The Galaxy Gear Preview: Samsung's First Wearable

As the smartphone and tablet markets shift from high growth to the early stages of maturity, forward looking companies are looking at other adjacent markets for continued growth. Wearable computing is one of those markets. The fit makes a lot of sense. Wearable devices benefit from the same sort of things that gave us the present ultra mobile revolution (efficient software, low power hardware), and at least initially can rely on the ubiquitous nature of the modern smartphone to provide data connectivity.

Today Samsung threw its hat in the wearables race with its announcement of the Galaxy Gear: a companion device designed to be worn like a watch.