LG has silently released its Watch Urbane Android Wear smartwatch for Rs. 23,990. The Watch Urbane is available via Amazon India. LG was one of the initial partners for Android Wear when it was launched in June last year. Since then, the company has been able to churn out two more smartwatches powered by Android Wear. Android Wear powered watches have always been more of a companion hardware for your phone. However, LG’s latest Watch Urbane is being marketed as a lifestyle product.
The LG Watch Urbane is very similar to the Gwatch R LG launched late last year. It uses the same 1.3-inch Plastic-OLED display with a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels. The watch features a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC. This has a quad-core CPU which is aided by 512MB of RAM. The watch also has 4GB of onboard storage and the operating system of choice is Android Wear, based on Lollipop. The watch is powered by a 410mAh battery and is IP67 certified. The watch can be tethered to Android phones running Android 4.3 or above. Check out our first impressions of LG Watch Urbane
The display as well as the entire watch is housed in a stainless steel casing which is available with a leather strap and in a gold colour option. There is a silver colour option as well and LG also makes a metal link chain for the watch but it isn't available right now. The watch weighs just 91 grams and uses a proprietary charging cradle. At the back, the watch also features a PPG sensor which can measure the wearer's heart rate.
The Moto 360 was the first smartwatch to introduce a luxury slice to the Android Wear market and other manufacturers, like LG, have been introducing wearables at a steady pace. You should expect that number to only grow in the coming months.