LG Watch Style Review: stylish and compact
OFweek Wearable Device Network News Yesterday, we have brought everyone the first evaluation of the LG Watch Sport, today, we will take everyone to learn about LG another smart watch equipped with Android Wear 2.0 LG Watch Style. Unlike LG Watch Sport, as its name suggests, Style pays more attention to appearance. This is one of the most fashionable Android Wear watches, but LG Watch Style does not support LTE, GPS and NFC.
Design
Unlike the LG Watch Urbane's immense shiny design, this watch still uses LG's usual round dial design and is one of the lightest and slimmer Android Wear smart watches, measuring just 10.79mm thick. This is mainly due to the elimination of extra sensors and the use of smaller batteries.
LG Watch Style uses a matt stainless steel case and a small table frame that is not as eye-catching as LG's previous products, but its design is more concise and elegant. Available in silver, titanium and rose gold colors.
The LG Watch Style strap is even more stylish. With 18mm strap, there are a variety of leather straps to choose from, wearing on hands, it is very elegant. Although the table frame is very slim, it is still equipped with a microphone, supports IP67 waterproof and dustproof, the shower is safe enough, it is not recommended to wear to swim.
screen
The LG Watch Style screen display is no different from other LG smart watches. With a 1.2-inch circular P-OLED display, the periphery is surrounded by a slim border. 360 x 360 resolution, although the size and resolution are less than the LG Watch Sport, but its compact screen is more exquisite, but also a good display. The only drawback is that it will leave large fingerprints. Although many smart watches will encounter similar problems, the patterns left by Style are too obvious.
Crown
LG follows Apple's steps and likes to use traditional watch designs. For example, the crown uses some elements of a traditional watch, which makes the production more complicated. The LG Watch Style crown is similar to the Apple Watch's digital crown rotation button for scrolling, accessing programs, and summoning Google Voice Assistant. Although not as intuitive and fluid as the Samsung Gear S3 smart watch, it is also the first step in LG and Android Wear's attempt to abandon sound and touch control and embrace traditional watch functionality.
Android Wear 2.0
The arrival of Android Wear 2.0 makes the smartwatch a completely independent device. Android Wear 2.0 is very suitable for the round screen of Style smart watches, and the crown is also a good complement to the navigation operating system. And the way to receive and process messages is more natural and convenient, you can choose and customize the watch interface.
LG Watch Style uses Apple-like Complications, which appear as small circles on the screen. Traditional watches have only one screen. If you want to display more extra information, you have to use Complications. You can add weather information or Google Fit's target progress, etc., to extend the existing functionality of the watch.
Android Wear 2.0 also has some embarrassment, and there are sometimes stalls and omissions in smart keyboard typing. When answering most of your questions, Google Voice Assistant will still guide you to the Wikipedia page and cannot provide natural two-way conversations.
Microphone speech recognition is not very good, although intelligent learning can well make up for the gap in efforts to provide a complete sentence. Although we are not completely disappointed with fitness hardware that does not have Sports, we still don't have NFC capabilities. This means that Style does not have Android Pay, and it is believed that LG regrets this decision.
During the use of LG Watch Style, it was found that the performance was very slow. Equipped with 1.1GHz Nine Dragon Wear 2100 chip, 512MB RAM, Android Wear smart watch standard specifications, open the APP and synchronize data is not very fast.
Apps
LG Watch Style uses very standard local apps such as Google Translate, contacts and reminders. Android Wear 2.0 also has some minor optimizations such as: Weather Channel, Lifesum, and Foursquare. There is also some new support, such as: The new Nest APP uses a rotary side button to control the temperature of the thermostat.
Of course, Android Wear 2.0 also brings a dedicated Google store that can download apps directly on your watch. And built-in Wi-Fi support, so you can browse more stores without a smartphone.
Life and charge
Although Android Wear 2.0 brings updates to LG Watch Style, it still faces some common problems with smart watches, one of which is battery life. Battery capacity is only 240mAh, generally only 2 days of battery life. In reality, if you use some features, only one day.
There are some ways to improve your life, such as turning off the Always ON display mode, lowering the brightness, turning off Wi-Fi, and more. But it always feels a bit self-defeating.
When the battery capacity is only about 15%, there will be a battery charging mode, then you have to turn off the display and Wi-Fi, from 0-100% takes about an hour and a half, so it is not a fast charging watch.
to sum up
LG Watch Style pays more attention to appearance, not feature. This is one of the most fashionable Android Wear watches, but its small and slim appearance is at the expense of functional features. We can understand without GPS and heart rate sensors, but without NFC it seems to be difficult to understand. If you want to experience the compact and slim Android Wear 2.0 smart watch, LG Watch Style is worth considering.
advantage
Compact and simple appearance, new crown rotation, good display
insufficient
Do not have Android NFC payment, life is not strong, slow performance
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