Samsung Gear Live Release Date: Android Wear Powered Smartwatch Avail. On July 7 For $199; Specs Incl. 1.63 Inch Super AMOLED Display, App Notifications

Samsung Gear Live release date: The Android Wear-powered Samsung Gear Live is yet another wearable from Samsung that puts in your wrist whatever Google Now can deliver, displayed in a 1.63-inch Super AMOLED display. The device will be available on July 7 for $199.

Mirroring in many ways the look of its predecessor, the Gear Live has a bold and rectangular watch face with chrome accents, according to a review by Toms Guide. The site also notes that it “looks too big for anyone with a wrist that's smaller than Shaquille O'Neal's.”

For Gear Live, Samsung used a different wrist strap, making it a bit more comfortable to wear. It doesn’t however feel secure regardless of how much you tighten it. The strap can be changed with any 22m strap available for watches.

Dimensions of the Samsung Gear Live are 2.2 x 1.5 x 0.35 inches and weighs 2.1 ounces. Similar to most Android Wear devices, the Gear Live is dust and water-resistant. Toms Guide says that the wearable can be submerged in up to 3 feet of water for 30 minutes.

The Gear Live’s screen is a 1.63-inch 320x320 pixel Super AMOLED display. Like the Gear 2 Neo, it features an always-on display that dims when not in use. This allows you to check the time on the Live anytime.

When the Gear Live is deemed, its display shows you the time on a black watch face with minute and hour hands and hash marks. The bottom of the screen shows the most recent notifications in simple white text.

One downside about the Gear Live is that it’s extremely difficult to see in direct sunlight when dimmed.

A key function of a wearable is to help give notifications for apps from your smartphone. The wearable OS Android Wear supports these notifications for virtually any app from your smartphone’s notification drawer. Toms Guide notes that these include everything from instant messaging and email services to EPSN ScoreCenter and Twitter. Android Wear can also see when you’ve let go of a notification in the Chrome browser or smartphone.

A negative though with the notifications is that it only allows you to reply to messages received from Google-specific apps like Hangouts and Gmail.

Wearables still has a way to go for mainstream adaption but with numerous devices available in the market, Samsung is definitely trying to flood its way to dominance.