Gadgetory

so you already kind of saw a lot during the initial set up that I did for the LGG watch when we unboxed it earlier this morning and now that Google i/o 2014 is starting to come to a close I thought I would just give you my experience my first impressions pretty much of the LGG watch now that I've used it for maybe around six to eight hours and I I got to tell you I really do like it a lot now I will give you this disclaimer that it's obvious that Android wear is and it's real in almost infancy really because it's going to be coming out very soon for the general markets the beta or the testing phase that I am a part of right now will be finishing into the next few days with the final release and a lot of other applications being released around July 7th so a lot of great applications are going to come out at that point that will add to the functionality but as far as what I was able to do today I did think a lot of it was really good and there are some holes in the functionality that I'm used to and other smartwatches like say the pebble but I think for the most part it does a great job in is a wonderful jumping-off point essentially when it comes to just the design itself the silicon band is really comfortable and I really don't have any problems with it I do see that the it will be able to take some splashes I was like washing my hands in the washroom earlier and they really didn't do any anything to the band or anything like that it's easy to clean as a result it is water-resistant and it will be able to withstand whatever you take you you throw at it you'll be able to wear this in the shower for example and be able to control your phone or your music or whatnot from there as far as the touch census sensitivity on the screen goes you do seem to have to push a little bit harder and you can't really have a delicate touch which I will admit I have from time to time with smartphones you don't you need to have a little bit more than a delicate touch when it comes to the screen and it won't necessarily be it's not it's not that's not responsive it's just I've had maybe just one or two instances where when I was swiping up and down on the actual screen it wasn't necessarily as responsive as I wanted it to get sort of try again maybe one or two more times but that only happened a couple times for the most part of the screen is wonderfully responsive it is a bright and vibrant screen it has it's able to show all of the elements really well especially with that material design you have the card in front with that background and it looks really wonderful but as far as functionality goes I have to give them a lot of credit because when you swipe to the right or rather to the left to get to the right of the card you do find from time to time that there's some extra functionality that you didn't expect to be there and that's that's really where my enjoyment with this was the one that I will show you right now is what was my favorite example in which I had a hangouts message from one of my best friends and when I swiped over to see what I would be able to do is that reply via hangouts and when I clicked on that or pressed on that I was able to dictate my response and that was absolutely awesome I thought that was great earlier on I did lament that I wasn't able to do more than just text people but it looks like you're able to reply to hangouts now you're not going to be able to initiate a hangout The Voice Recognition area but at the very least you'll be able to reply as they come along so if you reply swipe it away dismiss it it comes back over reply it keeps going like that that's perfectly fine I would like there to be more Google now voice commands that we'll be able to perform some of the some of the actions that I wish I would be able to do like for example I know that if you say ok Google that you play music or say play some music it will give you an I'm feeling lucky station that will give you a lot of music based upon your listening history and unfortunately that doesn't it I work for me while I do listen to everything from Michael Buble to Linkin Park from the old days to hip hop to huge of s and to even some EDM from time to time and I'm getting into jazz unfortunately I listen to hip-hop the most and I end up getting a lot of that instead of what I really want so I wish there was a way for me to say something like play music play playlist thumbs up just a thumbs up players from google play music or play play play list Gambino or play playlist John Coltrane you know I could I would be able to do that and if I have a playlist that's already set up then it would just play that and I'll be able to do that if anyone out there knows exactly that how to do that in Google now if there's a command that was it some saying that I'm just not getting why I did a google search and I didn't find it let me know and I will shout I'll give you a shout-out on the on the review but aside from that the other functionality that I feel like is missing is when you swipe over from the music from the music card swipe over to the left you have the next Gradius that's fine and great but there's no way for you to change the volume of the music that's playing with your phone and that's a functionality that was already available on an elbow which I'm coming from and it's something that I feel like should be there but it kind of is in and maybe an app of some sort or maybe just some just another card will be created for that I feel like the onus area is on the Google now team to create more functions more commands and whatnot in order to make the LGG watch even more robust than it is already and I'm sure the developers will be able to do that the final thing that happened with me at least and my first impression was I understand that this is a somewhat beta version of this device but navigation just didn't work okay Google navigate to Alamo Square well would you look at that well would you look at that alright well I mean it's a good thing I did this right after I was going to film just II just the footage of me making it fail to navigate to Alamo Square from here but it looks like the update that I just downloaded for maps literally the update that came from the from this morning was then updated again literally hours ago and I was able to update it just now and there you go navigation is actually working on the LG G watch so I'm a very happy man right now take back what I said just a second ago in this video that maps was not working and now it looks like it is so here we are we have a card 13 minutes of destination right there you could exit navigation use the app that is awesome and by the way to the people who were worried that you have way too many cards available and have to swipe through for literally everything that you want to look at that is not the case trust me unless you let you notifications get completely out of hand you are not going to have that much swiping to go through only in one instance that I have that problem and I had I did have a lot of notifications not to swipe all the way to the bottom to finally get to the music player to hit play again for my positive music that's the only time that I had that issue but for the most part if you just sort of swipe out if you just miss all your notifications and you're pretty good at that you're going to keep everything really clean that's not going to be a problem at all so really that's just sort of my first impressions on it as far as the design again goes I do think it is a comfortable design it does sit very squarely on my wrist but the silicone band is very very comfortable and really I don't think that there's anything wrong with the actual unit itself on my wrist all of these smartwatches are going to be large bases that's are something you're going to have to get used to at least of this generation is this more but all-in-all I do enjoy my time with the OGG watch I look forward to using it some more and I'll give you my full review in a little while and really show you especially after Android wear hips it's full version I'm probably will have to wait for my forward heel until after these devices actually ship out and all of the applications are in the Google Play Store for everyone to use so keep it tuned to Andra 34 all of that drop us some likes on our videos subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and remember that Android authority is your source for all things Android and Google IO