a hit sales in 2014. It has not adopted as hot as you would like the producers. Is 2015 the situation will change? Maybe. One of the devices that you want to convince users to segment SmartWatch is the LG G Watch R, available in Poland through ads Play. What can such a watch, and what is the title Android Wear?
Android Wear – in short
This is the Google system prepared for the so-called electronic worn (wearable tech ). The device having the system synchronizes with your smartphone or tablet (running Android 4.3 or higher), so the watch will display all notifications on your phone – reminders, messages, or simply information about an incoming call. Except for short
LG G Watch R – as it presents
Appearance LG G Watch R refers to the traditional watches. It has a round shield, reinforced stainless steel. Style shield, which is both the device wallpaper, you can change to your liking (new discs charge of the store Google Play, for some you have to pay). In addition, a marker IP67, which means that it is resistant to the half-hour immersion to a depth of 1 m and a total protection from the ingress of dust. Included you will find 22 millimeter leather strap is fully removable. While the watch looks really good (this is of course a matter of taste, but objectively it is a well-made device), the strap does not stand out from the ordinary watch. However, as mentioned above – can be replaced. Therefore, it is not a problem.
Watch – what can and what can not?
LG G Watch R is equipped with a 1.3-inch, round P-OLED display. LG has applied its 400 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 4 GB of internal memory, 512MB of RAM and a battery with a capacity of 410 mAh (exact specifications to find at the end of the material). This information sounds proudly, and such guts would not be ashamed of the mid-range smartphone. What does this mean for the user while? Smartwach get a screen with really high quality. Can not be faulted. This is a big plus of this gadget. Prepared by LG specification means that the watch is running smoothly – there is no question about the delays. LG G Watch by the PPG sensor will also measure our pulse. Built-in 4GB memory means that we can watch, for example, rip music, pair the same hardware (via Bluetooth) headset, and then let go of your favorite tunes while jogging. The phone is while at home.
What the LG G Watch R can not find? GPS module, a well-known example from Samsung Gear S or Garmin fitness watch. LG G Watch R inform you of an incoming call. We can accept or reject it, but do not use it as a speakerphone. LG explains this decision, better management of energy (battery is spared), but in spite of everything – some will be missing this feature. There is also a camera-style quirks, but in this case we do not have anything to regret – and so is the solution at the Samsung has not confirmed.
SmartWatch – what can I do with it?
LG G Watch R can as far as Android system allows him to Wear. And the latter is constantly evolving. To take full advantage of the watch, on your phone / tablet, you need to install the Android Wear (is free). She will be our command center watch. Thanks to set the notification, retrieve and wgramy new applications and so on. And the latter (application) is more and more. Android Wear, whether it’s through Google, or traps third party allows, among other things: check the weather, the use of navigation (guidance in real time), remote operation of the camera phone and music player, set reminders, and create voice memos, and so on . This is not the end.
watch get these alerts – SMS ( all text) messages from Facebook, Tweets, notifications of Forsquare and so on. Wear Android also works with popular applications fitness, including with runtastic and Endomondo. There were even simple games. In this version of Android predicted support for instant messaging, for example Whatsapp. There’s a little bit. Watch serve or using the touch interface or our voice. How is this possible? Upon termination, the message “OK, google”, watch waiting for our voice command. Will it be a question about the weather (“Krakow weather”) and asked to run the application. Voice interface, of course, does not always work properly, but on the improvement of Google engineers are constantly working. And what is important – watch, although there is no Polish text interface, working with Polish spoken commands.
For more information (in English) on the Android Wear
The issue of battery
Subject always returns batteries for testing devices with wearable tech category. How often do we have to charge the LG G Watch R? Preferably every 24 hours, as well as, in general, our phone. With minimal use of the screen and turn off synchronization, the watch can withstand without charge up to 48 hours. But it would be safer to charge it daily. To do this, we need to put on a special panel. As a panel we lose, then we have a problem.
Test Summary and Conclusions
SmartWatch and eat like a very young machine. It is not known whether they adopt in the market. But we do know what? That among these types of products available LG G Watch R is without a doubt one of the best in the world smartzegarków. It has its faults, but on the background of competing devices falls really well.
The offer of Play LG G Watch 1099 zł costs.
Specifications:
Processor: 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
Display: 1.3-inch P-OLED (320 x 320)
Memory: 4GB eMMC / 512MB RAM
Battery: 410mAh
Operating System: Android Wear ™ (compatible with smartphones running Android 4.3 or later)
Sensors: 9-Axis (Gyro / Accelerometer / Compass), barometer, PPG
Color: Black
In addition: Kurzo and waterproof (IP67)
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