Hands On: LG Urbane, Urbane LTE Smartwatches

The LG Watch Urbane LTE packs all of the capabilities you’d find in a smartphone, minus the need for an actual smartphone.

There are three physical buttons on the right side of the watch. Want to see your apps? Press the middle button. The top button brings you to some quick settings, and the bottom button will take you back to where you were.

Although LG won’t say the Urbane LTE is running webOS, it is running something that looks awfully similar.

Although the model I saw doesn’t have a ton of apps on board, it does have a decent amount of functionality, including apps for LG Health, Music, Messaging, Cashbee, Voice Memo, Find My Phone, and a remote camera shutter.

The Watch Urbane LTE has a heart rate sensor on the inside of the watch that sits against your wrist.

True to its name, the Watch Urbane LTE is LTE­-enabled, which helps explain why the thing is so incredibly large—LG had to fit an LTE modem in there somewhere.

The Watch Urbane LTE has a bulk rubber clasp.

The LG Watch Urbane (right) comes with genuine leather bands in either black or brown.

Aside from the new look, the Watch Urbane has pretty much the same guts as the G Watch R, so this is really just an aesthetic upgrade.

LG’s fleet of new smartwatches. The Watch Urbane LTE is flanked on either side by a Watch Urbane.