Watch Urbane now on Amazon for Rs 29,990

G Watch Urbane resembles LG's earlier products LG Watch R

LG's flagship smartwatch, the G Watch Urbane, is now available in India on the Amazon website. While the watch is being sold at Rs 29,990 on the e-commerce site, its listed maximum retail price is Rs 35,000. 

The watch has a 1.3-inch P-OLED (plastic OLED) display with a 320 x 320-pixel resolution. Featuring Wi-fi connectivity, it has the ability to draw emojis. According to Mirror Daily, although the watch looks similar to its predecessor, the LG Watch R, the Urbane appears brighter in direct sunlight and is, therefore, easier to read.  

Unlike Watch R, the Urbane is no longer “dull and unreliable” as customers have put it, so far, Mirror Daily said. The Urbane sports a stainless steel body, unlike the plastic body of the Watch R. 

CNET says the display is “big and bright and crisp; just high-res enough to not look pixelated”. 

The Urbane is a few grams heavier than the Watch R, but looks more compact. It is water resistant, but one can't shower with it as the leather strap isn't water resistant. Running Android Wear, it canl pair with phones running Android 4.3 or later.

The Urbane will be up against the Apple Watch. According to gizmag.com, the first big difference between the two is in the size. The Urbane is 24 per cent taller, 28 per cent wider and four per cent thicker than the Apple Watch, gizmag.com writes. This is when the larger Apple Watch is compared with the Urbane. The Apple Watch has a sharper screen (approximately 326 ppi to the Urbane's 245 ppi), but the Urbane's screen is also 21 per cent bigger.