{"id":21500,"date":"2014-09-10T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2014-09-10T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:44:47","slug":"on-the-cheap-50-off-lgs-smartwatch-the-g-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/cheap\/on-the-cheap-50-off-lgs-smartwatch-the-g-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap: $50 Off LG&#8217;s Smartwatch, The G Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/a-few-minutes-on-the-new-apple-watch\/\">Apple Watch<\/a> yesterday, I&#8217;m not sure that I personally have a need for a smartwatch. I certainly can&#8217;t justify spending $350 on the stunning Apple Watch or $250 on the equally snazzy Moto 360. But what if there was a device with much of the same functionality, a little less flair, and a lot less cost?<\/p>\n<p>The LG G Watch was one of the first Android Wear devices, can do everything the Moto 360 can, and has a slightly more staid housing (even Samsung&#8217;s has more zip). If you don&#8217;t necessarily want to wear a phone that screams &#8220;mug me&#8221;, then here&#8217;s good news: From now until September 23, you can snag this device <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/devices\/details?id=lg_g_watch_black\">for a mere $179<\/a> (for a given value of mere).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re salivating over the look of higher-end devices, the G Watch isn&#8217;t for you. However, if you&#8217;re an Android user with a need for a wrist-based companion device and you don&#8217;t mind being an early adopter? Then, this is a solid deal for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my thoughts on the Apple Watch yesterday, I&#8217;m not sure that I personally have a need for a smartwatch. I certainly can&#8217;t justify spending $350 on the stunning Apple Watch or $250 on the equally snazzy Moto 360. But what if there was a device with much of the same functionality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,1918],"tags":[5079,5155,3,5161,5158,75,5082,5160,4515,2746,2046,5157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21509,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions\/21509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}