I did use it a few times for the sake of novelty, but unless Google Fit comes with a coaching feature to continuously monitor the heart rate, it's a feature that has little to add to
the Android Wear experience.
The is what is expected from
the Android Wear experience though.
The device doesn't really go above and beyond the competition by a big margin either, even though
the Android Wear experience is what is the limiting factor.
If you're looking to kick off (or upgrade)
your Android Wear experience, and look and feel matter more to you than anything else, it just doesn't get any better than the Huawei Watch.
The regular full - color mode lets you have the complete
Android Wear experience, albeit with a pretty limited battery life — Casio says that at full use it'll last about 7 hours.
Michael Kors and Fossil have produced a watch that combines traditional style with a rock - solid
Android Wear experience.
This is looking like the best designed Android Wear device we've seen from LG so far, ushering in a new
Android Wear experience that's more mature, more engaging and more fully featured.
Meanwhile, Google will extend its currently available developer preview program, continuing to improve
the Android Wear experience.
A lot of the original
Android Wear experience relied on voice control.
Simple and intuitive
Android Wear experience Allowing information to move with the user, the Gear Live, powered by Android Wear shows targeted information and suggestions in real - time.
Google stresses the four elements of
an Android Wear experience among all this, steering developers to focus on being contextually aware and smart, glanceable, helpful, and doing so with little or no need for interaction.
So long as you don't crack the screen, things should be fine for
your Android Wear experience.
Once again, the device's software worked only in «retail mode,» meaning it could do a few things and recognize a few commands but hardly offered the full breadth of
the Android Wear experience.
I / O would be the perfect venue to release the full SDK, which will allow developers to make apps that run directly on wearable hardware, and extend
the Android Wear experience.
And by using the full SDK — which still hasn't been released — developers will be able to customize their services for a more robust
Android Wear experience.
The two watches are remarkably similar — a function of Google requiring a consistent
Android Wear experience across all devices — but the Gear Live is $ 30 cheaper, and bests the G Watch in the all - important style department.
It's not the full
Android Wear experience, but you can read more about what's different here.
There's quite a bit you can accomplish from the watch itself, but if you want to fine - tune
your Android Wear experience you're going to want to do so from the app.
Google wants to give developers the tools to create the best
Android Wear experience.
It probably comes as little surprise that a fitness app would win the the award for Best
Android Wear Experience.
If Google were to open
the Android Wear experience and allow for more customization by the manufacturers, they would not only have a way to make themselves stand out, but more importantly stand out in what is becoming a saturated market.
At a base level,
the Android Wear experience is the same across all devices, meaning that this is a very connected watch, serving up all your notifications and supporting all the apps that the platform offers, like Citymapper, Spotify and more, just as it might on the LG Watch Urbane or Tag Heuer Connected.
If LG could bring the G Watch under the $ 200 point there would be a clearer argument for it, but the fact that
the Android Wear experience is effectively the same no matter the model makes price a bigger contributing factor.
This is how Google creates the same
Android Wear experience regardless of the phone platform you're using.
Internally, its specs are up to par with most other smartwatches, and delivers your basic
Android Wear experience lag - free.
They take
the Android Wear experience and enhance it without getting in the way, and while it's hard to credit Motorola with all of that given Google's grasp on the Wear ecosystem, it's a nice overall experience all the same.
But the G Watch does provide a pretty standard
Android Wear experience, with a little more room for customization than the Gear Live — the more basic design allows for better integration of custom straps.
Please note: iPhone users won't get the full
Android Wear experience.
This sort of disjointed and not yet refined synergy between hardware and software is characteristic of
the Android Wear experience.
But otherwise you get the same
Android Wear experience as on other smartwatches — only in a design that definitely turns heads.
Google states that
Android Wear experiences are Contextually aware and smart, Glanceable, Zero / low interaction, and Helpful.
Not exact matches
Recently released,
Android Wear is already
experiencing a bug: users can't download apps that come with a fee.
If you haven't yet
experienced the frustration and joy of playing Flappy Bird (or even if you have), and you have an
Android Wear device paired with your smartphone, consider taking Flopsy Droid on a test flight for free now.
«We're excited about the potential of
Android Wear to extend the mobile OS
experience into wearable devices,» revealed Sony.
Compared to how easy it is to get an
Android Wear watch up and running, this
experience was a real pain.
The core software remains
Android Wear, however, and it's going to take Google to move that
experience forward.
The
experience is all that matters, and Tizen seems to offer quite the
experience with noticeably less hardware than your average
Android Wear watch.
But according to
Android Central, if it hits your watch without the
Wear update, you could be in for a slightly buggy
experience.
And the software
experience is somewhat hamstrung by
Android Wear, Google's operating system for wearable devices.
As of today, though, I have yet to
experience that one app — the Instagram — that makes me think I can't live without a smartwatch, so I place more value on the core functions of a watch, like the fitness - tracking and battery life of a Garmin or the notifications of an Apple or
Android Wear watch.
The refreshing minimalism carries over with a single button to control the watch and a vanilla
Android Wear 2.0
experience.
While this is still
Android Wear 2.0, meaning most of the software
experience will be exactly the same as every other smartwatch with the same version of software, the Movado Connect does offer something that many of the other watches won't, and that's the higher - grade of luxury and design.
Product differentiators so far are based primarily on the software functions of the devices, and with Apple's recent watchOS updates,
Android Wear devices seem to offer comparable
experiences.
Designed by a team of
experienced watch designers that have a rich history in creating fashionable and timeless watches, the attention - to - detail becomes apparent upon first glance as the device boasts a sparkling AMOLED 1.4 - inch display at 400 x 400 pixels resolution in 286 ppi at a 10000:1 high contrast ratio, making it the most vibrant
Android Wear smartwatch in the world.
Granted, it doesn't affect the
experience all that much, but it serves to create a sense that Google hasn't paid attention to enough little details to make using
Android Wear 2.0 as pleasurable as it should be.
Google doesn't let
Android Wear watchmakers tweak the operating system beyond adding extra apps and custom faces, so you're essentially getting the same OS
experience across every watch.
Unlike
Android phones and tablets, Google controls the entire software
experience on all
Android Wear devices, so you won't find any manufacturer customizations on your watch besides a handful of apps and watch faces.
Daydream and
Android Instant apps both kind of stuttered out of the gate, only to be rekindled at this years I / O, and who can forget about
Android Wear 2.0... one of the worst software update rollouts I have ever
experienced.
We said at the beginning of this review that the G Watch could be considered merely a display for
Android Wear, and that's pretty much the
experience we've gotten.
But if you're looking to get into
Android Wear — looking to
experience notifications, basic apps and interaction on your wrist, the LG G Watch is a simple and effective way to do so.