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LG G Watch R

September 2014 at IFA 2014 LG unveiled the world’s first complete round watch, LG G Watch R . Since Motorola’s beautiful round watch Moto 360 , round watches are the trend for smart watch. As an original Android wear partner LG’s first smart watch G watch was announced at Google I/O this year. But the LG G watch was as simply square display watch running Android wear. It had no big feature than one the fist smart watch to run Android wear like other competitors like Samsung at the point. LG has returned to smart watch business with it new LG G Watch R. R for round, yes it’s a round watch. Unlike Moto 360 , LG G watch R has a perfect round display. Design LG have worked well on the design on the new LG smart watch. It has a black round brushed metal finish with black rough plastic back . The watch has a larger bezel than the small Moto 360 bezel but the bezel gives it a premium look. Most mart watches until now, comes with a good look but does it good enough to wear...

Sony Smart Watch 3

3 rd September 2014 at IFA 2014 Sony released its third generation smart watch Sony Smart Watch 3 running Android Wear along with SmartBand . Sony is one of the most valuable electronic manufacturing companies of all time. But since last few years Sony struggles lot to grip into smart phone market with it Xperia Z series. Sony smart phone sales are falling tremendously with a unhealthy UI and high price. Sony decided to siege the new emerging smart watch market with an early entry with Samsung. Sony made its own platform to power their smart watches. As the smart watches work parallel with smart phone to delivery for functionality, the platform was build such that all smart phone with Android 4.3+ are compactable. Still Sony smart watch didn’t work out well as much as Samsung products did. Thus Sony has to have breaking news to jump back into the smart watch market as lot companies like Pebble, LG with G Watch R and Motorola with Moto 360 came with better products by ...

[UPDATE] Microsoft Smart band Coming Soon

The tech giant Microsoft is ready to unveil a Smart watch within few weeks. Microsoft is falling smartphone market with just 3.5% share and Android dominating with 80.2% along Apple with 14.8% share in the Global smartphone market by the end of 2014. Microsoft decided to catch the market with a new line a wearable device, Smart watch.  This isn’t the first time we hear about a wearable device from Microsoft, two years ago Microsoft got granted a patent for a wearable EMG device which can detect muscle movement in the wearer’s arms to control his smartphone. In the year 2012 Microsoft was rumored on working with a wearable device with work with Kinect and later march, 2014 Microsoft spend about $150 million on a patent related to headset and a watch like device from the Osterhout Design Group. The expected Microsoft smart watch is focus on fitness than anything which makes the device special. The watch will be sensor rich including a passive heart rate...