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fanatical fashion followers finally have a SmartWatch so they won't be ashamed to wrap around their wrists it's called the LG G watch R and it's the most visually striking of all the android-based smartphone is absolutely the reason to be excited about this watch unlike almost all other smartwatches this one actually managed to look like a regular watch and an attractive one at that the body is round rather than square it's made from black metal there are numbers and notches around the race rim to help tell the time and it uses a real leather strap I think it's the best-looking SmartWatch we've seen although it's chunky angular appearance won't be to everyone's taste there are various watch faces to choose from and these really helped make this watch look great many of the faces mimic classic analog watches we've slender silver hands ticking around dark background some of the faces are so realistic in fact that you need to get quite close up to tell that it isn't a real watch some faces also give extra information to Fitness one for example it shows a tally of your steps rather day while the hiking shows a compass and your elevation the crown on the sides acts as the home button there's a heart rate monitor on the back and it's waterproof to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes selects designer size this watch is functionally identical to every other Android wear SmartWatch as the software remains completely unchanged when connected to your Android phone the watch will display card show notifications or other information which can be dismissed with a swipe you can perform searches or reply to emails using voice commands and it's here the watch rather falls down although asking will I need a jacket tomorrow quickly brought at the weather forecast dictating email replies frequently went wrong although the LG G watch art is the most beautiful SmartWatch we've so far seen it's basically just a prettier wrapper for the same disappointing software Android wear can perform a few neat tricks but it doesn't yet provide anything that's essential or even particularly exciting and even the things it can do don't work as well as they should if you're a dedicated Android fanatic and are itching to put a SmartWatch on your arm and G watch R is the best of the current crop to go for if you're after the device that will usher in a new area of communication you're still in for a bit of a wait I'm Andrew Hoyle for C net and this is the LG G watch you