Android Wear

Brings notifications and so much more to your wrist

Android Wear is controlled by gestures. Swiping left and right will scroll you through notifications and cards, swiping up and down will bring up different commands. You can also customize and change your watch faces as well.

Additionally, notifications will sync between a phone and a watch so when you're dismissing a notification on one, it disappears on the other as well. When you get a notification, your watch will vibrate to let you know.

Android Wear will show information like when your package will be delivered, and using the GPS location from your phone, when you get home, Android Wear will remind you to check for that package if you were gone all day. It could also track footsteps and allows you to use the microphone to activate Google Now and Google search. Android Wear watches will be water resistant at launch.

Samsung Gear Live and LG G Android Wear smartwatches available to pre-order today

LG G Watch 

LG’s G Watch, by contrast, has a 1.65-inch (280 x 280 pixels) display, 4GB storage and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 processor on board. It measures 37.9 x 46.5 x 9.95mm and weighs a little more than Samsung’s at 63 grams.

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Samsung Gear Live

The Gear Live’s specs include a 1.2Ghz processor and a 1.63-inch AMOLED (320 x 320 pixels) screen. Officially, it measures up at 37.9 x 56.4 x 8.9 mm, and weighs in at 59 grams.

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