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By now you have likely heard quite a lot about Android Wear and the upcoming devices the LG G Watch and Motorola Moto 360. If you haven’t, Android Wear is Google’s upcoming build of Android optimised for wearables such as smartwatches. So far just two manufactures have teased us with announcements of their upcoming Android Wear devices: LG and Motorola. There are also other Android Wear partners on-board including Samsung and HTC but we have yet to see anything official from them yet.
Up until now though we also hadn’t really heard many specific details about either of the announced devices either – beyond what they look like and that they run Android Wear. That was until yesterday, when a full system dump of the G Watch surfaced giving us a few details about the specifications and a first look at Android Wear, including a new boot animation which you can see below.
We think this looks absolutely beautiful and it has us really excited about upcoming tweaks to the Android design language. However, what makes it even more interesting is the word Android at the end. The animation shows an Android logo that differs in font and design to the one we have come to know. Could this be an upcoming replacement to the official Android logo design? It certainly looks that way and we can’t imagine LG would be allowed to use it otherwise. Check out the image below comparing the current logo to the one in the boot animation.
The leak also confirmed that the G Watch will have a display resolution of 280×280, feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (msm8226) SoC and sport 512MB of RAM.
The LG G Watch will likely launch some time during in July, we suspect near the beginning of the month alongside the G3. Between then and now we should see the official Android Wear launch at Google I/O where hopefully the big G will have some more goodies in store for us!
