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CNET Editors' Take September 4, 2013 10:30 AM PDT
BERLIN -- The Galaxy Gear is a rumour no longer.
Samsung today officially fired its first salvo in the wearable tech wars, unveiling its smartwatch at the IFA show in Berlin Germany. The product will be released around the world on 25 September at the same time as the new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 -- except for customers in the US and Japan, who will need to wait until October.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear is one of those gadgets that you have to have in your hands to like. Before and even after I'd seen it, I was plagued with questions Samsung has yet to answer: Will it be really expensive? How long will the battery really last? Are there enough apps? Is it, in fact, entirely pointless?
But when I actually strapped the Gear on my wrist, I was won over. The Gear is a smartwatch, a wrist-worn touch-screen timepiece that talks to your phone, so you don't have to be forever fetching your phone from purse or pocket. It sits on your wrist and happily controls your music, tracks your exercise, installs your favourite apps -- it even makes phone calls. Unveiled at technology extravaganza IFA 2013 alongside the Note 3, the Android-powered Gear is intended to lead what is expected to be a new generation of smartwatches and wearable gadgets. (Significantly, though, the Gear will only be compatible with the Note 3 at launch.) Smartwatches are designed to cut through the noise of your phone, with its apps and games and notifications and social networks and alerts and alarms and little red numbers shouting for your attention -- and the Gear manages that with a playful elegance. This isn't about high-spec or high-def or high-anything else; so in this First Take, let's see what it's like to strap one of these things to your wrist.
I was charmed by the combination of simplicity with function: it's incredibly easy to control, yet does enough useful things to have this gadget fan convinced I need it. Weighing in at 73.8g, it's a lot less chunky than I expected -- although you may feel differently if your wrists are daintier than mine -- and will in fact feel practically slimline to anyone who's ever worn a musclebound exercise tracker like a Nike+ or Adidas MiCoach sporty watch.
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Powered by an 800MHz processor and 512MB of RAM, the touch interface is sleekly responsive, and the 1.63-inch, 320x320-pixel super AMOLED screen enormously bright and clear. White text and simple icons pop from the background colour of your choice, each function sitting in its own clear, friendly square that you can swipe between to find the one you want.
The Galaxy Gear has a metal face and -- hang on a minute: simple icons on clear, friendly squares? That sounds familiar...
Yes, before we go any further, we should address the fact that the interface of the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch is basically Windows Phone.
Similarity to Windows Phone
Windows Phone is Microsoft's operating system for mobile phones, and consists of white text and simple icons that pop from friendly, clear squares in the background colour of your choice. See the resemblance?
Where a Windows phone has a grid of these live tiles on its screen, the Galaxy Gear shows you one tile at a time to keep things as clear as possible on the small
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