LG Watch W7 review

If you are interested in the LG Watch W7, then we suggest you look elsewhere unless it is being sold for a steep discount. Otherwise, you will be paying over the odds for an underpowered and under-equipped smartwatch that does less than its competitors but costs more.

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The LG Watch W7 is neat idea foiled by flawed execution. If LG’s planning a follow-up, it will need more features, a lower price tag, and a much-improved design to survive.

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It still deserves more fine-tuning on its own software, and there are more than a few hardware changes I would suggest before recommending this to too many people. But I actually would recommend this to some people. There's finally a smartwatch for the people that say, "I need it to be a watch first."

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Because this device is marketed as a traditional timepiece, with no heart rate monitor or GPS, it’s automatically out of the picture for fitness enthusiasts. Because of its price and with so many other options to them, I think genuine watch enthusiasts would also not care for it. So here we are, a watch seemingly made for no one.

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I much prefer wearing a traditional-looking watch over a gadgety smartwatch, and the W7 is perhaps the most traditional-looking smartwatch I’ve ever tested. But if I’m going to commit to living with a smartwatch on my wrist and deal with charging it every day, I want it to do all of the things I expect a smartwatch to do, and I don’t want to put up with the compromises the W7’s design forces.

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The W7 is going in a different direction than other smartwatches. While Apple is branching out with more health monitoring in its Apple Watch 4, the LG Watch W7 wants a spot in the nicer parts of your wardrobe. Or it might be a smartwatch for folks who prefer how timepieces used to look.

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