New Delhi: Google has announced the launch of the first set of smartwatches based on its Android mobile software, Android Wear, at its annual developers conference - Google I/O 2014.
The LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live are the first Android wear smartwatches to go on sale and are available to order later Wednesday on Google Play Store. Motorola's Moto 360 will be available later this summer.
During a few demos at the conference, Google gave a glimpse of what all these new smartwatches are capable of doing.
LG G Watch will be compatible with a wide range of Android smartphones and will present relevant information to users just when they need it or whenever they say "OK Google" to ask questions or to get their work done.
This is LG's fourth device in close collaboration with Google following the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and the LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition.
LG G Watch has an always-on display. It shows an on-time notification, and raising the watch turns it from black and white to full colour. Users can swipe up and down to navigate between notifications, and swipe horizontally to get to details and actions. Users can select the watch face too. They can simply press and hold to choose which watch time face they want. Also, when a user dismisses a notification on the watch, is also disappears from the phone.
Setting a "do-not-disturb" mode is a swipe away. Just swipe down on the watch to set the DND mode.
The watch has a daily step counter and a step-count history for the week.
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