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Motorola smartwatch does Android Wear in the round

As expected, LG was first up to announce a smartwatch based on Google’s wearable platform, formally announced yesterday as Android Wear. But later in the day, Motorola Mobility stepped up with its own Android Wear smartwatch to join the LG G Watch: the Moto 360. While the sole image released by LG of the G Watch showed a fairly typical squarish, if relatively svelte, watch face, the Moto 360 offers something entirely different: a round-faced watch.

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