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as a surprising number of you have noticed I've been wearing a new

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smartwatch for the last month or so without reviewing it sorry it's taken so

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long but sometimes it does take a while to get to a particular device CU it's

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really inconvenient to stop using it long enough for Brandon to get a chance

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to shoot some b-roll I've actually had a couple of things like that recently

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including the obutto gaming cockpit which is coming soon and this guy right

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here welcome to my review of the LG gatch are my favorite Smartwatch so

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far experience silent performance with the new Cooler Master silencio 652 s

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minimalist design maximum compatibility click now to learn more so after

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reviewing the Moto 360 I resolved to let

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Android Wear mature a little until sometime after the Apple watch launch so

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I could compare its progress to Apple's mation but after seeing how disappointed

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I was with the Moto 360's poor battery life with the screen in ambient usually

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on mode with no option for Always on at all and the general bugginess of Android

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Weare 4.4 one of my colleagues edzel instead of getting scared off of Android

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Weare ran out and bought an LG Gat R which he declared to be awesome and said

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that I should get one too so I did and it turns out he was right but don't tell

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him that the hardware specs are better than the 360 mostly I mean like anything

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it's a trade-off but it's a trade-off that I happen to like better the gatr

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features a much newer more efficient and significantly faster processor a 30%

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larger 410 milliamp battery a power

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sipping ped display that some folks are

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concerned about burning with but careful selection of watch faces and the short

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realistic lifespan of a piece of tech like this thanks to software updates and

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limited battery charge cycles makes that a bit of a nonissue for me but some

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drawbacks to LG's apprach do show up when we look at the construction the

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Moto 360 features a larger display with gorilla glass protecting it and a

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reasonably nice leather strap included in the Box while LG relies on the Gat

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R's thick bezel to protect its smaller

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plastic face and includes one of the worst leather watch straps I've ever

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encountered in my life although the fact that it can be easily changed out for

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any standard 22mm strap like this Kevlar fabric one that edzel picked up for his

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without any special tools makes it less

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of an issue because that's a great way to enhance the comfort and style of the

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watch to appeal to folks who like velcro bands metal bands or anything in between

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and maybe that's the biggest reason that I like the gatr better LG didn't blow me

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away with their like Space Age industrial design and great you know

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durable material choices but the watch

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just plain suits me better and at the end of the day it's a watch and I have

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to wear it the build quality is solid enough I didn't get any chips or

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anything on it in the last month or so and the round sporty look appeals to my

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practical side which I suspect will be the case for a lot of LG's target

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audience for this thing since the folks who are into Super high-end formal dress

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watches were unlikely to buy something that doesn't have mechanical movement

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anyway but if you're going to appeal to practical people then you better provide

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some practical functionality right the gatr has a heart rate monitor visible on

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the bottom of the unit that I didn't use at all because as long as the old girl's

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still ticking in there I'm not too fussed about how fast but it also has

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some stuff that does matter to me including an IP67 Ingress Protection

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rating which you can learn more about here but in short means that you can't

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go scuba diving with it but that would be stupid anyway because capacitive

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touch screens don't work underwater and it only has one physical button on the

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right side but in you know your normal

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life for normal people it'll keep water and dust out of the casing for as long

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as I think a half an hour under a meter of water it's also got a gyro

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accelerometer and compass for step tracking and motion control with only a

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GPS sensor really missing for folks who want to go running or whatever and not

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bring their tethered phone with them now normally I would cover the software of

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the device at this point in the review but Android Weare is I mean it's the

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same on every device that runs it and it just doesn't really do that much I mean

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you can put apps on it you can put

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custom watch faces on it both of which I demo in the Moto 360 review which you

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can watch here but if you're buying this device so you can use a wrists sized

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internet browser instead of a pocket sized one then you're definitely missing

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the point Android Weare devices are for lightning fast notifications of

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reminders upcoming events and messages quick handsfree memo creation and

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replies to emails and text and Hangout messages turn BYT navigation for folks

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who don't have a car dock for their phone telling the time onscreen music

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control and for me very importantly letting you know when you leave your

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phone behind somewhere because it loses the connection and that aside from some

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frustrations like poor support from third party applications like Twitter

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which in some cases won't even let you read a notification properly much less

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open it on the phone or heaven forbid interact with it through the watch and

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Google Now's laughable predictions for cards that I'd like to see and finally

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the weak media controls that bury you

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know your music Control under other cards and totally needs to be revamped

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is what the gwat are does so it's getting a glowing review from me but

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lonus the Moto 360 does that stuff too and you were pretty harsh on it how much

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is LG paying you great question nothing by the way but I actually noticed the

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difference in tone for this review too when I was rewatching my Moto 360 video

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and reading this one to to prep for this and I was pretty down on that device for

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some stuff that in retrospect seems pretty minor doesn't it for some reason

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I accept 1 and 1/2 days of battery now actually once I got two to which was

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nice I accept the proprietary charger dock that doesn't even have a handy

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dandy bedside mode and isn't even a cool Wireless one this time and I accept the

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general quirkiness of Android Wear so it

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took me a while to nail this down but at the end of the day I think the reason

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the gatr gives me so many warm fuzzies and will remain on my wrist now that I'm

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done with this review is that I can use it as much as I want have my screen

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always on so I can always see the time even without a goofy gesture and still

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get that one and a half days of battery that I need that's where the Moto 360

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failed me and that's where the Apple watch has already failed me if the

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rumored internal battery life targets are anywhere close to True a watch needs

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to be a functional watch first before it can get my attention for all the other

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little tricks it does which is why I tolerated Pebbles you know truncated

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email notifications so willingly up

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until now because it was a watch first and it did all that other stuff well now

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Android Wear has a watch that it runs onto one that still needs Google to get

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their crap together on a few things uh replying to email for example on the

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watch leaves it unread in my inbox for some reason but it's still the best

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wearable experience I've had so far and I hardly recommend it assuming you've

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got as much uh as you'd spend on a decent smartphone to spend on a watch so

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that's pretty much it guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if your

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