Forget your Android Wear timepieces, or even the Apple Watch: carmaker Audi has teamed up with LG to create one of the best looking smartwatches we've seen, and it ditches Android Wear in favour of LG's own open webOS. Fancy one of these? Read on for all the details.
AndroidCentral has managed to get a peek at the smartwatch collaboration between Audi and LG, and it looks like one of the most desirable digital timepieces we've seen to date. The watch was teased during Audi’s press conference, while the carmaker claims that it's just a prototype, but it gives us a look at the future of what LG is cooking up - and it looks like the company's lightweight Open webOS is a part of that.
Originally developed by Palm, LG picked up some of the pieces of webOS left behind in 2013 after HP bought, and later dropped, the company and it serves the basis for LG's mystery watch, along with its flagship range of TVs. The currently nameless watch itself looks like a modified version of the G Watch R, complete with a stainless steel finish and leather strap, and it's made to work with Audi's in-car systems, such as unlocking your car over NFC.
LG and Audi are keeping mum on the specific details, but it looks to be a whole lot more standalone than your typical Android Wear watch which is tethered to your phone. The mystery watch packs in a dialer, a messaging app, music, calendar, email and "LG Health W", likely to be an extension of the company's health app.
We're waiting for more details to drop on this tantalising watch, but if Audi and LG have proved anything, it's that we really, really want one. Stay tuned as we'll be sure to bring you the latest details as soon as we hear them.
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