Android Wear, Apple Watch and a handful of other independent alternative smartwatch makers are pushing and shoving to get their piece of the pie. Now we welcome another player into the scene, Com1. This $150 Android Wear device is reminiscent of the LG watch at first glance and is claiming a battery life of 2 days, which is a selling point for some consumers.
The Apple Watch doesn’t even exist on the consumer market yet, there are probably a handful of prototypes reserved for top Apple employees, yet … Read more…
Rumours have been circling that the G watch v2 would be launched next week in Berlin. However, as everyone waits for the Moto 360 with … Read more…
Android watches seem to be on fire these past few months, Samsung and LG both released their G Watch and Samsung Gear Live just recently and … Read more…
We are officially in the midst of smartwatch mania. Pebble made a boat load of money and has become a commonplace name among tech nerds. … Read more…
Google I/O 2014 has come and gone and one of the hot announcements to come from it was Android Wear. We knew it was coming and Google did not disappoint. Those who were present at the conference were rewarded with their choice of a Samsung Gear Live or LG G Watch. Of course, with anything like this, you have early adopters who want to get in on the action, and some attendees who either don’t need or want the device, or want to make a little profit. For that reason, you can go to eBay and order these watches.
Join a skeleton Aercast crew on this special edition installment while they discuss today’s Google I/O event. Tom Rodman, Justin Jelinek and Kevin Lemere discuss all things Google! Android Wear, Android UX/UI changes, and much, much more.
Earlier today Google said that two Android Wear devices would be released for order in the Google Play Store and that time is now. The … Read more…
Google have come up with a great idea of utilising an underused display area – our wrist! What better place for their amazing Application Programming Interface (API) to live. Think about it, no more trawling your bag for your phone or missed calls. Looks smart/cute and certainly attracts attention…
Wearables are the hot new category that everyone is interested in and we all are waiting to see how it will shake out. We already have Pebble, Samsung, and several others fighting for the space of smart watches. We expect an iWatch and we have seen Android Wear in devices like the Moto 360 and LG G Watch. I personally have used several different smart watches and there is one watch that has caught my eye intensely. That watch is the Kairos Mechanical Smartwatch Hybrid.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome, & Apps, announced in a post on the Official Google Blog today that Android Wear and smartwatches running the new operating system would be available to consumers as soon as Quarter 2 of this year.
