LG has a historical past of displaying off its new hardware forward of main commerce exhibits, and tonight it did simply that once more with the G Watch R.
The LG G Watch R is the brand new Android Wear smartwatch from the Life’s Good crew and, simply as anticipated, it’s acquired a spherical face. The show is a 1.three-inch P-OLED display with a decision of 320x320. In the meantime, the shell of the G Watch R is IP67 rated for mud and water resistance.
Inside the LG G Watch R’s chrome steel body lives a 1.2GHz Snapdragon four hundred processor, 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and a 410mAh battery. It’s additionally acquired a handful of sensors that features a gyro, an accelerometer, a compass a barometer and a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor that may monitor the wearer’s heartbeat.
With regards to truly sporting this factor in your wrist, the G Watch R comes with a 22mm calf asking leather-based strap. If leather-based’s not your factor, you possibly can swap the strap out for one thing of your personal selecting.
LG says that the G Watch R will launch in early This fall 2014. Pricing and exact launch launch information shall be launched nearer to its rollout.
The LG G Watch R seems to be like a pleasant piece of hardware that should be engaging to lots of people that need a smartwatch that doesn’t seem like a smartwatch. It’s additionally good to see one other spherical Android Put on gadget coming to market, and it’ll be fascinating to see how the LG G Watch R compares to Motorola’s Moto 360, particularly since LG retains taking photographs at Moto by saying issues like how the G Watch R “makes use of one hundred pc of its watch face.”
Now that it’s formally official, what do you consider the LG G Watch R? Is that this the smartwatch that you simply’d wish to have in your wrist?
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