Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy Gear smart watch yesterday. The new Samsung watch has many features including a touchscreen, 1.9-mega-pixel camera, speaker and two microphones. We’ve seen a lot of different watches this year with Bluetooth® technology and smart watches are quickly becoming one of the hottest trends in the industry.
One interesting thing is it isn’t a standalone phone but a companion device that connects to your Samsung phone courtesy of Bluetooth Smart technology. According to the press release, “it lets users live in the moment while staying connected to their Samsung GALAXY devices.” It currently only works with the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition but support for the Galaxy S4 and others is coming later this year. Samsung also lined up some cool apps for the watch including MyFitnessPal, TripIt, and Vivino Wine Scanner.
We’ve seen some interesting wearable technology this year and IMS predicts the wearables market will grow to over $6 billion by 2016. When you combine a developer’s imagination with Bluetooth Smart, the future of wearables is virtually unlimited.
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