LG G Watch R

Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but most (all) of those product photos are faked. If you&#x27;re curious what it looks like on a real wrist:<p><a href="http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSCF7149.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.gizmodo.co.uk&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;DSCF71...</a><p>From full Gizmodo review here: <a href="http://gizmodo.com/lg-g-watch-r-review-worthy-of-your-wrist-even-if-andr-1652833562" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;lg-g-watch-r-review-worthy-of-your-wrist-...</a>

This page makes 360 separate requests and loads 55MB of assets. They did not minify or concatenate assets. It disables itself unless it is used at specific aspect ratios. It disables scrolling and requires clicking small triangles to navigate sideways.<p>Just so you can look at photos that are all fake.<p>Fire the designers.

In all the smartwatch reviews I have read, I fail to see the high-level overview: what kinds of tasks should I be able to accomplish with this kind of device, at all?<p>Are Android Wear devices only usable in a vicinity of my Android phone or can I use them without one? Could I use them with an iPhone, Firefox OS phone, Surface Pro tablet, 3G modem or any Wi-Fi source (Moto 360 does have Wi-Fi)?<p>Do Android Wear devices need apps written specifically for them, and&#x2F;or specific support in a tablet&#x2F;phone app. Say, I know there is a VK app for Android, but I&#x27;m not sure about smartwatch support. Should I be getting VK notifications (or whatever watch is good for) by default?<p>Could I pair a Wi-Fi-equipped smartwatch with a Bluetooth headset and get rid of a phone, with smartwatch providing VoIP connectivity over Wi-Fi?<p>What kinds (if any) of non-default configurations can I expect to use a device like that? (default being pairing it with an Android phone and a specifically supported app)

<p><pre><code> Facebook Alice Yang tagged you in a post: Jon, check out this song from utube, it&#x27;s aweso </code></pre> <a href="http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#outdoorstyle3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lg.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;gwatch&#x2F;index.html#outdoorstyle3</a><p>Pass, thanks.

I&#x27;d love to see a round smart watch that homaged the Rolex GMT look-and-feel and then utilized a rotating (and maybe clickable?) diver-style bezel for input (maybe like the 1st gen ipods) in addition to the touch screen.<p>Classic, understated look, but another few interesting dimensions of input.

The website is horrible. I hate that it dictates how your browser should be sized, with the brilliant text &quot;Please adjust your BROWER for optimal service.&quot; - <a href="http://cl.ly/image/2i3w2y3h3K35" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cl.ly&#x2F;image&#x2F;2i3w2y3h3K35</a>

Call me a nitpicker and you&#x27;d be right, but the screenshots in this[1] and other ads[2] where they showcase this watch for GPS navigation while on a bike (or motorcycle) where the watch is <i>not</i> doing a 90 degree rotation on the content area so you can read it while your hands are on some handlebars really bugs me. I guess it bugs me more than some model getting on a motorcycle wearing what looks like a blazer with no helmet or gloves, too.<p>But to make this comment, say, 20% hn worthy, can someone explain whether it&#x27;s unrealistic that I think the accelerometer should be able to figure out the &quot;holding handlebars with forward velocity&quot; scenario and orient the display properly?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#urbanstyle5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lg.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;gwatch&#x2F;index.html#urbanstyle5</a> [2] <a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=motorola_moto_360_leather_black&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;devices&#x2F;details?id=motorola_mo...</a>

I find it weird that these smartwatches don&#x27;t have GPS built in them. I feel like if you were to use it on your runs&#x2F;bikes, you&#x27;d prefer to just be able to take your watch rather than having both your phone and watch.<p>I could definitely see how excluding it would help price and battery life, but to have a selling point be &quot;it helps with fitness&quot; but with a caveat of &quot;oh, but you have to bring your phone with you too&quot; kinda kills the whole appeal.

I wish someone would flip the paradigm upside down. Put the whole computer in the watch and then have a dumb screen the size of a credit card that fits in your wallet. You can use that for talking on the phone, browsing the web etc. Make the watch primary and the big screen secondary.

Product apart, this website is horrible. I can&#x27;t scroll with my mouse. When I opened it on my vertical screen, all I had was a white background with &quot;please adjust your screen&quot;( <a href="http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/images/common/rotate_bg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lg.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;gwatch&#x2F;images&#x2F;common&#x2F;rotate_bg.jpg</a> )...<p>That&#x27;s horrible. I had never seen this before.

&quot;Take the Next Turn! Turn-by-Turn Navigation.&quot;<p>On a motorcycle, on the highway, looking down on your wrist and reading the directions off a watch is a sure shot way to get killed. What were these designers thinking?

Those photos are massively overexposed or have some strange HDR processing on them, but it&#x27;s lovely to see material textures and facial hair in such detail.<p>The one photo to sell &quot;checking your stocks&quot; is a funny one. &quot;I&#x27;m on a yacht looking to the horizon and I NEED to know whether I should BUY BUY BUY or SELL SELL SELL&quot;. What a witty photo.

I really wish the could name their products better. Their two watches right now are named:<p>- LG G Watch<p>- LG G Watch R<p>Fortunately, the product is fairly decent. (I&#x27;ve seen it in person.) I happen to have a Samsung Gear Live, which is quite comparable in terms of specs. I think that Android Wear probably needs another year (or 2nd generation of watches) to mature a bit more.

Perhaps a very naive question - how hackable is this?<p>I mean how hard is it to strip Android off all its phone-home Google goodness and have just the kernel, basic OS services with complete root access? I used to do a lot of embedded work, but I have to plead almost complete ignorance of Android. This watch though ... damn ... so many possibilities for making such a nice toy out of it.

Given the amount of big brand smartwatches that keep surfacing but don&#x27;t seem to be gaining traction (or at least doesn&#x27;t appear so) I get the feeling they are going to go the way of tablets - in other words &quot;there isn&#x27;t a tablet market, there&#x27;s an iPad market&quot;.

BE AWARE OF THE RECENT STATE OF YOUR (CURRENT) HEALTH<p>That&#x27;s... quite interestingly worded. It seems to suggest that it only supports repeated single readings on-demand, a shame for sport enthusiasts who would rather not be talking into their watch during the action.

&quot;Be aware of the recent state of your (current) health by monitoring your heart&#x27;s pulse&quot;<p>&quot;Stay fit, keep control of your body&quot;<p>&quot;Please adjust your browser for the optimal service&quot;<p>Guessing this is a translation of another site?

<i>The Skeuomorph is strong with this one.</i><p>Why isn&#x27;t there a single chronograph type clock face that displays the current date in an easily readable form and does&#x27;t clutter month and day of month all other the place? It&#x27;s just feels quite unimaginative to stick to the limitations of an mechanical apparatus when you&#x27;re using a digital display.<p>Is it possible to have some kind of reflective semi-translucent high contrast High-PPI E-Ink with with a P-OLED Backlight? Or have it flippable?

Why do these product images, all of them, look like a rushed photoshop slap-on hack? Does it mean that LG views this watch as an experimental throw-away project or something?

The fashion type ad is very good, and very different from most of the other smart watch ads that I&#x27;ve seen. The other ads focus on the watch and technology. The LG ad emphasizes the fashion aspect of the watch and is more consumer oriented which is probably the best thing to do when expanding the market to beyond the early adopters and techno types.

wow, that&#x27;s an obnoxious website. It won&#x27;t show anything except a promt to resize my browser window for &quot;optimal service&quot;. my browser is covering half a 27&quot; 2560x1440 screen, i think it&#x27;s probably big enough to show a picture of a wristwatch

This is the first smart watch I&#x27;ve seen that actually looks good. It&#x27;s clearly aiming to look as much as possible like a traditional watch when not actively being used.<p>It does look huge on the woman&#x27;s wrist on the second slide&#x2F;page&#x2F;section thing. Big watches tend to be a men&#x27;s fashion thing, so I wonder if this will present problems.<p>The heart rate feature seems really out of place and useless. What use is a recent history of your heart rate? Presumably there are plans to integrate more features into the health part of things, because at the moment it looks a lot like a &quot;because we can&quot; feature.

I haven&#x27;t seen the LG G Watch R nor the 360 but from the specs the LG G W R would be the one i would buy.<p>A better and more efficient processor makes things better on the LG.

love the jab at google watch. As a watch wearer, I can see myself getting on-board with this if the battery life is reasonable.<p>I doubt they will find too many female takers in its current form factor.

CAMERA None<p>Such a strange feature to highlight.

Wow. A &quot;responsive&quot; page that hates all but a couple specific aspect ratios. It literally won&#x27;t show you the page if you aren&#x27;t in an aspect ratio it expects. WTF? <a href="http://d.pr/i/12ZBj" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;d.pr&#x2F;i&#x2F;12ZBj</a>

I wish that this doesn&#x27;t require any phone. I wish that the watch could completely replace the smartphone. You&#x27;d look really stupid looking at your watch all the time while you are walking or in the restaurant.

On the 4th or 5th tab, the note ...<p>&quot;Idea for an all new park that delivers fun, friendship and safety for children of all ages.&quot;<p>... made me wonder, what have I done today to change the world in a good way? [Spoiler alert: sarcasm]