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Wear Android devices have not taken off between consumer tastes. Google

For lovers of smart watches, have you good news: a new wave of smartwatches will debut soon

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Asus, Huawei, LG and Motorola presented its new smart watches next week at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin, according to sources familiar with the plans of launching businesses. All these devices run the Android software Wear Google, which was created to enhance the technology devices such as smart dress watches.

You will forgive you if you do not remember android wear, which Google launched last year with great fanfare, but not It has resulted in any successful product. Launches next week will mark the second major wave of devices with android wear, that follows the presentation of 2014. Android opaque power the vast majority of smartphones in the world, and Google and its partners expect to experience the same success in the emerging market of clothing technology.

The goal is for the new android wear devices have sufficient functions and alternative designs to attract consumers and opt for them instead of Apple Watch, which, He Despite criticism, became the SmartWatch most popular in the world in its first months since its release this year.

“The Apple Watch has clearly raised the bar in the global industry of smart watches, “says analyst Neil Mawston, the firm Strategy Analytics. “Now is the turn of rivals such as Samsung, to issue a response.”

Some wearables that came out in the early wear technology sector, such as the Galaxy Gear Samsung came out in 2013, using Android, but the initial version of the software – that was not designed for the wearables – made devices are executed slowly and spent batteries quickly. Samsung quickly changed his own Tizen operating system to power their smart watches.

Android Wear emerged in early 2014 as a modified version of Android designed specifically for smart watches and other wearables Internet connection. Google and its partners – Samsung, LG and Motorola – presented their first devices using android wear during the Google developer conference in June 2014. The software promised a simpler interface, instant notifications and the ability to perform simple tasks as send text messages to friends and use voice commands. Meanwhile, other companies such as Sony and Asus introduced their own smart watches.

However, consumers showed indifference to those devices. The manufacturers of smartwatches total 720,000 units distributed devices with android wear in 2014, a total of 4.6 million of wearables , according to market research firm Canalys . Samsung, the selling of smartwatches The world’s largest last year, chose to drive devices running Tizen instead of android wear, and almost three out of four smartwatches that were sent in 2014 they came from the South Korean company.

smart android wear watches, the Motorola Moto 360 stands out for its round face and the company’s decision to use first-class materials and a metal body and strap leather. Other companies followed with a similar strategy. Motorola is expected to present the successor of this device at IFA.

Meanwhile, LG is expected to launch a similar LG Watch Urbane LTE smart watch, presented in March by the company. The LTE Urbane run WebOS software called LG acquired from Hewlett-Packard for use in its own products; the new version would be compatible with android wear

Huawei introduced its first SmartWatch -. a device designed to look like a classic round clock – during the technology fair Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. And Asus is expected to give more details of his ZenWatch 2, which was presented at the Computex technology trade show in Taiwan in June. The company has very little information on this device so far.

All smart watches manufacturers have been on hiatus since the launch of Apple Watch in April. With only three months in the technology market apparel, Samsung overtook Apple to become the leader in the segment of smartwatches . In the second quarter of this year, 76 percent of smart watches sold were Apple, while the market share of Samsung fell to 7.5 percent, according to Strategy Analytics.

Samsung will use IFA throw your SmartWatch most recent, the Gear Round S2, but the device will operate with Tizen, not android wear.

The manufacturers have seen the technology segment as a dress new market opportunity at a time when sales of phones and tablets have slowed. Such devices are considered more personal than others, and almost every major industry companies have ventured into the segment one way or another. Still, dressing devices have not penetrated the masses and most of those who have bought one so far are considered ‘early adopters’, people tend to buy a new appliance first. Even Apple has been able to attract a broader base of consumers, and many analysts believe that sales of watches have slowed.

“Although buyers are satisfied with the device, continue to see the product is losing momentum, “said James Moar, an analyst at Jupiter Research.