Recently, Samsung has made an announcement of new devices: Galaxy Note 3 and Smart watch wearable accessory. Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch has the ability to take photos and to run number of apps on it. The idea is not new as we all know. Smart watches concept is into existence from some time now. Originally they were designed into round shapes but this time Samsung has introduced them in rectangular and we can say in actual extension of a smart phone.
Market Situation
If we look into the market Sony has introduced its one of the latest wearable watch gadget also which has plenty of sports apps, watch face, stylish and is water resistant. Apart from that Samsung Galaxy Gear has got its own personified features like it has OLED screen with better display of colors, 800MHz of processor along with microphone, speaker and camera.
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Specifications
The watch is being powered with 800MHz processor and also possess of internal storage space of 4GB. It has a RAM of 512 MB. Except from the specs and the features of the watch; android app development part is being emphasized while development of the device or gadget. This means you cannot only see what’s time is it now but also can take pictures on the go. The camera app got all the features required and it is located on the belt projecting outwards.
This new gear is in actual extension of your smart phone but on the other hand when we look into its features we can claim that it is standalone device which is running on its own android apps. Not too much of apps, you will find on the watch being optimized but it is expected that their number will increase soon. But still it has 70 apps running on the gear including: Evernote, MyFitnessPal for Sports, Path, TripIt, Line, RunKeeper, Vivino and eBay.
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Smart Phone Extension
Why the device is termed as the extension of the Smartphone? The reason behind is that you can talk through this device through microphones and speaker integrated into the device. For now it is only for the compatible devices. Therefore, it is quite clear that if you can talk through your watch and can use many of your favorite app then what else to expect which is not there in your Smartphone. The device will be in the market at the end of September 2013.
Rose Waring is a professional tech blogger. Her major fields of interest include Android Application development and related applications. She works for Tech oriented company Algomatik, leading tech based company in California.