Samsung is ahead of Apple. At the IFA in Berlin and on a screen in Times Square in New York has seen first smart watch Korean brand, the Galaxy Gear, ahead of that expected this in the coming weeks Apple.
Gear Galaxy put on sale worldwide on September 25 at a price that, for now, Samsung has not specified in Spain although it seems to be around 250 euros. Although the president of the products division, JK Shin, did not disclose the technical characteristics of these watches, yes you guessed it only synced phones of the same brand, which will lose much of its appeal.
Shin was presented with a watch strap orange and sphere grid, where the received message notifications. Subsequently, the research director, Pranav Mistry showed that the watch will be sold in six colors, which allow immediate connection to mobile. For example if a signal arrives at the clock email, simply remove the phone from his pocket to see on that screen is bigger.
Thanks to bluetooh simply place your hand on your ear for a phone call or make a call. They also have voice commands thanks to the speaker installed in the watch strap. The watch features a camera capable of producing small videos with just swipe your finger across the screen of 1.6 inches. Gear is compatible with all Galaxy devices and has an own application store. The battery lasts 25 hours and includes other features like the accelerometer or pedometer.
By now there are four manufacturers of smart watches, regardless of the dedicated solely to sports functions such as classic Polar. Sony was the pioneer brand with its SmartWatch, which just launched its second geneeración for 199 euros, the Italian'm watch costs between 350 and a thousand euros and Pebble $ 150 (about 120 euros). In all cases, the operating system is Android, but so far, no clock rates for the Samsung.
With these launches, expected more from Apple, is expected later this year has more than a million of these devices operating in Europe.
Samsung's show in New York and Berlin next week Apple will mount in Cupertino, Berlin and Beijing-was used to introduce two products: the Galaxy Note phone-tablet in its third generation. It is lighter, faster, thinner than the previous, announced Shin. The screen goes from 5.5 to 5.7 in. and increases the range of colors with pink, as they have seen much of the public that this product is female. The Note comes with a stylus 3 more sensitive and higher functions, surrounded with apps like Evernote and My Magazine, the Korean version of Flipboard. Your camera is capable of 60 frames in high resolution and, of course, is 4G.
The Note opened a new mobile market more than five inches and, thanks to its success, all manufacturers have followed the path, and mobile and over six inch screen. Such is the success of the Note is now complete with a 10-inch model of 535 grams, which the South Korean firm tries to have a mobile device for every consumer, regardless of their need. This act seems that Samsung wants to preempt Apple, if only for a week. Next Tuesday Apple will speak.
