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hey what is up guys I'm kid Bhd here and I am in San Francisco California of course for Google i/o 2014 and here I've got my hands on the LG G watch so there were 3 smartwatches shown off for the first Android wear smartwatches at Google i/o there was the Moto 360 the circular one that everyone's talking about then there was a Samsung one called the Samsung gear live and then there's the LG one which is called the LG G watch the G watch is retailing for $229 in the Google Play Store starting today and from my hands on in my impressions of it it's actually not all that different from the Moto 360 aside from the shape which I'll talk about in a second so it's a 280 by 280 resolution it comes in black or white it's the stainless steel in terms of size obviously I don't have the biggest risk in the world but it's kind of similar in size to a pebble steel I'd say a little bit bigger it obviously has bezel on the top on the bottom but it's a square form factor and it looks really similar to a pebble so with a SmartWatch something a lot of people are gonna wonder about is the battery life and the standby time and what LG told us is the standby time is gonna be somewhere around 36 hours with that 400 million power battery and for the size you're getting it at it's always on and that LCD screen is pretty bright looking you're gonna get that always on for 36 hours so it doesn't seem all that bad of course raising it up with your wrist we'll get that screen to activate so it gets a lot brighter and it'll show you you notifications and basically when we were using this watch it's in a retail lonely mode so you're not gonna get to actually use the voice commands or the things that'll do when it's connected to your smart phone you can think of this as Google now and your Android notification center on your wrist that's basically all it does so it will give you all your Google now notifications how many steps you've taken the weather and then your Notification Center so if you have music playing you can play pause that kind of stuff if you have some other album art there are some other ongoing notifications all that kind of stuff can be controlled through some swipes in the gestures so from what we got to play with it it was pretty smooth nothing really hung up it seemed like retail mode is working just fine but if you're gonna check out a watch like this you're gonna check out the functionality and how it connects to your phone so that's what we saw so it's a little bit unclear at this point whether the watch is using all of your phone sensors or if it has a bunch of sensors of its own it has no physical buttons but what have as a nine axis gyroscope accelerometer basically to be able to tell when you raise it and that's when it'll brighten itself and you'll be able to see all your notifications and the UI but other than that they made it sound like the pedometer and all the other sensors will come from the sensors in your phone which is getting away at Bluetooth so really coming in at 229 this is less than a pebble steel it has a lot more functionality if I was pebble right now I'd be very concerned about this kind of stuff and Android wear is getting a lot more in a spotlight with watches like this the LGG watch and of course the Moto 360 which I do want to get hands-on time with but there you go guys that's your hands-on with the LG G watch here in San Francisco at Google i/o 2014 thank you for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace