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almost all the major mobile manufacturers have their own Android wear smartwatches so standing out from the crowd isn't easy by equipping its SmartWatch 3 with built-in GPS Sony is hoping its first Android wear device will catch at least a few eyes now having built-in GPS allows the watch to track your route on a run without needing to be tethered to your phone actually the first Android wear SmartWatch to have GPS built in or the others require you to carry your phone with you while jogging which can be a little cumbersome you can store music on the watch too to play with a pair of Bluetooth connected headphones so you can actually head out to exercise using only the watch it's clearly then aimed at the fitness fanatics among you which may go some way to explain it it's plain rather design which does look far less stylish than round watchers particularly the LG G watch R it doesn't explain however why it doesn't feature a heartrate monitor as you'll find on most of its rivals now that seems like an odd omission for something geared towards fitness I just running Android wear the interface is identical to other smartwatches around you'll see cards popping up giving notifications about the weather steps you've taken and will display incoming calls and text from your phone as well the 1.6 inch display is sharp but it has very poor colors and bad viewing angles too which does make it much less pleasant to look at rather more vivid G watch are all the Samsung gear live the watch itself is waterproof you can swap out the strap and best of all it has the USB port built into it so you don't need to carry a separate charging cradle to charge it that's particularly handy as the battery isn't really up to much in general use you should expect to get about a day of use but you'll certainly want to charge it every night in general the SmartWatch 3 doesn't really impress due to its poor screen its uninspiring square design and its lack of the heart rate monitor still it is the only Android wear device with built-in GPS making it worth checking out if for some reason you desperately want to track your running distance but cannot bear to carry your phone with you I'm Andrew Hoyle for CNET and this is a Sony SmartWatch 3 you