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The SmartWatch Samsung Galaxy Gear
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Everything a smartphone can be just as – in the form of a wristwatch. The mobile phone maker Samsung is in Berlin before the SmartWatch Galaxy Gear. But the elaborate presentation deceives hardly conceal the fact that the Koreans are in the market for smart devices on the wrist by no means alone.
JK Shin is not a good actor. He does not have to be. The man responsible for the mobile division at Samsung – which is why he gets applause even now, as he jokes plenty of awkward on stage at the Tempodrom. While he extols the virtues of another smartphone from Samsung, it beeps suddenly. “Oh, I’ve just received a message on my clock.” Whispers in the hall.
Exactly one year ago had Samsung, also the start of the International Radio Exhibition (IFA), loaded to a mysterious event at the Berlin Tempodrom. It should, which hinted to go to a new smartphone. Unfortunately, a week before Nokia wanted to show its latest model. So the Finns sent some guerrilla marketing in the hall, craning posters up in your own design – and invited the journalists to their own presentation. By the Koreans, so the message to Nokia did not steal the show.
lot has happened since then. The Finns had to relinquish the title of the largest mobile phone manufacturer. Worse still, the once powerful group will soon be only a division of Microsoft. And Samsung? The Koreans, now the undisputed number one among the mobile phone manufacturers, already set to work to put the world with the next generation of gadgets in enthusiasm. A wristwatch called Galaxy Gear, indicating a fact that just calling someone.
No good actor JK Shin
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Faster than Nokia, faster than Apple
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that Samsung was once again faster than Nokia, which anyway is not much in the world of technology. The Korean company was also faster than Apple. The company from Cupertino also tinkers on a networked clock and has invited for next Tuesday to a performance. But it looks very much as if it will be there only to see a cheaper iPhone -. IWatch and no
Although the Galaxy
Gear The screen is too small to enter it as a text. And he is not too flexible. For this, it can also wipe back and forth like a smartphone or a tablet. By finger swipe to the side can be selected from the various functions. By finger swipe downward can snap a photo. A small camera is in the Galaxy Gear Bracelet, which is available in six different colors. To read e-mails, you can also switch onto the smartphone. A radio chip provides the connection. Phone goes but even so – assuming one feels stupid not before, like Michael Knight to keep the watch to his ear and it going to babble. Even after the weather you can inquire orally at the Galaxy Gear. End of the month the thing should be to have in Germany.
Samsung Galaxy Gear The clever clock from Korea
Is it a clock? Is it a phone? Samsung is on the edge of the IFA in Berlin’s SmartWatch Galaxy Gear ago. The touchscreen device for the wrist connects to the smartphone displays text messages, takes pictures of the bracelet. And you can call it even, even if that probably looks a bit silly. The presentation in the live blog for future reference.
all possible, which makes it far with his smartphone
Is the networked watch now so after the smartphones and tablets the next big thing in the world of mobile devices that are used to help in all situations? If you believe the Bitkom, so Samsung can hope to eleven million potential customers in Germany alone. More than one in seven Germans want definitely wear a smart watch on your wrist, as is apparent from a mandate from the Bitkom survey. Among the 14 – to 29-year-olds it is even one in four. Now Bitkom is not an independent observer in this matter. Because of the association are many companies that do their business with services for the mobile Internet -., And the hope that a similar app-economy developed around the wrist like once to smartphones and tablets
Galaxy Gear will also run on the Android operating system developed by Google. So all is what makes it so far with his smartphone, even with the clock possible: Apps that a point the way, reveal how the stock price is or remind you of an appointment. But there are also new possible scenarios. Sensors are designed to help make the clock a virtual fitness trainer. You can also monitor at night to sleep. According to the survey Bitkom wish the Germans that a smart watch that measures distance traveled while jogging – or the blood pressure to automatically inform the doctor if necessary. In addition, many would like to use it as a navigation device so the music can be select and SMS or e-mails show it.
The competition is planning smart watches
$ 25 billion was spent worldwide last year for apps. If the small programs are still running in the future on another device, maybe something more to it. Others have already discovered the business around the smart watch: Google has recently secured the SmartWatch specialists Wimm. Smaller European companies such as the Italian company I’m Watch and the French supplier Vea Digital, but also Japanese companies rely on the trend. Toshiba has unveiled a prototype at the beginning, which is to recognize its owner on the pulse – and automatically shuts down if someone else digs the smart clock. Sony SmartWatch brought his last year in the German stores. And on the Internet platform Kickstarter, where inventors show their ideas and seek donors, Pebble for example, has recently found support so much more than any other project. Ten million dollars were there together for the clock with connection to the smartphone.
But there are also companies that have already tried and then left yet again with such a smart watch. Microsoft for example. Ironically. That group, which has now caught Nokia’s mobile phone division for 5.4 billion euros. Microsoft released in 2004 along with the watchmaker Fossil is a smart watch out. The next time also delivered news, sports scores, horoscope and traffic jam alerts – and yet was not a success
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