Yesterday, Tick smart watch based on domestic platform was launched. This smart watch features phone alerts, health monitoring and traditional functions.
You can take a subway by Just swiping your watch, without looking for your bus card in a rush. This will soon be realized in June in Beijing, China. Yesterday, Beijing Yuanxin Technologies presented its new product Tick in Beijing. The company said, the company is now in talks with one of the card manufacturers of Beijing Municipal Transportation. The company will implant the mini card in the smart watch.
Samsung launched its long-awaited Galaxy S5 smartphone two days ago, with two smartwatches and an activity band at an event at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.
When the S5's predecessor the Galaxy S4 launched last year, much attention was on gimmicks such as the phone's ability to watch a user's eyes move and scroll webpages accordingly.
The fifth generation Galaxy concentrates more on solid improvements. Battery capacity has been increased by about 8 per cent, and the S5 is water resistant to a depth of 1 metre for 30 minutes, with underwater snaps now feasible. It's dust and sand resistant.
A user can swipe their finger vertically down the home button to unlock it, and to make payments online with PayPal. Samsung Australia's chief marketing officer Arno Lenior said the company had worked with Commonwealth Bank and Westpac to implement tap-and-go payments with the phone at retails outlets.
With competitors such as HTC breathing down its neck, Samsung has made improvements to its camera. Main camera resolution has increased from 13 to 16 megapixels, there's fast autofocussing (0.5 seconds), and an ability to change the focus applied to snaps after they are taken.
A feature called "downloader booster" lets users combine their Wi-Fi and 4G cellular data streams for faster downloading and streaming, while "ultra power saving mode" will turn the colour display to black and white to save energy. Users nominate a maximum of 6 apps that operate in this mode.
The S5 has a slightly bigger 5.1-inch display, a faster 2.5 Gigahertz processor, is 15 grams heavier, and has a heart rate sensor located underneath the rear facing camera. The two smart watches and fitness band also have heart rate monitors and can send recorded data to the Galaxy S5's S Health app.
Mr Lenior said that by launch date, he expected the phone to be "Blue Tick" approved by Telstra, for being optimised for use in regional and rural areas. Parallel imported S5 were not optimised for local use, he said.
Australian S5 handsets will be limited to 16 Gigabytes of internal memory, as the S4 was last year. Memory can be augmented by installing a microSD card, but 16GB is small for a phone costing near $1000.
Samsung has replaced the shiny plastic back of the S4 with a polycarbonate plate that has a leathery feel - similar but not identical to the Note 3's. The back plates are available in white, black, blue and gold.
For $59.59, users can replace their plate with a fashioned back cover designed by Moschino or Nicholas Kirkwood. Australian designs will follow.
The S5 can be preordered from today for $929 outright, and the Gear 2 smartwatch with camera costs $369.95. The Gear 2 Neo smartwatch and Gear Fit activity band will sell for $249.
They go on sale on April 11.
All three major Australian telcos will sell the S5 and its wearables. Telstra's plans for the S5 start at $12 per month on its $70 mobile acceleration plan over 24 months, Optus's start at $26 per month on its $35 My Plan while Vodafone's plans begin from $0 upfront on its $100 Red 12 or 24 month plan.
The S5 operating system is Google's Android Kitkat 4.4.2, but the two smartwatches use Samsung's new operating system called Tizen. The rivalry between Tizen and Android on smartwatches such as those being manufactured by HTC looms as an interesting battle.
Samsung will be banking on its second generation smartwatches being more successful than last year's.
Both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo can accept or ignore incoming calls, receive notifications and connect with the S-Health app. 3.03 for customised fitness features.
Users can manage emails from their wrists, listen to music, and take and share photos through their connected Samsung phone.
They have 1.63-inch displays and a heart rate monitor. The Gear 2 has an IR blaster which lets it operate as a TV remote.
The Gear 2 Neo has the features of the Gear 2 but is without a 2.0 megapixel camera. Both can use a variety of wristwatch watchbands.
The Gear Fit has a curved 1.84-inch display that's long and thin and is an apt shape for a wrist-bound device. You scroll horizontally to move through menu choices. It's mainly an activity monitor with a heart rate checker and pedometer.
It does alert you to incoming calls, alarms, schedule events, missed calls, messages and email. You'll need to follow them through using your phone.
The S5 comes as Taiwan's HTC readies its rival HTC One (M8) smartphone for Australian release. It will launch its handset in Sydney this evening.

Google is ready to try its hand at smartwatches with its "Android Wear" initiative.
Partnering with manufacturers, chip makers, and fashion brands, Google is planning a full scale roll-out of smartwatches in the near future. Google built a version of its Android operating system specifically for watches, with the hope that it will achieve success similar to Android for smartphones.
Conceptually, the Android Wear software looks like an extension of the software that Google built for Glass, Google's smart glasses released a year ago.
Android Wear will deliver notifications to the watch without you having to dig around too much for them. It will also respond to voice commands. Both are things Google is already pretty good at.
But Android Wear promises to take things one step further when it comes to contextual awareness: It won't just alert you to texts and emails or navigate you in the right direction, which some wearables already do. A conceptual video made by Google shows and Android Wear watch providing a woman with her airline boarding pass when she arrives at the gate and a jellyfish warning for surfers just before they get their boards out of a truck.
Essentially, it will be Google Now -- Google's contextual information service -- on your wrist.
This approach to software is a promising move for Google and for wearables in general. Also encouraging is that it seems like Google isn't trying to replicate smartphone features on a smaller device. Instead, Android Wear apps will identify the specific features that might work better on your wrist.
One of the great pitfalls of Samsung's Galaxy Gear watch is how much tapping and swiping you had to do to even get the most basic information. If Android Wear can cut down on the amount we have to interact with our wearables, that could be a huge success story.
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Motorola announced Thursday that it will release a "Moto 360" smartwatch powered by Android Wear in the summer. Google also partnered with Asus, HTC, LG, Samsung, Intel, Qualcomm and Fossil among others to release smartwatches later this year.
This initial wave of planned smartwatches is sticking to the traditional watch metaphor for wearable devices. Disappointingly, the watch concept isn't nearly as futuristic as its software counterpart.
Traditional watches are pragmatic, though: They can be built and sold to the masses right now at an attainable price, and the average user will be more likely to want and understand a traditional watch than some sort of a display that curves around the wrist.
Still, we'll still be wearing nerd-squares and circles on our wrists. Hopefully this is an aspect that evolves over time.
It won't be until these devices hit store shelves that we'll see if Android Wear can overcome many of the problems maligning current smartwatches. But Google's head is