Brief introduction
Recollect the James
Bond 007 movies of 1950 where the popular detective takes pictures and talks to
the control room through his wrist watch. Perhaps, Ian Fleming had predicted
the modern Smartwatch when he penned the famous James Bond 007 series fictions.
As a matter of fact, the credit for Smartwatch goes to Hamilton Watch Company
which had introduced a version of this watch using the ‘pulsar device’
mechanism.
It is a computer on your
wrist
Smart watch can be
called as a computerized form of a wrist watch. Initially, the watch was devised
to perform functions like time keeping, calculator and for playing games.
However, the scope of this watch was widened by Sony which brought out this
watch using the Android platform. But, the concept and the utility of
smartwatch got extended with the introduction of Galaxy Gear by Samsung. Now,
this watch performs numerous functions and it can be used as a mobile phone, a
camera, a device to record audio and video and several other functions. In
fact, the latest version of this phone can even be used for GPS navigation and
for other utilities like that of a thermometer, Chronograph, Graphical display,
USB interface and such other numerous functions. This version introduced by
Samsung also has Bluetooth utility. This watch introduced by Samsung is also
based on the Android platform. The watches are water resistant and they work
with rechargeable Lithium batteries.
Scope for wider
application
However, for the
present, the smartwatch introduced by Samsung can be connected to the Galaxy
Tab and to Galaxy note. It is expected that in the coming days, these watches
could also have Operating Devices like the Windows 8 and IOS. Now, in addition
to Samsung several other manufacturers like the Apple, Qualcomm and even
Microsoft are likely to introduce several other versions of such watches into
the market.
Reasonable price
The price of these watches
varies between $200 to $300 depending on the utilities available in the watch.
These watches also carry with it the manufacturer’s warranty. As some people
say, in the course of time, the smart watches may replace the mobile phone.
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