Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Wearable Tech. Google's New Android Wear.


Google's Announcement on 18th March 2014 pretty much changed everything about the state of wearable tech right now.
So Google announced, in case you haven't heard of it, ANDROID WEAR. Which is a version of android designed specifically for wearables and wearable tech. (mostly smart watches)
So before its announcement if you had to build your own smart watch you could use one of two ways.
1. Build you own OS such as the Sony Smart watch 2 which runs on a Custom OS or the Samsung Gear 2 which runs on Tizen.
2. Or you could do it the other way which is modify an existing firmware which is Android.

LG's Smart Watch

This software has an whole lot of integration with Google Maps. We all were waiting to see something like this from google even we didn't know what it would exactly look like. so now that we have android wear when are we going to see devices that use this.
So Motorola and LG are going to be launch partners but in very different ways.
LG being the less interesting of the two will be launching a traditional smart watch with a square display.
But the much more interesting Launch partner Motorola will be launching the first ever Smart Watch with a round display. namely the Motive 360.
Motorola's Smart Watch

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