Android Wear : From your hand to your wrist.

We are living in the era of the emergence of wearing the technology. The smartness of your phone is now more ergonomic with the new Android Wear. It requires a companion smartphone running Android 4.3 or later. That covers Kit Kat and the later versions of Jelly Bean qnd the upcoming Android L, but according to Google's own stats, only about a quarter of Android devices have either. For a variety of reasons, many recent phones can't be upgraded(*Fragmentation*). And of course, no iPhones. The companion phone doesn't have to be from the same manufacturer as the watch.   Most of your interactions with the watch are by voice, similar to using Google Now on Android phones and Siri on iPhones. You can scroll through a short menu of functions, but it's primarily there as suggestions and isn't comprehensive. To activate the voice function, just tap on the watch face or say "OK, Google." You can ask the watch to set an alarm, check your calendar or send a reminder. You can't use the watch as a speakerphone for calls, the way previous Samsung smartwatches allowed. But you can make calls or answer ones that come in. The call still goes through the phone, but that's not a problem if you have a Bluetooth headset. You can send texts by dictating a message or using canned ones such as "Yes," ''No," or "On my way." You can't add your own prewritten response, the way you can on Samsung's previous watches. Android Wear also lets you send and receive emails and read Facebook notifications. If you prefer using the phone, there's a button you can tap to have the message automatically open there.    Android Wear isn't quite there yet as a must-have product, but I can only imagine what it will evolve into in the months and years ahead. It helps that there's now a unified system that software developers can focus on improving.  To check on your phone's compatibility, visit this website from your device: android.com/wear/check .