Samsung Galaxy Gear Off to Great Start
Some pretty astonishing figures from Samsung this morning. The company has managed to sell over 800,000 Galaxy Gear smartwatches in the two months since its debut. With Gear Samsung had managed to jump ahead of Google and the fabled Apple iWatch, and had brought the smartwatch to the mainstream market. Yes, the Pebble watch and Sony’s smartwatch have been around for a while, but neither of these products has actually been able to go mainstream. Samsung Gear has managed to do just that.
Still, it remains to be seen how much staying power do the wearable computers have in the long run, and even in the medium run. From my experience with Samsung Galaxy S3 I am not very impressed with Samsung’s build quality, user experience and the battery power. From the reviews of Galaxy Gear I think that my apprehension is well warranted. I am also not sure how useful smartwatch functionality is for the most part. I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money on a product whose advanced functionality I rarely end up using to begin with. For now at least I am adopting a wait-and-see attitude when it comes to the wearable consumer electronics in general.
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Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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