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Samsung launches Galaxy Gear smartwatch

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has unveiled its hotly anticipated smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, which allows users to make calls, receive texts and emails and take photos.

05.09.2013

(AFP) South Korean electronics giant Samsung has unveiled its hotly anticipated smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, which allows users to make calls, receive texts and emails and take photos.

JK Shin, head of Samsung's mobile division, predicted the Galaxy Gear, effectively a mobile you wear on your wrist, would become "a new fashion icon through the world" as he launched the device at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.