Apple's Sept. 9 press conference was mainly to unveil the iPhone 6
but some details about the previously dubbed "iWatch" now called the
Apple Watch were also revealed. It seems the unveiling of the watch came
just in time before Motorola is to release their Moto 360.
Still,
even with the impending release of the Moto 360, Apple still has to
face their rival Samsung in the release of smartwatches, which Samsung
has been doing long before Apple released the Apple Watch. The latest
offering the South Korean company, the Gear 2 is currently Apple's most
recent competition in the smartwatch market.
Both watches share a
square-face design with a few differences on the side. With the Apple
Watch, it has a single knob and button on the side. The Gear 2 on the
other hand has a home button at the bottom part of the watch and a
2-megapixel camera to the top of the watch.
A slew of features
were unveiled during the Sept. 9 press conference. Basically, the Apple
Watch works as a wrist-hub connected to a user's iPhone and works to
display any incoming notifications, messages, and Siri eliminating the
need for users to take their phones out everytime a new notification is
received.
The Apple Watch runs on a custom S1 SiP (System in
Package) chip and is equipped with a GPS, an accelerometer, a heart-rate
sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and is protected with a sapphire glass cover.
The
Gear 2 on the other hand features a 1.0 GHz dual-core Exynos 3250
system-on-chip, 512MB RAM, and 4GB of internal memory. The Samsung
smartwatch shares similar features with the Apple Watch but can also
operate on its own as a stand-alone device.
As for compatibility,
the Apple Watch is only compatible with the iPhone. The same goes with
the Gear 2, only offering compatibility with Samsung devices like the
Galaxy S smartphone series and the Galaxy Note phablet series.

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