Gadgetory

there are two smart watches worth buying today the pebble and Google's new android wear platform but if you're looking for one which do you buy the pebble which has been around since the beginning of last year as an easy-to-read black light display and a fairly traditional digital watch design the steel version is the one you'd want it costs 250 bucks but it's all metal and comes with both the leather and the metal wristband the two Android wear watches today that two hundred dollars Samsung gear live and the two hundred and thirty dollar LG G watch our plasticky and geeky looking compared to the pebble and certainly don't look as nice as a classy dress watch both Android wear watches and full color displays that light up when you get notification or move your arm up to look at the time but they're not easy to see in a daylight and they suck down a lot of battery power you need to charge these things every day with your smartphone or you'll have a dead useless gadget on your wrist by the next day the pebble on the other hand can last about four to five days between charges Android wear and pebble can both show you all of your notifications on your wrists including email text messages and social alerts but this can get quite noisy especially we have an iPhone end a pebble since every notification that hits your phone is now going to come to your wrist there's other things that you can do to such as control music with your phone and count your steps with a pedometer one of the coolest things about the pebble is the ability to customize a watch faces on your wrist you do everything from a traditional analog design to text based displays to standard digital watch face you can also install different apps to extend the capabilities that watch over on Android wear the real promise here is the integration with Google now to show you relevant information when you need it are you at the airport and need to get your boarding pass out no worries your Android wear watches displaying it right on your wrist you can also control the thing with your voice to send messages perform Google searches and more android wear also supports apps the developers can make it work with their existing smartphone apps that do things like order pizzas call a cab or turn your smart lights on and off or more if you use an iPhone you really have no option except for the pebble but even if you use an android phone Android wear watches are tough sell at this point they're still too plasticky you have to be charged too often and are too clumsy to use to really be beneficial to most people if you must buy a SmartWatch today you're better off getting the table it looks nicer last longer and is easier to use than the Android wear watches but that doesn't mean you have to do anything right now chances are smart watches are going to get better really quickly they may very well be the next big personal gadget it's gonna take some time to figure them out before they're on everyone's rest