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hi I'm Scott Steinem what do I have on my wrist well this is one of two new Android wear watches which are available forward or now this is Google's entry into wearable tech on the wrist and the LG G watch is one of three there's also the Samsung gear live and the Moto 360 but the Samsung and the LG ones are the only two available right now the motor one is going to be later in the summer so what is the difference between these two and what do they do the LG G watch is the more expensive it's 229 and it's got a 280 x 2 80 IPS LCD screen it's a square screen and it's got a comfy rock band it's like a silicone rubber type of band see attached or like a regular watch band it actually has a very comfortable feel very nice sleek materials glass on top and metal in the middle black or white and it uses android wear what is that exactly well we don't even really know because what we've been told is not exactly what it's going to become right now it's basically Google services you're going to talk to your wrist or you're going to swipe through notifications which come up like cards a lot like Google now if you use an android phone so if you want to quickly ask it who's the foot 12th president of the United States or where can I get pizza around here or where's the Moscone Center it'll pop up something really quick you can also check the weather and it will also send notifications to you from all the places that you get notifications if you have a pebble watch or if you manage notifications where we have another smart device you already know what that's about so we'll get things from Twitter Facebook your emails and it can get kind of crazy but you can also manage that back on an Android wear app that runs on your phone this only runs as a companion to android phones android 4.3 or above is a whole list of compatibilities you have to have Bluetooth 4.0 and there is a little bit of storage on this watch for gigs and there's 512 megabytes of RAM unclear what that means in terms of how it will run apps and there will be apps a number of Android apps are going to run and then load onto this android wear watch once they're available there aren't really any right now there are also moments where I can look at something on the watch or search for something and then press a button and up on my phone if I want to read more so it's meant to be kind of a companion app experience between the watch and the phone the LG G watch is also ip67 water-resistant the same type of water resistance that you would see on things like Samsung's gear watch's battery life right now it's hard to tell it's got a 400 milliamp battery and it's getting a bad day of use stay tuned for full battery tests but that's certainly less than other watches out there and it means you're gonna need to charge this thing pretty much every day that's if you keep the screen on all the time it goes into sort of a power-saving dimming mode but you can also have that screen turn off all together after you've been using it for a few seconds and there are no buttons on this you've got to tap the screen or you've got to activate it or talk to it so it gets a little disconcerting no way to figure out how you can override that with a button so what else you get in the box you get this watch you also get a little magnetic charging cradle that is micro USB and the plug and the plugs in here pretty nicely as sticky kind of gel on the bottom so it'll stick to a table and allow you to put that by your nightstand and charge it the LG G watch actually feels better than it looks and it's one of the thinner of the Android wear watches but at this point early Android wear software and there are more Android wear watches to come at least the Moto 360 probably more so stay tuned and see what's coming they're going to be a lot of these things and we're gonna have to see what the apps feel like to I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at Android wear on the LG G watch you