The LG Watch urbane is impressive and beautifully crafted. The new user interface based on WebOS is really intuitive with a fully functional keyboard for messaging and placing phone calls. I am eager to know the pricing and when we will be able to get it in the US.

Related – Best Android Watches LG is no stranger to the smartwatch game at this point and it certainly shows, judging by the design and build quality of its latest offering. The Watch Urbane is classy and elegant, and looks great not just in terms of being a smartwatch, but as a watch in general,...

Android Wear makers have clearly scrambled to see who can put together the most premium-looking smartwatch ever since Apple announced the Apple Watch.

The Watch Urbane is, in my utterly subjective opinion, the best-looking Wear device yet announced. The Huawei Watch and Moto 360 also look nice, but the Huawei Watch simply is too generic "steel luxury watch" for me, and while the 360 is definitely quite stylish with the right face, I've never been...

Really, really nice The Watch Urbane feels just as nice as it looks - nicer even, perhaps; The polished body is gorgeous, and the subtle design changes make it a much more elegant piece than the G Watch R, Wear 5.1 Android Wear 5.1 adds some new features and overhauls the Wear UI in a few areas, but...

Round screens are still a mixed bag A smaller standard font size and font size options (new in Wear 5.1) make a significant difference compared to the G Watch R; but rectangular text layouts on a circular screen are a difficult pitfall to avoid unless you make the screen really big; $350 It's the...

The Watch Urbane , LG's latest Android Wear smartwatch, is what you get when you take the company's G Watch R , replace its plastic case with stainless steel and swap out the generic leather strap with a stitched one.

You can understand why Android enthusiasts might be resentful of the Apple Watch. Android Wear has been around long enough for manufacturers like LG to release several generations of smartwatch, but listen to some and you'd be excused for thinking Cupertino had invented the segment.

Along with its new Android Wear Urbane model, LG was showing off a rather different kind of smartwatch: the Watch Urbane LTE. As the name suggests, the watch has built-in 4G, but it also runs LG's own Wearable OS operating system.

We spent some time with the LG Watch Urbane, and came away pretty upbeat about what LG has managed to create. The Watch Urbane is clearly targeting high-end style-conscious buyers. While it definitely doesn't look like a plastic toy, the finish was a little too blingy for our tastes.

LG is a veteran of sorts in the emerging niche of smart wearables. The Watch Urbane is a third generation device refining one of the early circular designs that seem to be the thing now. Smart watches are aiming for a less gadgety look in favor of a classic timepiece design.

ImageTagInstance gallery-acc2d824-d46c-456e-844a-738dbc24dbd2 ImageTagInstance gallery-182bbef8-dd44-4416-9a27-15024ea26730 IntroductionWhen we got our hands on a modern-day smartwatch for the first time back at the end of 2013, we weren't quite sure what to make of this new paradigm. Here was a whole new category, with hype around it reaching a crescendo, and many wondering if it wasn't destined to take a place next to smartphones by providing a lucrative new revenue stream for traditional and emerging gadget manufacturers alike.Entrants — such as HTMLTagInstance html-tag-80f45f3c-755b-43df-9ab9-f5e0dddcc5a2 Pebble — definitely made a small fortune on the form factor, but things have been rather quiet overall. That is, until Apple announced that it's going after the still small and highly niche market with its own Watch. By then, however, we had an entirely different view on smartwatches.Smartwatches weren't going to be as big a deal as smartphones were (and still are) — not even clos...