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Apple announced the Watch with much fun fare and as an apple user you may be quite excited to get your hands-on and try this device. You may be a die hard fan of Apple products and may be you are planning to buy the apple watch. But the Watch launched as a premium product rather than a consumer product. And likewise you know just like the "cheapest" iPhone 5c the Watch is also costly. So in this post I decided to tell you guys whether you should buy the Apple Watch or just be satisfied with the "Quartz" watch you have.
Apple always stays ahead of the other companies by offering premium crafted devices which both perform great and look great. Apple has also done this with Watch by crafting its screen in sapphire and offering different versions like Sport, Edition for different sets of people. Watch is customisable with different colour bands making it even more beautiful for different occasions. But the main problem lies in the pricing of the Watch which starts from at a lower price and goes all the way up to $10000.
As shown in the above picture, the expected price of watch in India is around Rs.25000 which is mentioned in the website of www.mysmartprice.com. So anyone living in India can opt for other options like the Moto 360 or the other android smartwatches if they find the Apple Watch expensive. The Android smartwatches are way more cheap and offers great functionality combined with the sweet ui of lollipop. And to add to that you could just hack into your Android Wear to work it with the iPhone.
I am pretty sure you wont hack into an Apple Watch as it is more secure and anyways who wants to hack a $10000 watch? So this is the conclusion part - If you own an android phone and want a compatible watch buy watches powered with Android and if you own a iPhone and a die hard fan of Apple products and if you can shell out thousand dollars for a premium watch opt for the Apple Watch.
If you ask me what I would do I will neither buy the Android smartwatches nor the Apple Watch. The evolution of smartwatches have just begun and I will wait for a year for the smartwatches to become more "smart".
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When it comes to wearables and smartwatches, Android Wear is a step in the right direction. No, it’s not perfect – not yet anyway. The feeling is fairly uniform here at Pocketnow that Android Wear feels more like a “technology preview” than a final, polished product. All that having been said, I’m wearing my LG G Watch on my wrist right now. It pretty much lives there.
Products powered by Android Wear are currently available from LG and Samsung, and the Moto 360 should be coming soon. We’ve also heard of an Asus smartwatch and a round G Watch that we expect to see at IFA. All this is very good news for Android Wear, and for everyone who has already taken the plunge and strapped a Google-powered wearable on their wrist.
Unlike other smartwatches (including those powered by Samsung’s Tizen and Pebble), Android Wear takes a different approach. Apps are developed for your smartphone or tablet, just like they always have been, but can be extended to push additional functionality to your Android Wear device – if the developers so desire. There’s no special app store, or even any special apps (per se) for Android Wear, it just extends the apps that you already have and already use – or vice versa, depending on your perspective.
It’s clear that Google is putting a lot of emphasis on Android Wear, rightly so, and we’re seeing some very impressive hardware on the horizon. Were I a betting man, I’d put my money on Android Wear over any of the competition. I don’t think I’m alone in this sentiment.
That being the case, why is Samsung doubling down with Tizen?
Samsung Wearables
Samsung has an impressive array of wearables for your wrist, including, but not necessarily limited to the Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, Gear Fit, and most recently, the Gear Live - the latter runs Android Wear, the others do not. Part of that is because Samsung’s offerings pre-date Android Wear. It makes sense that Sammy had to “go it alone” and break the proverbial ice with its own OS for its wearables, but that’s not exactly what happened. Samsung toyed around with Android on a watch – Android, mind you, not Android Wear. Later, Samsung “updated” its Android-powered watch – by replacing Android with Tizen.
Remember back when the iPad was just taking off and all the Android OEMs were scrambling to put together a tablet powered by Android? Who was at the head of that pack? That’s right: Samsung. Google asked OEMs to back down, and wait for a version of Android that had been specifically developed for tablets. Many OEMs complied, and waiting until Android Honeycomb was released. Others pushed ahead with tablets powered by Android Gingerbread, despite Google’s warnings. Now we’re seeing something similar evolve out of devices with smaller screens, rather than the later ones found in tablets. Most OEMs are waiting for Google, but Samsung is out in front, doing its own thing – again.
Samsung is pushing the boundaries of what can be done with a smart watch, no question there, but to do so, it has had to forge its own path. Now that Android Wear is out, along with Samsung’s own watch powered by the OS, the Gear Live, I’d expected Samsung to let its own “proprietary” watches fade into history.
That’s apparently not what’s happening.
Rumors of a Gear 3 with Tizen to be announced at IFA have surfaced. According to our source familiar with the hardware, instead of the 1.6-inch flat square screen on the Gear 2, the Gear 3′s would be slightly rectangular, and a bit taller than the Gear 2 - with thin side bezels and a very pronounced curve to it. As far as software goes, since it’s said to be powered by Tizen, we’d expect iterative improvements upon what we’ve already seen on Samsung’s Gear line up.
Why Tizen?
Why is Samsung putting so much stock in Tizen? Since the company has already invested so much into Android development, isn’t developing for two operating systems splitting time and resources? You bet it is! But Samsung knows that Tizen is more lightweight than Android, and every bit as capable an OS (in theory, at least). Samsung also has more liberties to play with Tizen (and devices powered by that OS) than it does with Android or Android Wear. This lets Samsung experiment (on us) with rapid development cycles and numerous products almost simultaneously. Samsung is learning from this iterative process – and the industry is watching (no pun intended).
Even though I suspect Android Wear is going to win out in the mid- to long-term, Samsung is taking the lumps and learning the lessons for all of us with its devices – powered by its OS: Tizen.
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Another smartwatch entrant is coming soon and it looks like it will be one of the few watches not packing Android Wear. Hewlett-Packard is teaming up with Gilt, a designer label discount site, and U.S. fashion designer Michael Bastian to create a smartwatch slated for release this fall.
The trio are working on an unnamed luxury smartwatch that will be compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones, as first reported by Fashionista and Hypebeast. Like other smartwatches, the HP wrist wear will show email and text notifications, music player controls, weather, stocks, and news updates.
Since it works with Android and iOS handsets, however, the software onboard is unlikely to be Android Wear, which is compatible only with Android devices.
There's no word on pricing for the smartwatch, but early images suggest this watch will be far more attractive than the plain black squares we've seen recently from LG and Samsung, as is more suitable for the luxury watch crowd.
Similar to the Moto 360, the Bastian-HP-Gilt watch will be round with an overall design meant to imitate the dashboard of a luxury vehicle. The watch will feature a 44mm stainless steel case, inlaid button controls, lighted chronograph, and interchangeable watch bands, according to Hypebeast.
The upcoming luxury smartwatch will be the first of its kind, but it's still part of a recent smartwatch explosion that includes Android Wear devices, Samsung's Gear line, and Sony's long-running smartwatches.
A smartwatch with an attractive design will be key if smartwatches are to ever gain popularity beyond the gadget lust set, however. And the new HP-Bastian watch just might be the first watch to do that.
But with HP appearing to go it alone for the device's software, it's not clear how useful or worthwhile this watch will be. Despite their ho-hum looks, the Android Wear smartwatches from LG and Samsung are very useful since they tap seamlessly into the Google ecosystem. HP's software solution will need to be both sleek and functional to justify why anyone would want to buy a luxury smartwatch—regardless of how good it looks.
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