Galaxy Gear is a smart watch launched at the same time as Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Compared with similar products, it rarely carries a 1.9 megapixel camera, and is based on the customized Android system. It can also achieve some interactive operations on applications with Note 3.

Unpacking

The packaging style of Galaxy Gear is the same as that of Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note3, etc. It uses wood grain paper boxes

The model of the Gear is V700. Only Super AMOLED and Bluetooth technology are mentioned on the back of the package

Open the top cover to see the true face of Gear

The dial is quite long, and there are screws in four corners

From this angle, I can see that there is a bulge on the watchband, which is the camera on the Gear

The Samsung logo is printed on the buckle of the watch strap, and the speaker is below the logo. This wire drawing metal is not very wear-resistant and easy to scratch

The state of fastener opening

A close-up of the camera on the watch strap. This is a 1.9 megapixel camera with an aperture of F2.8. Of course, it still feels abrupt when placed on the watch strap, and its position is easy to be scratched

Adjustable strap length

There are five metal contacts on the back of the gear, which can be connected to a special base, and there are four screws in four corners

There are switch keys and microphones on the right side of the fuselage

Gear comes with simple accessories, a special base, charger and related instructions. What's a bit puzzling here is that Samsung has integrated the charger and cable, which has reduced the cost to a certain extent, but it will be inconvenient for users to connect the Gear to the computer

The special base is also made of imitation leather on the front, which is still plastic in fact

MicroUSB interface on the back

Open it to see five metal contacts, and use it to connect with Gear

After the gear is buckled, the whole car is bigger

Diagram of wearing

Gear has a 1.63-inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 320 * 320 and a PPI of 277

UI and application

Although Gear is based on Android system, its interface is very different from traditional Android phones due to deep customization and limited screen resolution. Through the touch screen, we can perform some sliding and clicking operations on it. Since there are few keys on the body, we need to cooperate with some gesture operations when operating the Gear. For example, the downward stroke is to return, the downward stroke is to take a picture on the desktop, and the upward stroke is to dial

Some common operations on mobile phones can be realized on Gear, such as dialing, reading SMS, checking schedule, stopwatch, etc

Pedometer

Of course, we can also synchronously install some special applications through the paired mobile phones, such as Camera360, WeChat, Baidu Maps, etc

Among them, WeChat, Baidu Maps and other applications need to cooperate with the dedicated client on the mobile phone to work properly. Gear is more used as a "second screen", for example, WeChat can display new information sent by star marked contacts. Baidu Maps cannot be used temporarily because the mobile phone client installation is not successful

Camera360, for example, is an independent application that does not rely on mobile phones

In the viewfinder interface, because Gear uses touch focusing and shutter, it is not surprising that there is no focusing when taking a screenshot, and "paste" appears

hardware configuration

Samsung officials rarely mention the hardware configuration of the Galaxy Gear. Because the Gear has built-in USB debugging, we can push Android applications to mobile phones through computers, and view hardware information through software such as CPU-Z.

From CPU-Z, we can see that Gear uses the Exynos 4212 processor, which was once a high-end product. This processor is based on the dual core Cortex-A9, 32nm process, and Mali-400MP4. However, due to the power consumption problem, the maximum frequency of Gear is only 800MHz, but for a low resolution watch, this is enough

The total RAM is 420MB, and the ROM is 2.38GB. It can be inferred that the RAM chip of Gear is 512MB, and the ROM is 4G

Based on Android 4.2.2

Run a routine score. Because the processor frequency is low, the score is also ugly

At this stage, there are not many exclusive applications of Galaxy Gear, and we will also conduct a detailed evaluation of Gear, hoping that there will be more sexual applications at this time.