{"id":1145,"date":"2013-09-05T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:59:48","slug":"samsungs-galaxy-gear-is-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/samsungs-galaxy-gear-is-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Gear is official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vlad Savov for The Verge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, it&#8217;s a smartphone accessory that can pick up notifications, control music playback, and keep time with a rich variety of watch faces, but Samsung takes it a few steps further by integrating a 1.9-megapixel camera, a speaker, and two microphones \u2014 allowing you to shoot short 720p movies and even conduct phone calls with the Galaxy Gear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thankfully it&#8217;s not the 3-inch watch face we saw leaked earlier this week, but it still looks like a very bulky device to wear on your wrist.<\/li>\n<li>It packs a 315mAh battery which will only be good for around 1 day of battery. That&#8217;s just not good enough for a watch.<\/li>\n<li>It has 70 apps, which is a surprisingly decent selection for a launch device. I chuckled when I saw Evernote in that list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will be priced at internationally at\u00a0US$299, and launches globally in late September. We&#8217;ve heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2013\/09\/samsung-galaxy-gear-australian-hands-on-the-maxwell-smart-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telstra will be ranging it here it Australia<\/a>, but no word on local\u00a0price just\u00a0yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vlad Savov for The Verge: Yes, it&#8217;s a smartphone accessory that can pick up notifications, control music playback,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[391,390,70,401,402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}