After many months of waiting, the Mountain View-based company has finally released the final version of Android Wear 2.0, a version with which Google wants to equate the functions of Android Wear devices to Apple's Apple Watch. But although the Android Wear 2.0 version has been presented, the update will not be for all compatible terminals yet for a few months, which is a new delay for all users who at the time bought a terminal compatible with this version and who must be a bit fed up with Google's sloppiness in this regard.
Google has taken advantage of and presented the two new smartwatches from LG that have been jointly designed with Google. We are talking about LG Watch Sport and the LG Watch Style. The main difference between the two terminals is found both inside and outside the devices, which also logically influences their final retail price.
LG Watch Style
The LG Watch Style offers us the most economical model of this alliance, with a $ 249 starting price. This circular dial watch is made of steel on the front and plastic on the back. It is resistant to water and dust with IP67 certification.
LG Watch Style Specifications
The LG Watch Style has dimensions of 42,4 x 45,7 x 10,79 mm with a screen of 1,2 inches (360 × 360) with a density of 299 dots per inch with Gorilla Glass 3 protection. device we find a 240 mAh battery, the Snapdragon Wear 2100 at 1,6 Ghz, 4 GB of storage and all this managed by 512 MB of RAM.
Like most models available on the market, this device has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Which we miss is an NFC chip to be able to make payments from the mobile phone and the heart rate sensor, something inexplicable for a terminal with that price.
LG Watch Sport
The Watch Sport is the high-end model of the two new models that Google has designed in collaboration with LG. It will be priced at $ 349$ 100 more expensive than the Watch Style model. It is also resistant to water and dust with IP67 certification.
LG Watch Sport Specifications
We see the extra 100 dollars reflected in a larger size of the device that has dimensions of 45,4 x 51,21 x 14,2 millimeters it is made entirely of stainless steel. The screen is also larger than the Style model, reaching 1,38 inches with a resolution of 480 × 480 and a density of 348 dots per inch with Gorilla Glass 3 protection.
Inside we find a 430 mAh battery, the same processor as the Style model, the Snapdargon 2100 but with a clock speed of 1,1 Ghz and accompanied by 756 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. Regarding the connections, we find that it has Wifi, bluetooth, NFC and LTE, in addition to a heart rate sensor, barometer, gyroscope, accelerometer and gyroscope.
What's new in Android Wear 2.0
As we saw in the last Google I / O, which will soon be one year old, Android Wear 2.0 has adopted some of the functions that are already available in watchOS. The most striking are the new spheres to show the time, spheres that we can customize by adding the famous complications of the compatible applications that we have installed on our device.
Google wants to reduce dependence on the smartphone, be it iOS or Android, and has created its own application store for smartwatches, a store that can be found in the terminal itself, so that we can install and run applications directly on it without depending at all on our smartphone.
Android Wear 2.0 too offers us support for Android Pay, which allows payments to be made through the smartwatch, just like we can do with the Apple Watch. At the moment it is not known if Google will allow the payment solutions of other companies to make use of the NFC chip, but everything indicates that it will be unlikely.
Google Assistant is natively integrated into the system so that we will be able to start conversations with our terminal to help us carry out the task or work that we need at any given time. At the moment there is no scheduled date for its launch to the rest of the compatible devices, but if you do not want to continue to piss off the few manufacturers that continue to bet on this type of wearables, it should not take long or in the end you will be left alone by betting on Android Wear. And, if not, at the time.
Smartwatches compatible with Android Wear 2.0
- ASUS ZenWatch 2 & 3,
- Casio Smart Outdoor Watch
- Casio PRO TREK Smart
- Fossil Q Founder
- Fossil Q Marshal
- Fossil Q Wander
- Huawei Watch
- LG G Watch R
- LG Watch Urbane & 2nd Edition LTE
- Michael Kors Access Smartwatches
- Moto 360 2nd Generation
- Moto 360 for Women
- Moto 360 Sport
- New Balance RunIQ
- Nixon Mission
- polar M600
- TAG Heuer Connected.