TECH TITANS: SAMSUNG GALAXY GEAR

For all you techies who are always looking for the latest and most innovative products, just days away from IFA 2013, the gadget spectacle where the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smart-watch will be launched in Germany. The IFA is an industry trade show taken place in Germany allowing the world’s top technology titans to distribute and showcase their eleventh-hour goods to attendees. With the world on its toes to get a hold of the newest exciting technology, the IFA show is just the place to be – the heart of the action. Around 240,000 gadget fans flock to Berlin each year to the join 1,439 companies from 57 countries show off their top guns. As VentureBeat would call this, the smorgasbord of tip-top tech, the newest technology from the tiniest phone to the biggest television make their dashing debut.Let’s make our way back to the curiosity enveloping the Galaxy Gear smart watch – VentureBeat got the first glimpse of the new product and apparently the word to describe it is.. bizarre. With the whole smart-watches scene blowing up within the last few years, you would expect a larger turnaround from the latest gadget. One tech review stated that it looks exactly like the Galaxy S4 except that it got nailed with a shrink ray. In true Samsung fashion, the company packed the little gadget with a 4 megapixel camera, a WiFi radio, speakers, and a microphone to deliver voice commands to a connected Samsung smartphone. However, the optimism for battery life never fails; the Galaxy Gear only functions for around 10 hours before having to recharge.To recap what we know about the Galaxy Gear:• High quality OLED displays will show the full spectrum of colors.• The display will be around 2.5 inches diagonally (and 3 inches diagonally including the case.)• It will be powered by a dual core processor, probably a Samsung Exynos 4212 dual core 1.5GHz with Mali-400 MP4 GPU.• It has a camera and a microphone integrated into the strap and even tiny speakers.• It has Built in NFC and Bluetooth 4.0 LE• The Gear is powered by Android 4.3, with keyboard featured turned off.• The device won’t have a browser and will need the phone to tether to the Internet.• It will need a Samsung device with a watch-focused app store to install apps on the watch.• It has a built-in accelerometer and other sensors that will allow it to act has a quantified self device.• Expect battery power to be 24 hours with modest use, but around 10 hours with more active usage.Although Samsung has added plenty of complexity to the smartwatch formula, technology just don’t seem to live up to people’s expectations nowadays. The full drop will be done tomorrow, September 4th in Berlin – don’t be the last to know! Raine will always try to keep you posted in the must-know!