Leave your phone at home walk with Samsung gear smartwatch

smartwatch was produced by Samsung ElectronicSas in the gear smartwatch family of devices. It was unveiled during a Samsung Unpacked event in Germany on September 4, 2013. The watch serves as a companion for all Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets which run Android OS. The watch was released on September 25, 2013. Originally it was released as an Android-based device but sooner Samsung replaced the operating system with Tizen in May 2014 software update.

Let’s eye on the hardware and software part of Samsung gear smartwatch-

Hardware

The Galaxy Gear is powered by an 800 MHz Exynos system-on-chip processor. The watch comes with a 320 pixel-wide square-shaped Super AMOLED touch screen display with a pixel density of 277 ppi. It has 1.9 megapixel camera with a Back-illuminated sensor, auto-focus, and 720p video recording, with a speaker and two noise-cancelling microphones.

Samsung has offered 4 GB of internal memory, 512 MB of RAM, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope in the watch. The device contains a 315 mAh battery. You will find that the device itself does not contain a charging port rather be placed inside a special Micro USB-equipped charging case.

Software

Samsung gear smartwatch uses Android-based operating system with a mini interface and gesture-based navigation. If you want to pair the watch with your Smartphone or tablet then you first need to install the Gear Manager app. You will find a NFC tag located inside the charging case to download the app. It can also be used manage and install apps via Samsung Apps.

Notifications

Notifications can be synced from the host device and displayed on the Gear's screen when received. A preview of a notification's content is displayed on the watch itself, while the Smart Relay feature allows you to open content displayed on Gear on their Smartphone or tablet.

Phone calls can also be answered and placed from the Samsung gear smartwatch, while the "Find My Device" tool can be used to locate the watch with a phone or tablet.

Storage-

Photos and videos can be stored to the device's internal storage, or immediately transferred to the user's phone or tablet.

The update replaces the Android-based operating system of the device with the Tizen-based operating system of its successor, the Samsung gear smartwatch 2. Overall the watch is the next big way to live life connected.

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