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I'm Richard Trenton with cnet.com with the Samsung Galaxy gear asking what's the time time you got a new watch galaxy gear is one of the first of a new generation of smartwatches it's an Android powered watch that talks to your phone and actually do lots of things that you can sometimes do on your phone but without having to take your phone out of your pocket so it's controlled by swiping through all these different home screens such as you've got your photo gallery there you've got your music you've got your pedometer to track your footstep so if you want to keep track of you're at your health is your Settings app and here's your other apps as well there's going to be 70 apps that launch such as find my device which allows you to find your watch by just pressing a button on your phone or vice versa so one of the things you can do with the Galaxy gear is you can make phone calls without having to even use your phone so you can either do that by going into your contacts or you can actually dial a number right here on the watch itself the default home screen home shows the the time and the temperature and the last time it was updated but you can also change it have different types of watch or show things like your calendar information right there on your wrist so when you swipe down the galaxy gear also has its own camera which allows you to take photographs and also short ten-second videos you can wear the gear is a watch on its own or you can connect it with a galaxy device like this certain Note 3 and you can do things like press play on the watch and music starts playing on the note when your gear watch is connected to your galaxy device you've got an app on your galaxy called the gear manager which allows you to do things like for example add apps or change the look of the clockface another useful feature when you've got the two devices paired is if you lose your watch you just hit find my watch and but what you will light up to tell you where it is so the gear has this silver metal face and it's connected to this kind of rubberized orange strap it's adjustable with this buckle so even if you've got bigger or smaller wrists it should still feel fairly comfortable it's it's quite a slam it's quite comfortable it's not as chunky as I think we were expecting the only thing I'm a little worried about is the big bulge for the camera on the bottom here which does stick out quite a bit so I'm going to try home and this is the samsung galaxy gear it's certainly one to watch for more from efo check out cnet.com slash