Thursday, 24 July 2014

Samsung, LG's Smart watches features

South Korea Samsung and LG are two rival companies in electronic gadgets industry. Samsung covers more market in Mobile industry whereas LG is into ACs and Washing Machines. Recently, both companies launched rival smart watches powered by Google new software. Both companies are focusing on wearable devices as an increasing competitive market. Let us see some of the smart features of these watches.

Android Wear powers Samsung ‘Gear Live’ and LG ‘G Watch’, both. These are the first devices to adopt new Google software specifically designed for wearable. LG ‘G Watch’ is the first smartwatch to be equipped with Google voice recognition service. It also include simple tasks including checking email, sending text messages and carrying out an online search at user voice command. A typical watch cannot make phone calls by themselves.

However, they can be connected to many of the latest Android-based smartphones. These watches allow users to make calls, receive text messages and emails, take photos, and access applications. These gadgets are designed to work across all devices as long as gadgets are running the operating system.


The ‘G Watch’ has swappable straps, which are not easy to remove whereas Samsung swappable straps are easy to remove. There is a touch screen controller inside both watches. Samsung watch has 300mAh battery whereas LG has 400mAh battery inside it. These watches are very difficult to repair by any person. After training to an employee, these can be repaired. Other companies such as Microsoft, Motorola are also planning to launch smart watches probably in the end of this year.

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