Samsung's watch, expensive and unintelligent - The País.com (Spain)

Choosing a watch is very personal; speaks volumes about the person wearing it. So to start, I must say that the Samsung Galaxy Gear is not for everyone, despite the media frenzy generated by presenting electronic product simultaneously in Berlin and New York. And who expect the gadget will make you more intelligent than those who do not carry it, we continue to wait.

Gear has at first sight the same dimension of those Casio calculator watches forbid you bring teachers in math exams not to play advantage. This is twice as thick. The other thing that a lot of attention on sight are the four screws in the corners of the box, including Amoled screen and two straps.

must say that celebrities screws highlighted more in the photos than in reality. In fact, not given more attention than the first eye contact. Wear it on your wrist is your thing at first. The belt, for safety, is robust. Once the position is located, is well suited to the arm hold still. To the extent you have, not heavy.

Before tightening the only Gear button and put it to work, an assessment more aesthetic. For those who are used to big watches, it will not change things much. But seeing the design of the device and the colors in which it occurs, is difficult to believe that a professional Wall Street it will take to work. Also hard to see on the wrist of a woman.

Obviously, the key to this kind of mobile remote control would be on the screen, the new gateway to the Internet that supposedly opens at the wrist. When turned on, the first thing that appears in the model is the time in digital format with a fine typography, white on black background. It reads perfectly. The appearance can be changed. The functions are presenting then moving cards with finger gestures.

touch screen is of 1.63 inches and resolution 320 by 320 pixels. Has speaker, two microphones and a small 1.9-megapixel camera on the handle facing the outside of the arm. You can take pictures and videos of 10 seconds with sound. If you are looking for image quality, better to shoot with the phone. Inside a processor is 800 megahertz.

Essentially what you are looking for Samsung with the Gear is that your audience is always connected to your phone without having to touch it. In practice, this means being able to make a call while typing, driving or making purchase, provided the phone is less than 1.5 meters away. Fewer procedures are not understood.

One of the functions of the watch is the marker. You can also write messages and update your calendar or contacts thanks to S Voice, which works correctly.

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test could not be done because the Gear is linked only to a Galaxy Note 3 no contract, but if in the end we used to see people on the street talking to herself, perhaps stroll with elbow and wrist up to his mouth as popularized Michael Knight and Dick Tracy. In any case, it is true that every time we talk least mobile.

At first contact, the most practical feature is the music player controller, together, in the case of the athlete, the pedometer, always clear you want to carry a Note 3 with the weight that .

The key will be in the applications they are created to bring life and improve performance. That’s what could make it an attractive device. It will begin with a 70, but the clock only supports a dozen third-party applications in addition to the preinstalled.

device response to gestures is better than expected for the first generation, although slow compared to mobile. Still, with the low screen resolution and dimension, so nascent right now is to see that demonstrates more than to browse notes, watch the time or give orders to S Voice. Also to be seen whether future versions let you use the clock without touching the start button.

All this, for $ 299 in the U.S.. If the design and size that it adds, can not imagine that will mobilize the masses a device that continues to be an auxiliary to other accessory. That price makes it a pretty expensive device with plastic strap. If we also consider running twinned with the new Galaxy tablet Note3 and 10.1, both with Android 4.3, we must add the price of those electronic devices or any other that, in the future, is compatible with other Galaxy. It makes no sense that this little clock on limited costs more than a tablet of the same brand .

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That this error incurred when competing specializes in lower prices (for now his watch is far more expensive than the Sony, Pebble or Qualcomm) could mean that launches the product as a testbed for see consumer response or that it was believed that the success of your mobile ensures overall fidelity to their products. The first is arranged, the latter would be more worrisome.