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Even before the competitors Apple busy with the Samsung “Galaxy Gear” the new device category. That should give a powerful boost of portable electronics. The clock also makes photos. From Thomas Heuzeroth Thomas Heuzeroth Biography and all articles by this author Facebook Google +
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it would prefer Samsung launched on Wednesday evening in Berlin Tempodrom his nemesis Apple probably answer: “We’re here already.” But the manager of South Korea have pinched it but then at the end when they presented their first Smart Watch.
At least that copying can not blame them now. Even before Apple iWatch has finished its part, Samsung ventures into its own creation. The “Galaxy Gear” takes by wireless technology Bluetooth wireless contact with the smartphone and shows, among other messages, and caller ID on.
For the South Korean manufacturer Samsung Berlin is now one of the big stages. Already last year, the group presented here have Galaxy Smartphone note 2, the Galaxy camera and several Windows 8 devices.
This year Samsung showed just before the start of the International Radio Exhibition (IFA), which starts on Friday, the Galaxy and the Galaxy Note Gear III. The event was streamed live to New York at Times Square.
Thinner, lighter, bigger, faster
The Galaxy Note 3 is a 5.68-inch display is basically a phablet, whereby a category between smartphones and tablets is described. JK Shin, head of the mobile division at Samsung Electronics had many innovations for the Note II quickly paraphrased. “It is thinner, lighter, bigger and faster ‘
Samsung has now a whole range of Galaxy devices with different screen sizes from S4 Galaxy Mini (4.3 inches) above the note (5.68 inch), The Galaxy Mega (6.3 inch) and Galaxy Tab 3 (7, 8, and 10 inch) range. The new grade 3 has a 13-megapixel camera.
But above all, the “Galaxy Gear” would attract attention. Samsung has begun the race for the smartwatch. According to reports, Google and Apple are also working on such a watch, Apple has made in several countries make proposals to secure the term “iWatch”.
Apple are still waiting for
But apparently, Apple plans to introduce until next year. Meanwhile, the iPhone has consolidated the developer of the Nike FuelBand, Jay Blahnik required. Google has confirmed the purchase of Wimm Smart watch specialist a few days ago.
Although Samsung now presses forward, the Group did not invent the category. Sony is already the second-generation mobile-clock on the market. That the market is ripe, the Pebble has shown. The project, which had its origin in the crowdsourcing platform “Kickstarter” was very successful.
Much like the Sony SmartWatch is also the “Galaxy Gear” especially a remote control for your smartphone. It shows the caller’s name, if he’s in the phone book.
makephotos with the clock
short text messages, calendar entries, and e-mails can be read on the clock without the smartphone needs to be touched it. But they also appear simultaneously on the smartphone display, which Samsung Smart Relay calls. Calls can be started by voice command. The Samsung engineers have come up with some. So the clock can answer calls that arrive on the smartphone. For this, the hand must be performed only to the ear. On the inner wrist strap buckle microphone and speakers are housed.
Samsung digital assistant called S Voice and works similarly to Siri at Apple. Samsung gear also can be asked in this way, for example, according to the weather.
Samsung “Galaxy Gear” has a 1.63 Super AMOLED display (4.1 inches diagonal) with sharp 278 dots per inch, which is touch sensitive. The Samsung Smart Watch weighs just 74 grams and has a 1.9 megapixel camera in the bracelet can be made with the photos and videos. The battery run time should be 25 hours.
Gear For the Galaxy, it will be a separate AppStore, developers can write applications for. The clock has a number of sensors, including a step-and accelerometer and a gyro compass.
Not yet known Price
The clock, which will be available in six colors, reportedly only works with Samsung smartphones such as the new Note 3 For the Galaxy 2 Galaxy 3 and there will be software updates. The Grade 3 and the Galaxy Gear are from 25 September is available in 149 countries worldwide from October then. Prices for the devices were not disclosed.
experts expect new growth spurts through innovations in wearable electronics. So Google has already announced that next year’s data glasses for sale. According to forecasts by market researcher Canalys, the sales of Smart Watches will rise to more than five million by 2015, a tenfold increase in sales, which is expected for this year.
However, this is only a tiny part of the watch market. To estimate the market researchers that more than one billion watches were sold last year. “Smart Watches are the most important new product category to be in consumer electronics since the iPad has defined the market for tablets,” said Chris Jones, Canalys.
Accustomed to the smartphone user to the clock?
But only a remote control for mobile phones should not be the SmartWatch. Rather, developers need a platform that is designed for that form factor, it is at Canalys.
text is questionable, however, whether there really engage smartphone users in great numbers to the watches. Although they have now learned to recharge their phone every day. But with the regular watches charging is rather unusual.
is possible that the forecasts but also too pessimistic. According to a representative survey, the Bitkom presented this week, wants more than one in seven Germans definitely wear a smart watch on your wrist in Germany. That would be about eleven million potential buyers.
Overall, 38 percent of Germans interested for such a clock, it is the Bitkom. “Following smartphones and tablet computers, smart watches can be the next great market success,” says Bitkom CEO Bernhard Rohleder.
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