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LG Watch Urbane smartwatch snazzes up Android Wear with glossy metal

2015-03-02
Android wear is putting on its black tie I'm Scott Stein in Barcelona and there's a race on to create more style of smartwatches the LG watch urbane with a funky sounding name like urbane you'd think it would try to be something you want to go out in the town with right well remember the LG G watch our that came out last year that was a round Android wear watch that was one of the more stylish ones out there this takes stuff another notch with the stainless steel body in gold or silver finish and a watch strap that's replaceable you can use any 22 millimeter watch strap this one's leather but the whole look takes it up a level to an urbane level or to any sort of stylish you know looks more like a regular watch this is a 1.3 inch OLED display 4 gigs of storage of Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor what it does is the same as the rest of Android wear this has a microphone to be able to use voice commands it's got a heart rate monitor for fitness and it runs similar apps as the rest of the watches out there the stainless steel body of the LG watch urbane is a lot like the one on the G watch are it's round and it's got a slightly thicker bezel it looks a little less thick on this model because of its design also the screen isn't as recessed so it makes swiping and touching it easier it certainly fits pretty well on my wrist if you like a SmartWatch that looks like a regular watch it looks like LG's aiming right for that territory and with things like the Apple watch coming out and a lot of regular watchmakers pushing for smart features it looks like the race is on to make something that you'd actually want to wear all the time so the LG watch urbane in silver or gold which do I prefer I'm more of a silver person look pretty nice though I feel like I need to dress better I'm Scott Stein here in Barcelona with LG's latest smartwatches for Android wear the LG watch urbane you
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