The smartwatch market is still very young, but Google just planted a very large flag in the ground. Its new Android Wear platform, which is designed to power all sorts of wearable gadgets but will start with smartwatches, represents a serious threat to competing devices like the Pebble Steel and upcoming challengers like the Samsung Gear 2. The Android Wear platform leverages the same contextual intelligence offered by Google Now available on smartphones.



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