The Apple Watch is, despite its many talents, a watch first and foremost. Rival Android Wear watches, which made a debut last year, are still frustrating wrist-top computers that happen to tell the time.

For more than a week, I’ve been that geek wearing a smartwatch on each wrist: On the right, there’s the $350 LG Watch Urbane, the first gadget to get Google’s most substantial Android Wear update yet. On the left, there’s the $350 (and up, way up) Apple Watch.

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