Samsung Galaxy Gear vs the Competition: Smartwatch Specs Compared

What began as a specialty showcase with more modest players now has one of the planet's grandest marks tossing its weight into the ring. Samsung's new Galaxy Gear will contend no holds barred with any semblance of Kickstarter-sweetheart Pebble, other startup smartwatches and Sony's continuation. Intended to be a friend to Galaxy Note 3 and freshest Galaxy Note 10.1 (and in addition other Samsung apparatuses that get redesigned to Android 4.3) the Gear gives you a chance to make calls from your wrist, tracks your fitness and even has an inherent Polaroid. Anyway how can this contraption stack up to whatever is left of the field?

The Galaxy Gear will accompany 70 good applications upon launch, and will be accessible in numerous color decisions. The watch combines to your Samsung apparatus through Bluetooth to convey warnings, empower telephone calls, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. It likewise accompanies its own Polaroid for snapping 1.9-MP photographs and recording 720p film without needing to whip out your smartphone

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In spite of the fact that the Galaxy Gear's launch has placed smartwatches in the spotlight starting late, Samsung is a long way from being the main maker to investigate wrist-worn tech. The Galaxy Gear will be met with solid rivalry from both created customer gadgets players and swarm financed startups, each one offering their own remarkable tackle the present day smartwatch.

A few wearables, for instance the Martian, take the extravagance watch approach while others, for example the Kreyos Meteor characteristic a more energetic, physically centered configuration. You'll likewise see an extensive variety of stickers. A high-close frivolity like the Martian or I'm Watch will require you almost $300, while a shortsighted e-ink wearable can succumb to the $110-$150 cost range.

While the sum of the watches said above portion the same fundamental practicality, their characteristics and use cases contrast. Case in point, fitness addicts might be overall encouraged to look at a waterproof smartwatch as the Pebble or the Meteor. Don't hope to reply to make telephone calls with the Pebble, though– for that you'll require the Gear, HOT Watch, IM Watch, Meteor or Martian.

These seven contraptions have set the stage for a prospering field in the tech business, and there's undoubtedly that we'll see more smartwatches as 2014 methodologies. While portions on some of these gadgets are still to a degree scanty, the table above should get you started.