LG has officially launched the Watch Ubrane, it’s luxury Android Wear smartwatch in India, after it went on sale on Amazon yesterday. LG started rolling out the smarwatch in April. It has a 1.3-inch (320 x 320 pixels) P-OLED Display with narrower bezel, has a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 SoC, 512MB RAM and 4GB internal storage. It is dust and water resistant and can stay in water up to meter deep for 30 minutes, packs a 410mAh battery and also has photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor to measure heartbeats.
The Watch has LG Call and LG Pulse features. LG Call allows the wearer to access re-cent calls and the favorite contacts list on the connected smartphone to dial out directly from the watch. LG Pulse mesures heart rate every second during exercise, at the end of the activity, it will report the average heart rate over the entire duration of the activity and display a heart rate graph on LG Health, which is coming soon.
LG Watch Urbane specifications
- 1.3-inch P-OLED Display (320 x 320), 245ppi
- 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
- 512MB LPDDR2 RAM, 4GB eMMC
- Android Wear OS (compatible with smartphones running Android 4.3 and above)
- Size: 45.5 x 52.2 x 10.9mm
- Dust and Water Resistant (IP67)
- Sensors: 9-Axis (Gyro/ Accelerometer/ Compass), Barometer, PPG (Heart Rate Sensor)
- 410mAh battery
The LG Watch Urbane is priced at Rs. 30,000 in India, twice the amount of the launch price of its LG G Watch that was launched last year.
Commenting on the launch, Amit Gujral, Marketing Head, LG Mobiles India said,
With LG Watch Urbane, LG once again brought an amalgamation of a beautiful design and high end technology for its consumers. It’s best termed as a ‘Genuine Smartpiece’. It carries the latest android OS and includes features that are available for the very first time on any Android wear device. LG has been consistently launching smartwatches and this demonstrates our commitment towards wearable devices in India.
We went hands-on with the Watch Urbane at the MWC earlier this year, check out the video.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5hHlaDlmPg