LG G Watch Release Date, Price, Specs and Reviews

The new LG G Watch is a touchscreen-operated watch that allows you to use Twitter, change songs playing on your smartphone, and easily check your latest Gmail messages all with the turn of your wrist, or tap of a screen.

Android Wear, the platform that runs the watch is one of the best smartwatch operating systems out there, according to several online tech websites. 

The watch can operate using voice commands, either by saying the words "OK Google" after the screen wakes up, or by tapping on the screen and speaking. The watch also has technology that detects when you turn your wrist to look at the screen. After the movement, a voice-command ready screen appears

Release date:

The LG G watch which has a release date of Jun 25, 2014.

The cost:

The watch can be purchased for around $229 on the Google Play Store, or around $250 on other online websites.

The specs:

The touch screen has a quick response, with an up down, left, right swiping feature that controls the watch's functioning. It runs capably with its 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 CPU with 512MB of RAM.

The LG G Watch watch is  3.9 x 2 x 0.8 inches; 3.5 ounces

A Google-based watch, powered by Android technology, is in the top ranks of wearable technology running on the Android operating system. 

The G watch has a metal bezel encasing a 1.65-inch IPS LCD display with a good pixel-count to see images in sharp definition.

Battery life for the LG G Watch isn't the greatest, and requires daily charging using the magnetic charging pad what uses a USB-connected wall charger. The 400 mAh power cell should give you up to two days of operable battery power.

The reviews:

The watch design is perhaps the most criticized aspect of the product. According to one Amazon.com reviewer, the watch lacked tremendously in this department. "The design is, to put it nicely, very bland. A simple black square surrounded by a thin band of gold (although it looks more silver than gold) and a white rubber band. One of my biggest gripes about the design could be said for most current smartwatch makers: the included bands are cheap, ugly," the reviewer wrote. "Since watches are generally a fashion accessory, would it be too much to ask that they include a band people would ACTUALLY wear?? It's like they all get their bands sourced from the same cheap maker. It shows they don't really care about the presentation of their product.

Another concern about the watch is its durability. As tech website knowyourmobile.com notes, "A wristwatch is something which is going to get knocked, scratched and bumped accidentally several times a day, and despite the Gorilla Glass screen and metal casing, we can't imagine that LG's timepiece is going to remain pristine and scuff-free for very long." The article does give the watch points for it's water and dust-proof capabilities.

The utilitarian design, however, doesn't take away from the computing power of this smartwatch, which is still widely considered among the best of the three Android Wear devices on the market.