Galaxy Gear - Innovation???

This is my second Blog Post in a row!!!!! consistency BABY!!!! well lets not get ahead of myself...

Well.. Lets get down to business here.. lets talk about the "new" "Innovation" with the Galaxy Smartwatch also known as the Samsung Galaxy Gear. 

Now for those who are not techies out there but want to know the points about it... lets start with the gadgets. The watch comes with a display under 2 inches that is a touch display with a 1.9 Megapixle camera included (which by today standards is like the first phone camera ever installed in the old school sprint phones, however this may be better), Dictation, text alerts, notifications, photos sync via blue tooth and phone capabilities with a speaker giving you the option for a speaker phone or something to listen to music. Now the galaxy gear comes with a handful of apps to track your activity for the day. 

I assume the twitter updates and the facebook and instagram will surely follow with the other handfull of apps that will be availible. However, the galaxy gear is only availible to function with Andriod 4.3 and above, so if you do not have the lastest smart phone, there is already an alternative... Use a sony or pebble smart watch as they are less expensive than the $299 price tag it will drop at later this month. 

Now with only watching demos, videos and comparing it with others availible today, I remember Apple having a ipod nano previously in an earlier generation that had the same face and nearly the same offline functionality. I think if apple pursuit this a long time ago the smart watch could have been invented then... However Apple went in a new direction and change the design of the ipod nano. That ipod nano had a watch wristband that was an accessory to it and made it a "smart watch" back then i saw the potential and I thought that was Innovation in what could have been...

The question you ask your self should be this... is this what I need and do I want this? Lets start by saying this, the wearable tech revolution has begun with the Google Glass and everyone is trying to jump on any boat just so they dont miss the whole tablet thing Apple capitalized on what seems soo long ago. The Galaxy Gear is supposed to accompany the Note3 so the user does not alway check there phones, giving them "freedom" or "freedom from habit of doing it all the time". Waerable tech is supposed to get your phone out of the way, so instead of the phone being the center of your life, you can now discover a whole new world outside of facebook and social networking and emails and messages. The wearable tech puts you out of the digital ecosystem somewhat but the way life is right now, you can never really escape it.

My opinion and recommendation is this, this is a cool gadget and better than what is currently out there now, however i dont see this holding value because I dont see this as a growing product, there may be app functionality later with this but my guess is that samsung wanted to beat Apple to the punch and strike first, with Apple having there conference a week later. To get full functionality you have to have a top of the line andriod phone and preferably a Note3. With that phone being seen as "TOO BIG TO FUNCTION" this is not going to go well with people. I suspect to wait and let see the next models of watches that will be compatible with the Galaxy S5 when it is release or if cyanogenmod gets a hold and hacks this and a bunch of custom ROMs are developed. However, I would wait till Apple unviels their version, unless it is the same device as I mentioned earlier with phone capabilities on it, wait until the next more compatible version is released. 

Thanks for reading!!!