LG G Watch: launch date and pricing of Android Wear Smartwatch

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The South Korean giant (LG) jumped onto the wearable bandwagon with the announcement of its first smartwatch, the G Watch, will be available before July and will be priced less than £180 in the UK. The LG G Watch runs Google’s Android Wear, a software project that extends Android to wearable and the South Korean company had revealed that its first smartwatch will be available by the end of the second quarter.

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As the original mock-up pictures, already revealed by LG suggested, there will be no buttons on the device at all. The design offered a solid, seamless build that wasn’t heavy but certainly felt premium. Android Wear watches will support notifications from apps and messages and Google Now voice control will play a prominent role in interacting with the watches, as the videos below show.

LG hasn’t as yet detailed any specifications for the G Watch but says it will in the coming months. It sounds like Google and LG have really worked closely together on the G Watch’s launch. The website also got access to a non-functional prototype of the watch and mentioned that the square shaped watch will come with interchangeable straps.

Motorola’s Moto 360 and LG’s G Watch are the first smartwatches to feature Google’s Android Wear software platform made for wearable devices. Motorola has also hinted at a summer release for its round smartwatch.

Google however, besides LG and Motorola, is also teaming-up with other firms for its Android Wear project, out of which some key manufacturers are Asus, HTC, LG, Samsung and the Fossil Group.

Introducing Android Wear video from YouTube:

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