LG has promoted a slew of new products at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas this week, but the Korean company has also presented its plans for the future. And for the latter, it was learned that a smartwatch powered by webOS rather than Android Wear would be marketed in future reports the Wall Street Journal.
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It seems that the leaders of the South Korean firm want to fight against a new hegemony of Google (similar to the Mountain View company has in the area of mobile operating system), although there is no otherwise it will cease to launch Android devices such as the G Wear Watch R.
"We will try to slowly build an ecosystem around the areas on which we can have more control" , said an anonymous source from LG at WSJ. Ultimately, this statement could also include smartphones, the original home for webOS - after all, a smartwatch need a smartphone to synchronize.
Time flies .
Unfortunately, it will certainly wait at the beginning of 2016 if you want to take a look at what LG has in the pipeline, although the news are not exactly a huge surprise - we suspected that it was in the roadmap the firm since last October.
For the uninitiated, webOS, debuted on Palm smartphones. It was taken over by HP when Palm was gone, and then sold to LG. Today, the company uses to provide its Smart TV platform.
Audi would have a prototype of the smartwatch webOS
While LG and Audi announced this week that they work together on a smartwatch, few details were provided at the press conference. Now people of Android Central have tracked the watch, and learned that the latter is not Android. Indeed, it runs on webOS.
Watch the duo Audi / LG has a round dial, a stainless steel design, and provides support to a number of applications for managing music, calendar, e-mail, messaging and health applications and a "Call" application that allows you to make calls on the watch, whether or not combined with a smartphone.
Knowing that this watch is developed in partnership with Audi, there is also support voice commands that allow you, for example, to unlock a car brand with your voice.
webOS on this watch does not look like the OS on smartphones, tablets and TVs . But under the hood, the execution of the code is similar and shows that Samsung is not the only company interested in developing its own operating system. Indeed, LG is not the only one to find an alternative to Android Wear, since Samsung also has its own OS Tizen, for some of its smartwatches, its televisions and smartphones.
See also : Apple Watch: apparently it will be launched in March
It seems that the leaders of the South Korean firm want to fight against a new hegemony of Google (similar to the Mountain View company has in the area of mobile operating system), although there is no otherwise it will cease to launch Android devices such as the G Wear Watch R.
Time flies .
Unfortunately, it will certainly wait at the beginning of 2016 if you want to take a look at what LG has in the pipeline, although the news are not exactly a huge surprise - we suspected that it was in the roadmap the firm since last October.
For the uninitiated, webOS, debuted on Palm smartphones. It was taken over by HP when Palm was gone, and then sold to LG. Today, the company uses to provide its Smart TV platform.
Audi would have a prototype of the smartwatch webOS
Knowing that this watch is developed in partnership with Audi, there is also support voice commands that allow you, for example, to unlock a car brand with your voice.
webOS on this watch does not look like the OS on smartphones, tablets and TVs . But under the hood, the execution of the code is similar and shows that Samsung is not the only company interested in developing its own operating system. Indeed, LG is not the only one to find an alternative to Android Wear, since Samsung also has its own OS Tizen, for some of its smartwatches, its televisions and smartphones.