The LG Watch W7: A Redesigned Smartwatch with Mechanical Watch Hands

The LG Watch W7 is the latest smartwatch from Google, featuring a unique design that combines mechanical watch hands with a digital touchscreen. The watch runs on a quartz movement and has three buttons on the right side, which serve as the redesigned Wear OS notification system.

One of the key features of the LG Watch W7 is its use of rotating crowns to scroll through the Wear LS user interface. This allows users to easily navigate through their notifications and settings. The watch also features a redesigned Google Fit app on the right, along with Google Assistant and other personal information pulled from email such as flight tracking and parcel delivery.

The top button on the LG Watch W7 is used to hide the mechanical watch hands when scrolling through the interface. This allows users to easily view their notifications without being obstructed by the hands. The bottom button gives access to LG's Master Tools, which includes an altimeter, compass, and timer.

What's interesting about the LG Watch W7 is that the mechanical watch hands are used as the primary interface for these tools. For example, when running a stopwatch, the start button activates the mechanical hand, allowing users to switch between modes easily. The middle button can launch the app drawer, which has a different layout than before, with larger and easier-to-tap app icons.

One of the standout features of the LG Watch W7 is its battery life. Despite running on an older Wear 2100 processor, LG claims it can last up to two days. There's also an analog mode that keeps the watch alive for three to four days, and a watch-only mode that turns off the processor completely, allowing the mechanical watch hands to run for up to 100 days.

However, some features are missing from the LG Watch W7, including NFC, heart rate monitoring, and GPS. The watch costs $450, which is pricey considering its limited feature set. However, LG positions the watch as a casual smartwatch aimed at people who want something that looks nice and can last a while.

The 22mm strap feels nice and is interchangeable, with a masculine design overall. Despite being big at 44.5mm, the 1.2-inch LCD screen has a 360x360 resolution that remains sharp and readable.

The LG Watch W7 goes on sale on October 14th, with pre-orders starting at Best Buy on October 7th.

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before it dies to definitely test these claims as we're a bit skeptical considering we haven't seen that good battery life with where 2100 processor watches there's no NFC no heart rate monitor and no GPS also this watch costs four hundred and fifty dollars it's pricey and you're not getting a ton of features but LG is positioning this more as a casual SmartWatch for people than just one notifications something that looks nice and can last a while the 22 millimeter strap feels nice and it's silicon and it's interchangeable the design overall feels pretty masculine and it's absolutely big at forty four point five millimeter case but that 1.2 inch LCD screen has a 360 by 360 resolution that still sharp and readable the watch goes on sale on October 14th but pre-orders start at Best Buy on October 7theveryone this is the LG watch w7 it's running the latest redesigned we're less from Google and the key feature here is that it has mechanical watch hands layered over a digital touchscreen it's running a quartz movement it see there's three buttons on the right side and that's the redesigned wear OS notification system you can actually use these rotating crown to scroll through the wear LS user interface that's the redesigned google fit on the right and on the left is google assistant and all the other personal information that it pulls from your email such as flight tracking and when you're getting your next parcel the top button is used to hide the mechanical watch hands so that when you're scrolling through and if the mechanical watch hands are blocking your view you can press that top button to sort of put them at the nine in three positions to hide them and the bottom button is gives you access to LG's master tools Master Tools has things like an altimeter compass of rahmanir and a timer and again this mechanical watch hands run on the quartz movement books what's neat is that the hands are used as the primary interface for these tools so if you run a stopwatch for example when you press the start button it's a mechanical hand that suddenly moves and switch over and start and you can resume it and as soon as you sort of go back to that default watch screen you go back to the actual time the middle button can launch the app door and you can see the layout is a little different here than before so the image app icons are much bigger and easier to tap on the key feature on this watch other than the mechanical watch hands the battery life LG says it can last two days despite running the older where 2100 processor but there's also an analog mode that keeps it alive for three to four days and even better there's a watch only mode that turns off where or less completely so you can use the mechanical watch heads for a hundred days before it dies to definitely test these claims as we're a bit skeptical considering we haven't seen that good battery life with where 2100 processor watches there's no NFC no heart rate monitor and no GPS also this watch costs four hundred and fifty dollars it's pricey and you're not getting a ton of features but LG is positioning this more as a casual SmartWatch for people than just one notifications something that looks nice and can last a while the 22 millimeter strap feels nice and it's silicon and it's interchangeable the design overall feels pretty masculine and it's absolutely big at forty four point five millimeter case but that 1.2 inch LCD screen has a 360 by 360 resolution that still sharp and readable the watch goes on sale on October 14th but pre-orders start at Best Buy on October 7th\n"