MWC15: LG Watch Urbane LTE – More Like A Smartphone

In the first week of March 2015, in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, the LG Electronics will be demonstrating it wireless expertise with the help of the world’s first LTE enabled smartwatch. The next generation wearable watch, the LG Watch Urbane LTE, will also involve NFC and the host of other features which have never been proposed on a smart device for the wrist before.

The LG Watch Urbane LTE is the most ambitious as the fourth smartwatch from the LG Electronics. It provides the sophistication and the style of a real analog watch together with the highest level of micro technology centralized around a Plastic-OLED display of 1.3 inch. Under the Plastic-OLED display, this smartwatch combines all the communication capabilities of a smart phone in a polished metal wrist watch. Similar to any 4G phone, tit can send or receive messages as well as make or answer phone calls. The smartwatch offers, with carrier support, a Push To Talk, PTT, capability on the same cellular networks with other devices so the customers can utilize their smartwatch just like a walkie talkie to talk to multiple parties with unlimited range at the same time.

Some of the primary specifications of the watch are as follows:

• LG Wearable Platform Operating System
• Chipset of 1.2GHz Qualcomm SnapdragonTM 400
• LTE Network
• 1.3-inch P-OLED (320 x 320 / 245ppi) Display
• 4GB eMMC / 1GB LPDDR3 Memory
• 9 Axis / Barometer / PPG / GPS Sensors
• Battery of 700mAh
• Silver Colour
• WiFi 802.11 b, g, n / Bluetooth 4.0LE / NFC Connectivity
• Dust and Water Resistant (IP67) / Speaker / Microphone etc.

As the core of the LG Watch Urbane LTE there is all new LG Wearable Platform operating system which is specifically developed the proprietary wearable products of the company. Apart fromt he OS, the specified smartwatch goes on with most of the features of acclaimed LG G Watch R, containing a, with always on abient mode, display. Dichotomized with the largest 700mAh battery of the category, the LG Watch Urbane LTE provides impressive long talk together with usage time and it, in standby mode, can go for days.

The connectivity option presented by the watch, beyond the competition, is light years. NFC technology specifies that the wearers, on their wrists, will be having a virtual wallet. The users can also make payments for movie tickets, their meals, even transit fares easier and faster with the help of their LG Watch Urbane LTE without taking their wallets out. The ability to purchase movie tickets with the LG Watch Urbane LTE and receiving a reminder then of the movie a few hours in anticipation is all based on the payment information.

The president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company, Juno Cho, said that this watch is an example of the kind of innovation which is possible when you are the leader of the industry in the LTE technology. He also added that this smartwatch breaks the new ground with the first connectivity of the world and the real watch styling of a modern classic high end watch. It embodies their philosophy and innovation for a much better life.