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hi I'm Scott Stein and Google has launched a whole bunch of watches running Android wear what does this mean and what do these watches do well this is the Samsung gear live which is an Android wear SmartWatch which runs on Android phones across the board running 4.3 or higher for your Android operating system and you may want to check compatibility because you've got to have Bluetooth 4.0 now how is this different from the other Android wear watches the gear live feels a lot like the other gears in design but it has a few extra tweaks going on here and a few extra features this is a heartrate monitor like the other recent years that's something that no other Android wear watch has right now you've got a three 320 by 320 supreme OLED display so it's a higher quality screen than on the LG G watch cost $1.99 for this weirdly less expensive than LG's watch better screen and a heart rate monitor plus the rest of it is pretty much the same four gigs of storage onboard 512 megabytes of RAM for what it's worth and it has the same ability to run apps and feels about as lightweight the design here is kind of like a hybrid of a gear fit and a gear there's a metal band around here middle middle face that's steel curves no button on the front part and no camera there's a button on the side and that acts as kind of a turn on turn off button and the pegs here the way it attaches are a bit more like a Fitbit force not a standard watch band so if you don't like the idea that's popping up be forewarned you can also swap out this watch band with others feels comfortable on my wrist and Android wear what it does basically you're gonna be talking to it and tapping and swiping to get notifications at the moment it runs a lot like Google now on your wrist so if you're walking around and you're at a place you've been before it might pop up a reminder that you've been there or in the morning weather will pop up or it'll send Twitter notifications you start to get overwhelmed with notifications and you can turn them on and off on an Android wear app that runs on your phone you can load it here and you can manage those notifications and you're gonna want to plus there are other apps those are going to install on the phone and then they're gonna load onto this automatically those aren't available yet really so what we're looking at that's here kind of basic Google services and a lot of its voice based to get most things done you're gonna want to have to double tap and then talk to it and it's a different idea because it's not really like bringing up apps it's more like it's trying to learn and pick up your habits there are also elements of fitness you got the pedometer built into here and you also have things like a stopwatch and the heart rate monitor what you get in the box is this and then you also get a little plug in charge cradle microUSB snaps on and a little charge plug and that's the whole story do you get one of these now well keep in mind the Moto 360 is going to be coming out this summer that's a whole different design and they're gonna be other Android wear watches which one do you get right out of the bag I wouldn't go with one of these right away wait and see what comes and wait and see what Android wear becomes we don't even know yet because these are just the very first few days of the software intriguing but evolutionary the Samsung gear live is available now and it's going to be arriving by around July 8th so stay tuned for more I'm Scott Stein at CNET with the Samsung gear live