Samsung Galaxy Gear: What can Samsung's Super SmartWatch - ABC Online

calling, texting, taking pictures: Samsung comes the rival Apple in business with smartwatch before. Prior to the IFA, the manufacturer showed the Galaxy Gear. FOCUS Online Mobile Phone Expert shows in the video, what can the clock.

Samsung’s Smart Watch Gear has a 1.63-inch touchscreen and a 1.9 megapixel camera. The clock weighs 168 grams and displays, for example, whether e-mail messages or new messages. They also remind you about appointments. The user can make or answer calls with it – it is enough for it to introduce the arm with the clock to your ear. Microphone and speakers are mounted in the closure of the clock.

Thanks speech recognition (“S Voice”), you can start a call with voice commands or ask about the weather. In the bracelet has an integrated camera, which can be a start wiping up on the display. To take pictures, you will no longer need to whip out the smartphone, stressed Pranav Mistry, head of Samsung’s development team in the United States, during the presentation of the clock ahead of the IFA in Berlin.

Pre-installed apps The Gear Galaxy comes with a number of preinstalled apps. Thus, applications for the news, “New York Times” or the Bloomberg Financial Service are already integrated. Also the game “Angry Birds” is. About the app Evernote can create notes or shopping lists on the clock abhaken.Die Gear Clock is optimized to work with the new smartphone Galaxy Note 3, the Samsung also 25 for the September announced. But with the Samsung S4 and several other smartphone models to Gear cooperate after a software update.

The clock The battery is supposed to work 25 hours without recharging. “With Gear, we propose a new chapter,” said Mistry. It was a “science fiction device”.

The Gear screen has a resolution of 320 by 320 pixels. For the movement functions of acceleration and a gyro sensor are installed. Gear connects wirelessly, for example, with the score 3 to synchronize alerts, messages or contacts. This way you can for example Serving a message on the clock and then seamlessly continue on the smartphone. Gear has a light stainless steel case with bracelets in six different colors.

Market researchers expect a jump in the first paragraph of the new business in the coming year. About five million smart watches are likely to be sold in 2014, estimates about the analytics firm Canalys. Also, according to media reports, Apple is working on a computer clock and secured in several countries to use the “iWatch”.

Overview: Samsung Galaxy Gear