{"id":2545,"date":"2013-09-04T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:17:21","slug":"samsung-galaxy-gear-smart-watch-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/samsung-galaxy-gear-smart-watch-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Gear Smart Watch Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comic book character Dick Tracy was already sporting this gimmick back in the day, but now consumers will have the ability to play it cool, too, with Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Gear, a smart watch.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/09\/04\/galaxy-gear-hands-on\/<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2013\/09\/galaxygearlead.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m digging it, the way it looks. But it still seems a little clunky because of all the internal wiring.<\/p>\n<p>I like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Size<\/li>\n<li>OLED flexible touch screen<\/li>\n<li>Color<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Size; Still too big<\/li>\n<li>Non-customizable; Can&#8217;t take it apart; wrist-strap houses camera<\/li>\n<li>Short battery life (a day); If I want it to run like a wrist watch, I need reliable years worth of battery life; everything else is just added bells and whistles (or I just need a wrist watch)<\/li>\n<li>Only compatible with Galaxy Note, so don&#8217;t expect to be able to use with Windows or Macs or any other types of PCs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s coming out later this year for USD$299 and that seems quite reasonable for this gimmicky small device. BUT, you can&#8217;t use it across PCs other than Galaxy Notes, so I imagine this thing becoming a useless toy and collecting dust. Again, another very nice idea, but worthless in the long run. Users are more practical than manufacturers want to think. They only buy into new styles, but ultimately still use their devices to do daily tasks. If the fallback of Galaxy Gear is a wristwatch, and I have to recharge this thing every night, then it&#8217;s not much worth my time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.cpxcenter.com\/cpxcenter\/s_click.php?nid=4&amp;pid=31141&amp;sid=32103&amp;cid=9697&amp;cuid=jr9ytra&amp;adtype=2&amp;ad=128309&amp;subid=&amp;opt1=&amp;opt2=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.cpxcenter.com\/cpxcenter\/cr_image.php?nid=4&amp;pid=31141&amp;sid=32103&amp;cid=9697&amp;cuid=jr9ytra&amp;ad=128309&amp;adtype=2&amp;subid=&amp;opt1=&amp;opt2=\" border=\"0\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic book character Dick Tracy was already sporting this gimmick back in the day, but now consumers will have the ability to play it cool, too, with Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Gear, a smart watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[734,1052,1064,1810,1971,2234,2369],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-dick-tracy","tag-galaxy","tag-gear","tag-oled","tag-portable","tag-samsung","tag-smart-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}