Android Wear is rapidly coming of age, and manufacturers have realised wearables have to look good before customers will get on board with the technology. With the Zenwatch, Asus has proved that's possible without mimicking traditional watches completely; the square screen works in its favour and...

While the initial batch of smartwatches may have been found wanting in terms of design, opting for functionality over style, things have taken a turn for the better with the current crop of Android Wear devices at our disposal.

Premium design and build quality; Classy appearance; Great battery life; Beautiful display; Competitive price; Useful software additions

Clunky charger; Inconveniently placed power button

Of all the Android Wear devices out there, we think the ZenWatch is the most elegant. It has a design that looks like a watch and using a quality strap makes a difference. Ok, so it might not be a Jaeger-LeCoultre alligator strap, but it looks good, feels good and is nice to wear.

Great design; comfortable strap; good display; some software extras

Charging needs the base; some software duplication; Bluetooth connection issues

Smartwatches have a pretty bad reputation for being ugly, mini computers that prioritize function far above form. Much of that criticism is deserved - just look at the first two Android Wear...

Great looking design; Bright display; Comfortable to wear

Inaccurate step counting; Short battery life; Android Wear still needs work

The Asus ZenWatch is the first smartwatch from the Taiwanese tech maker to run Android Wear, and it comes with a touch of luxury due to its curved display and leather strap, stepping it up in the looks department in the increasingly crowded Android Wear market. At ￡199, can it stand out though?

This is such a good watch and it has all the bells and whistles too. It is so easy to setup with your android phone. It is light and the watch fave is not as big as you might think yet plenty bug to do what it needs to do. It's bigger than an apple watch and at a fraction if the price too.

Large, complicated and unnecessary are the first adjectives that jumped to mind when opening the packaging of this device, and so I immediately plunged into despair thinking that the ZenWatch would be bulky and unwieldy.

Elegant design; Flawless assembly; ZenWatch Manager app

Price still seems high; even at $200; Android Wear with ZenUI still unstable

Taiwanese computer maker Asus has entered the wearables arena with the ZenWatch, a good-looking, mid-priced Android smartwatch . The Asus ZenWatch certainly looks more like a watch than a smartwatch, and that's a good thing.

The ZenWatch is Asus's first venture into the smartwatch industry, and we were hoping for big things. In an industry overpopulated by Android Wear powered smartwatches, how does the ZenWatch stand out? Read our Asus ZenWatch review to find out whether the ￡199 ZenWatch is worth buying.

The Asus ZenWatch isn’t the most impressive smartwatch we’ve ever used, but it’s not the worst either. It’s a very good-looking, stylish smartwatch – something that’s a rarity in the smartwatch industry. The lack of buttons is definitely an issue, especially with the touchscreen input being as frustrating as it currently is. It does however boast a decent battery life and enough sensors for you to shake a stick at. Ultimately though, when you put this up against similarly priced smartwatches like the Moto 360, it can’t compete. The Moto 360 has a button disguised as a crown which is used to turn the display on and off, as well an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts screen brightness dependent on your lighting conditions. Ambient light sensors are a feature that smartwatches need, but very few have. It also has an optical heart rate monitor that periodically checks your pulse in the background without being prompted to, and without a need to physically interact with the watch. With an almost identical RRP, we’d rather go for the Moto 360.