[LG G Watch R] brgmtt:
Hi everyone; I bought the LG G Watch R on Monday and, since then, I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with it: it seems that the only thing the smartwatch is good at is telling the time. Thus I am posting here, hoping that some of you may have had the same issues I'm having, and may know a solution to any of them.

First: I understand the watch is supposed to turn on when I move the wrist to look at it; however, it only does so ~5% of the times, while in other cases a violent shake is necessary to wake it up (most often, though, the only way is to tap the screen or press the button)...

Second, connection issues: when I'm speaking to the watch, it often happens that it starts recognizing words, but at some point stops and complains of being "offline" (while, instead the, phone it's connected to is on a very good WiFi connection); other times it says it's not connected to the phone (while the Android Wear app on the phone says it's connected). This may also happen after it has recognized all of the voice input: for example, after I tell it to set up an alarm, it shows it has recognized the correct input, but then goes "offline".

Third, inconsistency between what's displayed and what's really happened: after asking it to do a certain task (be it send an sms, answer a WhatsApp message or whatever), the watch often says that it was not able to contact google, or that I should try again "on the phone", while instead the action has actually been performed correctly! For example, I once sent the same SMS 4 times in a row, because it kept saying it hadn't worked.

Fourth, voice recognition: as of now, I have not been able to send one SMS without repeating it at least three times... Actually, this is probably not related to the watch itself, but rather to the google voice recognition software: I am Italian, thus the voice recognition language is set to Italian (I would gladly issue commands in English, but if I suddenly started to send all of my messages in English, most of those I know would think I've gone crazy: it would be nice to have the option to distinguish between a "commands" language and a "content" language); this means that, first of all, I have to say everything at once: for example, I must say (the italian equivalent of) "Send SMS to [contact] hello", because if I only say "Send SMS" or "Send SMS to [contact]", it doesn't work (I was excited about the new feature of 5.1.1, which has a list of contacts: it should theoretically be possible to choose the contact, hit "Send SMS" and send the message, but unfortunately, this causes the "Android Wear" app on the watch to crash unexpectedly).

Then, I have friends whose surname is made of multiple words, some of which may also be "first names" (for example, "Fabio" is a first name and "Di" is a preposition, but "Di Fabio" is a surname): this completely breaks the voice recognition algorithm, so that when I try to send an sms to "Alessandro Di Fabio" saying "ciao", I get an SMS sent to some other "Alessandro", and the text of the SMS is "Fabio ciao".

Punctuation is not always understood as such: for example, saying (the Italian equivalent of) "dot dot dot" sometimes results in the expected "...", but other times it is transcribed literally.

Finally, odd things can happen: if I try to send an SMS saying "ok, grazie!" (i.e. "OK, thank you!"), the text that gets sent is only "ok" (maybe the voice recognition thinks I'm thanking it?), and sometimes, even though the input is correctly parsed as "Send SMS to [contact] [text]", a Google Search starts...

I understand that voice recognition, after only 50+ years of development, may still be in its infancy, but it seems odd to me that the release of a device which nevertheless completely relies on it may be allowed or even conceived, given the current state of the art (if this is the current state of the art).

I know this may seem a rant (and it partly is, since I feel that I have wasted 200€ on a glorified toy watch), but I'm posting here for three main reasons: first of all to understand if I'm alone (maybe I got faulty hardware, even if I don't think so); second, to advice those who may come here still undecided not to buy the device; and finally because sending feedback to google or posting in its "community support" forums didn't have any effect (not even an automated mail saying "thank you, we got your feedback!"): is there someone else I should try complaining to?