Gadgetory

hey this is Sam with the Virgin Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona and here we have the LG watch urbane LTE which is a completely new SmartWatch from LG it's based on webOS as opposed to the Android wear device that the company is really so far and here's how it works so you have the basic watch face here and if you push this button you get taken to a list of apps and in fact it makes use of the circular display in a way that Android wear it doesn't really kind of it's still a bit more natural to scroll through these things there's three buttons on the edge this one is a quick settings you can push it and you know adjust the brightness and so on and right here you have a back button to take you back out of the app that you've entered so what does this thing have well as there's a whole bunch of stuff there's this is a Korean video platform there's a kind of a voice assistant that you can you take your contacts the help tracking app go cycling app a golfer there's a whole bunch of stuff this is like this is very much a gadget there's a lot you can do on this one so the most important feature I guess is the built-in LTE connectivity this is the world's first belt II SmartWatch according to LG and what it means in practice is that this bullet actually can operate independently from a smartphone instead of constantly needing to be tethered from it so you can make phone calls on this there's like there's a full-on keypad you can talk to people walkie talkie styling groups you can check your email sort of when you're even when you're away from your smartphone so unlike Android wear which is like built around the idea of just pinging and notifications and so on from your phone to the second screen this is really kind of more of an independent device in its own right downside of that of course is that you'll need a second data plan for it you're probably paying a lot more per month if you have this running alongside a smartphone but we actually don't know a lot about the release plans for this thing it's only being confirmed for a Korean release with one carrier and it should be coming in the middle of months but no pricing details or anything of being announced yet so you'll just have to hold on and wait to see whether the thing will make it to the US but it's pretty cool if you're into the idea of a very hot core gadget focus Maxwell lurch this seems to be one of the best ones yet there's a lot you can do in it LT has clearly you know made an effort to actually make a new watch OS rather than sort of trying to ping things from the phone to do the watch but I don't know it's not the most intuitive thing to use and it's kind of bulky okay I don't think I could wear this under a shirt Bolin wearing a shirt inhabitant sleeves are rolled up but it's alright it's it's definitely gonna be a nice product but for what it is it is kind of cool so LG also has an on LTE version of the watch urbane this one is just called the LG watch urbane and it runs Android wear which means that it is pretty much the same as every other Android wear watch functionally you can you know it has all the pedometer functions and so on and it's you know very Google fade in interface it's a little more focused on what LG calls luxury experience then a other Android wear watch is it's made of stainless steel there are gold and silver finishes the strap is made of stitched leather it's a it's not as bulky at the LTE version it's a little you know fits a bit better on the wrist although it's still being a fairly big watch by what standard I mean it's it doesn't feel anywhere is nice like full-on luxury watch obviously but it's you know four reported is it does the job we don't know anything about availability or price but you know should be coming around the world LG filters and so that was the LG watch urbane and the watch urbane LTE