If you've
purchased an LG G Watch recently, or were one of the lucky attendees at
Google's I/O conference to get the wearable for free, you may have noticed that
the device's bottom charging connectors are prone to corrosion.
Users have
complained that the corrosion is causing them discomfort (due to the
metal-to-skin contact), as well as problems with charging the device; some
users aren't able to get their smartwatches to charge at all.
While this
seems like an entirely hardware issue, LG assures that an OTA software update
will fix the problem. Just how can a software update stop the metallic charging
connectors from corroding, you ask?
Well, the G
Watch constantly streams a current to the watches bottom conductors - even when
the device isn't charging. As a result, when the watch makes contact with your
sweat-covered skin, grime builds up and boom, that's where the corrosion
begins.
So what's LG
to do? A rep breaks it down:
"LG
will be rolling out a maintenance release over the next few days that will
disable the current when the G Watch is not in the charging dock...[this will
be] completely safe and unlikely to affect charging."
If the
software update does what LG intends, then the Korean tech manufacturer will
save itself a lot of money in product recalls. The update was pushed out
yesterday, so time will tell if this solves the corrosion issue and if not,
then LG will surely have a lot of irate customers on its hands.
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