Samsung took the wraps off its new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, today and to say the response has been muted would be an understatement. While the company managed to pack in an attractive 1.6-inch OLED screen into a wrist wearable device, the overall package is bulky, early hands-on testing found it slow, and even Samsung is saying you'll need to charge it every day. But perhaps worse than all that, the Galaxy Gear seems to have an identity problem: It needs your phone nearby to do much of anyth...
Samsung took the wraps off its new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, today and to say the response has been muted would be an understatement. While the company managed to pack in an attractive 1.6-inch OLED screen into a wrist wearable device, the overall package is bulky, early hands-on testing found it slow, and even Samsung is saying you'll need to charge it every day. But perhaps worse than all that, the Galaxy Gear seems to have an identity problem: It needs your phone nearby to do much of anyth...
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