LG Unveils Watch W7 Hybrid Wear OS Smartwatch With Mechanical Hands
Oct. 4, 2018Alongside the flagshipV40 ThinQsmartphone, LG has also taken off its first-ever Wear OS-powered smartwatch, the Watch W7. The Watch W7 also sports mechanical hands, so in a way it’s also the first hybrid smartwatch from the Korean company.
Jumping into the specifications right away, the LG Watch W7sports a circular 1.2-inch LCD screenwith a display resolution of 360×360 pixels and pixel density of 300ppi. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 2100 chipset (not the latestSnapdragon 3100 SoC), coupled with 768MB of RAM and 4GB of onboard storage.
Though we know LG is capable of building good looking digital timepieces, the company has partnered with Switzerland’s Soprod SA to design and build the mechanical functions of the Watch W7. This enables high-precision quartz movement, along with the goodness of Wear OS, which hadrecently been revampedwith gestures and Google Assistant integration.
In addition, LG Watch W7 includes a 240mAh battery which the Korean giant claims will last up to two days on a single charge. That can beextended to 3-4 days in analog-only mode, as per the official press statement. You can, however, ramp up battery life over 100 days (or around three months) in the mechanical watch-only mode.
LG has announced that its hybrid Wear OS smartwatch has been priced at $450 (approx. Rs 33,200) in the United States. It is scheduled to go on sale from October 24, with pre-orders kicking off at the end of this week on October 7. There’s no mention of an India launch date just yet.
