The document compares the Apple Watch and LG G Watch R smartwatches. It discusses that the Apple Watch will popularize smartwatches and create a market for cheaper alternatives like the LG G Watch R. While the LG G Watch R runs Android Wear, the Apple Watch runs Apple's iOS-based software, but both allow apps, calls, texts, notifications and more. The Apple Watch is aimed at style-conscious users, while the LG G Watch R has a round screen like a traditional watch.

1. APPLE WATCH VS. LG G R
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Produced By: Haya Al Jord
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2. WHAT IS A SMART WATCH?
• Smartphones are brilliant, portable computing and
communications devices. But they have taken us
back to the era of the pocket watch. We have to take
a device out of your pocket to get at all that great
information. The reason the dumb watch has
remained a constant for decades is that it is almost a
perfect form factor. Convenient and only as obtrusive
as you wish it to be. Getting the information from
your smartphone on to your wrist is highly useful.

3. WHY THE APPLE WATCH MATTERS ?
• Apple Watch launch is truly significant. Apple
rarely, if ever, truly innovates. What it does
amazingly is take existing technology and
create the first truly great consumer products in
that space. It has done so several times: OS X,
iPod, iPhone, iPad - none of these were the first
in their respective classes, but all of them set
the gold standard and gave life to markets.
• So to an extent it doesn't matter how good, bad
or indifferent is the Apple Watch. The very fact
that Apple is making one will generate sales,
which will in turn lead to smartwatches and
wearables in general looking normal and
desirable. This is good news for the likes of LG
with the LG G Watch R.

4. SMARTWATCH SOFTWARE
• Software makers are now creating apps for
smartwatches - they know there will be an
after market. In turn this also generates more
of a market, almost regardless of consumer
desire. Apple is not pitching at techie people,
and its watch won't be cheap. It is aimed at
people with disposable income who are style-
and fashion conscious and who like to be
seen to have the latest kit. There are plenty of
them and they will snap up the Apple Watch,
which will in turn create a market for cheaper
alternative smartwatches.

5. APPLE WATCH VS LG G WATCH R COMPARISON:
COMPATIBILITY
• Android users will be able to use the LG G
Watch R or the Motorola Moto 360, or any
other Android Wear-powered smartwatch,
while iPhone users will have a choice of the
Apple Watch or the Apple Watch.
• You can use the G Watch R with any Android
device (normally a smartphone) running
Android 4.3 Jelly or later. Meanwhile the Apple
Watch works only with the iPhone (including
the 5, 5c, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus). Neither smartwatch
works independently of a smartphone.

6. APPLE WATCH HARDWARE
• As always with Apple, it cares more
about what a product does and how
it looks and behaves than what is
inside; it hasn't announced the exact
tech specs of its Apple Watch. For
once we agree: while we want the
battery to last at very least a full day.

7. LG G WATCH R
• the Android Wear smartwatches with a few
little differences here and there. The core
hardware is a familiar Qualcomm
Snapdragon 400 1.2 GHz processor, 512MB of
RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
• A battery size of 410 mAh is pretty typical
and there's the usual array of sensors
including a gyro, compass, accelerometer.

8. APPLE WATCH DESIGN
• The Apple Watch comes in two sizes, for men and women, and in three
collections. The Apple Watch collection has a polished silver or black case
made from a custom alloy of stainless steel; the Apple Watch Sport collection
has a 60 percent stronger anodized aluminum case in silver or space grey, with
strengthened Ion-X glass; and the Apple Watch Edition collection uses 18-carat
yellow- or rose gold, and features exquisitely crafted straps and closures. Then
there are six strap options: Link Bracelet, Sport Band, Leather Loop, Classic
Buckle, Modern Buckle and Milanese Loop.

9. LG G WATCH R DESIGN
• the G Watch R has a round screen rather than square - again, like the Moto 360. It
looks more like a traditional wristwatch than the square-faced Apple Watch. Indeed,
this is probably the main reason to opt for the LG G Watch R over the regular version
or other square screen smartwatches.
• The G Watch R looks great and will come with a stainless steel frame and a leather
strap although the standard 22mm size means you can chop and change. The G
Watch R is IP67 rated so is dust- and waterproof – up to 1m of water for 30 minutes.
• LG says the G Watch R will come in black but we also took a look at a silver model.
The device is relatively thick but no bigger than a lot of analogue watches on the
market.

10. APPLE WATCH VS LG G WATCH R COMPARISON:
FEATURES
• While the LG G Watch R runs Android Wear, and the Apple Watch runs
Apple's own iOS-based software. On either watch you can install apps, make
calls and send texts, call up the voice assistant, check your email, control-,
store- and play back music, display photos, view notifications from social
media and more.
• The Apple Watch has a few extras, including Glances (swipe up from the
bottom of the screen to see at-a-glance information on whatever you choose to
have there), and Digital Touch. The latter lets you connect with your friends
with a single touch