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Information on the Samsung Gear

Wearable Technologies & the Samsung Gear

Wearable technologies in general are products and components of technologies that go into a wearable end product. Theses technologies include computing technologies, display technologies, networking technologies, positioning technologies, sensor technologies, and recognition technologies. As the growth of the use of mobile devices, as it ‘in just the past year the number of users who rely on mobile devices to get online increased by 30 percent to more than 1.5 billion subscribers worldwide.’ It is disputable that the market for wearable technology is massive, the products are segmented into four major applications, consumer, healthcare, enterprise and industrial, and others such as logistics and so on.

Samsung has developed the Gear, the first smart watch that simultaneously connects with your Samsung Note 3 that can be used to call, text, play music, take pictures, display notifications, check the weather, overlook the calendar and much more. The device is described as having a 1.63-inch 320 by 320 pixel display with a low quality 1.9 megapixel camera accompanied by a speaker and a microphone. The Gear features S voice, which allows you to use voice commands to complete any task. In essence, the Gear can do anything your Samsung Note 3 can do.

Advantages and Disadvantages

            Business managers who are constantly on the go will benefit from the Gear. The S-voice feature (similar to Apple’s Siri) uses voice commands to complete tasks such as sending an email, making a phone call, or creating a new appointment. It is useful for business managers who rarely have their smartphone on hand. The Gear is efficient in this case in accomplishing tasks faster than the time it would take to find one’s smartphone to do the same task. This is especially relevant to the individuals in the business sector who are not used to having their smart phone on them at all times. In this case, the Samsung Gear offers extreme convenience and multitasking capabilities, which can improve an individual’s efficiency. In addition, the Gear is always connected to a user’s Note 3, thus, notes, appointments, emails, ect, are regularly updating on both devices.

The Gear’s hefty price tag of 300 dollars may not be worth the switching costs. If a business manager’s current phone is the Samsung Note 2 they will need to upgrade to the Note 3 in order to use the Gear. Thus, Gear sales may be difficult as smartphone users may not be willing to purchase the Note 3. In the long run, it may be worth it for some users to keep their smartphone and use applications such as Siri to do similar tasks. Considering this, as the typical Samsung users enjoy their larger than average screen, individuals may dislike the small screen. Although there is a feature for larger font and bright display, it may be a difficult adjustment process especially for Samsung users. To add, younger business professionals, who are likely to have their smartphone on hand regularly, may not benefit from the Gear. They may be familiar with their current phone and thus both devices may be equally efficient. In this case, an email can be sent faster by the Note 3 compared to the Gear as the voice commander has a slow tone. However, it works well for people who do not have time to search for their phone. Lastly, the Gear may bee seen to some fashion forward business managers as unappealing or inappropriate to wear in an office environment as the watch is designed as more “business casual” for the average user.

Who uses wearable technologies?

Several companies have recently been designing and using wearable technologies. For instance, Apple has delayed the development of Apple TV as they concentrate on the development of an upcoming smart watch. Apple CEO Tim Cook has since said that wearable technology is an area that is in the beginning stages of exploration and has the potential to grow as research increases. In entering the wearable technology market, Apple would be competing with products like Google Glass and the Samsung Galaxy Gear. In turn, Samsung’s opponents must respond to the Gear in order to jeopardize losing profit and/or customers.

Future use of the Gear (Future Prevalence and Barriers to Adoption)

According to Juniper Research, worldwide spending on wearable technologies will hit $1.4 billion this year and is expected to increase to $19 billion by 2018. According to the benefits of wearable technology market, a lot of companies has already started invest this technology.

The primary barrier to entry for wearable technology presently is skepticism.  Harris interactive conducted an only survey with 2577 adults in which 47% of Americans said that they could see no use for wearable technology in their daily lives. Another issue with wearable technology is aesthetics; 41% disagreed that wearable technology could be stylish. Another issue is that there is already a huge existing market for smartphones. Would people be willing to replace their smart phone with a wearable technology or buy wearable technology in addition to their smartphones? It is also considerably costly to create a completely original product and with the current level of uncertainty investors have been slower to inject capital. Wearable technology such as the Nexis watch and Google glass will also require a network that can handle large amounts of variant devices constantly logging in and out of their network. Since wearable technologies are just starting to emerge in the marketplace there are major costs in marketing as well. Corporations are willing to delegate money to product design for a something that is already widely used such as cell phones, but is the public really convinced yet that wearable technologies can add efficiency and enjoyment to their daily lives?