“Do not move products, enrich lives,” urged Steve Jobs. His Apple has often been gifted to suggest to consumers that they had always wanted, but did not dare to even imagine. Samsung, which in recent years has become a true competitor of the company from the bitten apple, tried to imitate the genius of Cupertino. Often succeeding to gnaw market share important. So, when it was rumored that Apple was preparing a new “object of Dreams,” the smartwatch, the Korean giant was already preparing countermoves. In the end, the coveted iWatch has never seen. Maybe it’s because Jobs and his successor Tim Cook, who thought that the market was not ready yet. Or that the technology was not up to par. Meanwhile, Samsung has left filter rumors, and then the product really, its Galaxy Gear. To fill a gap in the market, anticipate the expectations of a product. Or simply, to test the reactions of consumers.
FIRST IMPACT
The new Galaxy Gear is part of a new trend, that of technology “by wear. ” They include some time many gadgets and accessories that connect via Bluetooth to your smartphone, PC or to the tv screen. The Google Glass, glasses “smart” house of Mountain View, are part of this segment of the market. That will certainly grow a lot, but still no one knows how to predict and how much. The Galaxy Gear disappoint, from the start, the expectations of those who expected a clock-capable mobile phone to a smartphone without support. There are those who have the use of the fabled brand new curved screens, which would give the object a refined design and sophisticated. None of this: the Gear is a watch that needs a latest generation phone (Samsung obviously) in order to operate. At first glance, the design does not express great originality, in spite of the different colors available. In the box there is a ring that is used to charge the battery, and which also contains the NFC chip, which is useful to recognize immediately the phone (during a test Galaxy Note 3) the identity of Gear.
SPECIFICATIONS:
But let’s see the technical specifications. The screen is a super AMOLED, very low, just 1.63 inches and 320×320 resolution. 800 mhz processor, 4GB of internal memory and 512 MB of RAM. The camera on the strap is just 1.9 megapixel camera, small enough to take pictures. Difficult to “steal”, however, because the shutter sound does not seem – with the latest version of the updated software – can be switched off. The photos (and videos, with resolution up to 720p, so high) are automatically saved on your smartphone, and here, if you want to various online services, such as Google+. A heavy-duty use, it appears at once that the bluetooth connection it may be possible one day (or almost two) of operation with fully charged batteries, at Gear and smartphones. But what is the function that can make feel the need to own such a gadget? Perhaps the reading of text messages directly to your wrist. Or the speakerphone incorporated, which makes possible a phone “wrist”, to a volume still not high (if there is traffic, better approach the object ear). The application is useful if you are driving a car, like any other bluetooth handsfree.
applications, yet their early evolution, will definitely updated and improved. It is, basically, a version of sour. The first Android smartphone today would dwarf many techno-freaks. The Gear is a good jogging companion, the “multimedia controls” allows you to change music files and access the colume without removing the phone from his pocket, and the “pedometer” built-in allows you to keep track of the way, but with some limitations. You can not set the stride length, and without using the gps on the phone (much more accurate) you are likely to have a duplicate of little practical use.
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