You may have seen the leaked photo we posted earlier today of the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch which is to be unveiled at IFA later this week, and suffice to say, the reactions to the smartwatch‘s appearance haven’t been all that positive (that’s the device above if you were wondering). GigaOM, however, is reporting that some Samsung sources are saying that the watch in the leaked photos is in fact a prototype that was made available to developers, and that a ‘different, more finished’ will be shown off at IFA 2013.
Specifically speaking, the source says that while the prototype in the leaked photo has a screen measuring 3-inches diagonally, the final watch will have a screen of 2.5-inches and will be running the latest version of Android, Android 4.3, with key features like keyboard and internet browser disabled. Furthermore, the 10-hour battery life we reported earlier is actually the battery life during active use, and that the watch should last 24 hours with moderate use.
These new details do put our collective minds at a bit more ease, but we can’t help but feel that the Galaxy Gear will never live up to our expectations unless it turns up looking like the flexible LCD drool-inducing device that we were all hoping to see. Let’s hope for the best, but we’ll probably be seeing something like the Sony SmartWatch 2 but a little bigger with slightly better features.
What are your thoughts about this news? Think it’ll look drastically different to the device we saw in the leaked pictures? Let us know what you think.
