Thursday, 23 October 2014

Samsung Gear Live: Probably the Best Smartwatch You Can Buy for Now

Samsung Gear Live: Probably the Best Smartwatch You Can Buy for Now


Android Wear launched previously this year. The smartwatch platform connects a phone to a watch and puts phone notifications on the watch’s touchscreen. Users talk with the watch to surf the Web, browse to a place, set pointers or produce consultations. Third-party apps extend the watch’s performance so users can record voice memos, look into restaurants or time out podcasts.


Samsung Gear Live Design


Samsung created the Gear Live with a gorgeous bright extremely AMOLED screen with a 320 x 320 resolution or 278ppi. It’s housed in a smooth silver aluminum case and a plastic back. The tough rubber watch band is available in black, or wine-red, and clasps around the wrist thanks to metal clasp with 2 raised snaps. These snaps fit into the holes on the other part of the band, which makes for remarkable resizing.


The watch feels light even though it looks really big, even on thick wrists like mine. Think inexpensive digital watch band instead of fine precious jewelry watch band. The fashion mindful user must look somewhere else. Sadly, no smartwatch offered today will certainly measure up to style-conscious tastes since they’re all ugly. On a spectrum from plain unsightly on the left to stylish beauty on the right, the Samsung Gear Live fits between the LG G Watch and initial Pebble Smartwatch at the severe left end, and the Moto 360 that sits in the middle. No Android Wear watch looks as appealing as the images we saw from Apple throughout their announcement of the Apple Watch.


The Gear Live lugs an iP67 rating, meaning users can shower with it after working hard in an unclean environment. I recently drenched it with a container of water and used it while baptizing somebody at my church with no problems.


The Gear Live measures 56mm x 38mm x 8.9 mm and weighs 2.12 oz. It’s big on the wrist but feels light.


The only control button sits to all-time low of the best side of the watch. Press the button to wake up the screen, or press and hold to raise the option menu to do things like adjust the brightness, restart or close down.


Users can reset the watch from the button, if there’s an issue. I had to do this a few times since it lost the connection to my phone and only resetting to manufacturing facility settings fixed it.


Samsung uses the exact same awful charging system found on their earlier watches. The charging adapter snaps onto the back of the watch and plugs into a micro-USB to USB cable to charge the phone. It needs a nightly charge, due to the fact that it won’t run for more than a 36 hours.


On the back of the watch below the charging ports there’s a heart rate sensing unit that works quite well. The user can change the band to something more stylish or comfortable making use of standard watch bands.


Compatibility


Unlike previous Samsung smart watches, the Samsung Gear Live works with any Android phone running 4.3 or newer. I tested it with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the HTC One M8 without big troubles aside from the connection issues already pointed out. These occurred on both phones.


The smartwatch will not work with iPhone or Windows Phone.


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