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hey it's Josh Bazar from mentor Authority what's going on everybody and here it is I am officially in possession of an LG G watch thanks to google here at i/o we're able to pick between the gear live and the G watch and I opted for the LG now we're going to go through a quick unboxing of this just take a look at what is inside of the box right now and here we go going to go ahead and break that seal and then I'll go through the initial setup now there is a bit of an interesting story there if you saw that you are able to buy the G watch in the gear live on the Google Play Store yesterday but they are not shipping it right away and I'll explain that as to why and here we are this is a gia watch right here you got the piece of plastic on here here is the screen now we do have a pretty sizable bezel all the rounds of the screen but we're going to go ahead and just kind of put that aside for the moment I'll go ahead and just take it out of the area and I'll give you my impressions on that in a second but let's see what else is in the box of course we do have the AC adapter for the cord here is the charging cradle now this is an interesting part obviously we need to have a charging cradle for a device like this because you can't just really put a port on there might make it look a little unseemly but here it is is the charging cradle that will go into that you watch her go into and it's very squared out it's actually not too unattractive it's just sort of a square that goes on the back so you are actually going to have to put this on on the back in order for you to charge the G watch but that is the charging cradle and then finally we have of course a micro USB cable now that's pretty much it aside from a multilingual manual that is right here and that's pretty much everything that comes with it obviously the setup with Android wear the app on your Android phone is going to be more important but this is essentially what we have inside of the box of the LG G watch and here we go this is the actual watch itself it looks like as far as the band goes we have a silicon band it's definitely not leather I'll tell you that much like the Moto 360 but that's perfectly fine silicone bands will allow it to have water resistance and it will be able to bounce back from a bunch of splashes I'll be pretty durable as well I think it's that's going to be perfectly fine it also will be replaceable I think I'm going to put my wideband on here it looks like I'll be able to do that I'll try that a little bit later but here is the general design of the watch itself what we have is this very square face right here with the pretty sizable bezel all around so maybe not a lot of people are going to enjoy that but I think it's going to work out just fine especially if the functionality is there after that we're going to head over to the back I'll go ahead and peel this plastic off right now which will be great and there you go nice and easy now one thing I did think was pretty interesting about the charging cradle is obviously it's magnetic but since the watch is able to lie flat if you're going to charge it just have it connected already to your microUSB port into the wall and just lay it right on top it's pretty easy to just throw it right on top so charging this thing should be pretty much a breeze you do have to have the watch completely open in order to do this but it's actually kind of nice now here's an interesting part there are no buttons on the actual device itself which might come as a bit of a surprise because one of the things that I was trying to figure out was how to turn the damn thing on looked inside of the operating manual and I found that you have to plug it in while it's in the charging cradle as you can see right here and it will turn on after being connected to power now that is kind of weird but I guess it makes a little bit of sense because once your watches dead you'll watch is dead so you have to plug it in you have to get it charged and then it will turn on and then just work from there so here we go and there it is LG life's good life's alive at least it might be as much but here is the initial boot up now the reason why this is a little bit interesting is because Android wear is actually not available on the Play Store yet I had to go through a few different channels that were provided by a Google in order to get a testing version of Android wear let it connect it at my portable battery in my pocket right now it's connected to here but here we go it should only take a couple minutes to pair with your watch and here we go make your watch smart Android wear just gives you a kind of an idea google fit it has a focus here inside of the introduction contact recognition location google now of course Google now is sort of the crux of where everything will be so I hit accept choose a device G watch f11 see you can see a lot of people getting their gear lives alive right now and that's really interesting but my is the G watch f1 CC pair with one plus one hit pair on both devices and here we go nice impaired you can turn on the watch notifications so we have to head on over to the notification settings and make sure Android wear is enabled so this isn't too far from what the pebble had you do when you did it and looks like you're all done so we're going to go to the watch and see what we're going to do with that so here here's a look at some of the settings that are available you have the screen always-on silence connected phone event calendar cards debugging over Bluetooth of course and after that hide cards and dim screen always show so there's just a few of the options that are available in the Android wear application we're just taking a look at these as we're waiting for the watch to initialize it looks like it's still downloading it's maybe about 60% there at the moment and there it is we have the operating system finally up it looks like I have quite a bit of battery life so I'm going to go ahead and just and take it out of here it says here you're all set swipe up to get started let's take a look great twice try swiping again this record show I bought an IQ throughout the day keep swiping you can move cards when you're done with them swipe to remove the card removed cars will show up again when they're useful swipe left for more details and again for particular actions that ok got it because try to dismiss when you're in a nap touch anywhere on the clock and say an action such as show me my steps show me my steps zero because I have not moved at all I'll go and dismiss that one last thing to dim the screen cover it with your palm interesting so let's see what that looks like there you go so it looks like I have a few interactions already MA then are the notifications are already coming in that's talent that you're looking at so if I were to click on here you could see those you can open it on the phone already come up I have another notification from Google Auto Backup so those are that's an example of the photo that was backed up to Google and I could share it from here okay so you do have some nice functionality here open on phone is always going to be one that's available and as we go through I have yeah I present account and an email I have a new friend request from one of my friends five minutes of 24 hour fitness nearby that I was kind of trying to check out and right now it is 59 degrees in San Francisco if I take a look at the six minutes to there it shows me the map that's where I am and then it shows where it is wow that's actually pretty interesting you can navigate open on phone what's the next one a system update is ready that's where the one plus one I haven't updated it yet then Instagram open on phone is always available there over here is a install update and open on phone so you actually have the actual notifications that you get on your phone are pretty much translated into a nice way on to the watch itself that's really nice Instagram coming up again zero steps and there's the last one so that's the initial set up in all the notifications that I had on my phone are all coming up here in a very nice way already if I wanted to take a look at what this was you have to open on phone see now that's just I just dismissed that then I'm here to open on phone so it's just showing me the notification I can't necessarily read it all now here is one for Gmail and now that is nice how you are able to actually start scrolling through and read it looks like pretty much the entire thing so that's good I will give you a first impressions video on this in a few hours after I get a better look at what's going on here let me unmute it real quick and there you go unmuting means you get all of your notifications on here it actually has a really nice interface it looks really attractive it really doesn't look that bad at all and after I do some function I probably mostly texting or making notes or whatnot I'm going to go ahead and give you a first impressions video just kind of showing you what it is that I feel the operating system is able to do for me so keep it tuned to Android 34 all of the best coverage and make sure you stay tuned here for the rest of our Google i/o coverage drop us some like subscribe if you haven't already and remember that Android Authority comm is your source for all things Google i/o