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Be triggered by button presses on its Media Button, on your phone, or on the device’s touch screen. Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Opening up the FrontRow package was a treat.The design of the FrontRow is top-notch, and it feels solid. From the box it came in to the build materials, it screams high-end device. On the tip of the teardrop-shaped device is a clever mechanism for swapping mounts. In the box is an included felt necklace, a magnetic kickstand/clip, and a basic loop so you can add it to your existing necklaces. Ubiquiti Labs informed me that more mounting options are on the way, including a car window and flexible coil mount.How was it to use?With the nitty-gritty out of the way, let’s go over how it was to use. The FrontRow itself is pretty straightforward and painless from a technical perspective. The navigation on the touch screen is snappy, capturing a photo or starting a video with the button was always reliable, and even the onscreen keyboard proved to be usable. Adam Patrick Murray/IDG The home screen uses a carousel-style layout with a customizable wallpaper. Swipe down to reveal some quick settings, swipe left for the camera, and swipe right for the gallery.A combination of vibrations and tones alerts you to what’s happening when you’re wearing the device. For example, pressing the Media Button once starts a countdown sequence for taking a photo, with each count giving a slight vibration. If you’re streaming to Facebook Live and lose connectivity, you hear a slight tone alerting you that the stream has stopped. Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Setting up and initiating a stream is painless no matter which service you go to.Once connected to the phone, navigation inside the app is pretty straightforward, allowing access to the same functionality that’s on the device.

FrontRow is a bold new camera design from Ubiquiti Labs, designed to be a high-end wearable that streams directly to live platforms. As a content producer at PCWorld and Macworld my days are a mix of shooting video, taking photos, and live-streaming. I love experimenting with new ways to capture unique ideas. The promise of a wearable camera has always intrigued me, especially if it’s easy to use and has a camera just as good as my smartphone.After wearing FrontRow for a month, I can see how it’s trying to bring together a mix of features that isn’t offered anywhere else. But it’s doing so at a hefty price. Adam Patrick Murray/IDG The design and build quality of the FrontRow is superb.What is FrontRow?FrontRow is a pendant-style wearable live-streaming camera, which is a mouthful to say. It isn’t an action cam like a GoPro, capturing your sick mountain biking trek. Nor is it like the long-dead Google Glass, mixing augmented reality into your life. It’s actually closer to Snapchat’s Spectacles and your smartphone itself. Featuring front- and rear-facing cameras, a 1.96-inch LTPS touchscreen, and running a stripped-down version of Android, this thing seems to have it all.FrontRow also features a battery rated for 50 hours of standby time and just under 2 hours of recording or live-streaming time (which held true in testing). Stuffed inside is 32GB of non-upgradable storage (only 22GB usable), 2GB of RAM, and a quad-core processor. You recharge the device with an included USB-C cable.FrontRow speaks to your phone via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and interfaces with a fairly robust app. Once set up, it streams to one of three services: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, or Twitter Live (Periscope). FrontRow also takes photos, records video, or makes a time lapse with Story Mode. All of this can

For a lot of users, wearables are not an essential product. They're certainly nice to have, but not as necessary for day to day life as a smartphone or laptop. I've personally used a Pebble, a couple Android Wear watches, and a Vector Watch before giving up on smartwatches altogether a few months ago. Google Glass is another interesting concept, but only focused on the enterprise for now and too expensive to justify for most people.Now Ubiquiti, makers of the excellent Amplifi mesh Wi-Fi router, has announced the FrontRow (via Android Police), a necklace wearable that looks pretty interesting. The FrontRow features a round touch display (there is a flat tire), with two cameras for live streaming events to YouTube Live, Twitter Live and Facebook Live. The battery in the unit is said to be good for about 1 hour and 50 minutes of either recording or live streaming, or 50 hours of standby. When the battery is dead, the device can be charged over a USB Type-C connection with USB-PD fast charging.The main camera on the device is an 8-megapixel, f/2.2 lens that can record up to 2.7K at 30fps and a 151-degree field of view. Most importantly, the main camera features optical image stabilization to combat shaky cam footage. The rear camera features a 5-megapixel, f/2.0 sensor that can record up to 2K at 30 frames per second and an 85-degree field of view. As for audio, the unit has stereo microphones for recording and a mono speaker for playback.The device includes 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, an unspecified quad-core processor, software based on Android, and Bluetooth 4.1 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n/ac for offloading video to a smartphone. The Frontrow is available in both black and rose gold, with the black option available now on Amazon, and the rose gold version coming September 15th. The FrontRow will work with both iOS and Android devices.Curiously missing is support for Instagram and Snapchat, along with any mention of dust and water resistance. The latter would be especially important for a livestreaming wearable like this. I have reached out to the company about these features and will update the post when I hear back.Are you interested in the FrontRow? Let us know down below!See at AmazonGet the latest news from Android Central, your trusted companion in the world of Android

Is a weakness in the lens and shows up in most of the photos. Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Colors are fairly accurate, but nothing special.The results show why. The sensor is paired with a f/2.2 lens touting a superwide field of view (around 148 degrees), and I don’t have much good to say about the quality. Colors are washed-out, the optical image stabilization is only passable, and there’s a hefty amount of chromatic aberration present in most lighting situations. Photos lack any sort of vibrancy or clarity, and have heavy amounts of noise present in anything other than brightly lit scenes. Despite such ho-hum captures, I did enjoy the included time lapse feature, which Ubiquiti Labs calls Story Mode. Videos default to capturing at 1080p but can be recorded up 2.7K to take advantage of the wider field of view. I don’t know why you would, though, because the performance of the lens around the edges is horrible. Oh, and the microphone? Yeah, it’s tinny, weak, and applies very strong compression to the final output. In short, worthless. An example of livestreaming to YouTube. Video quality for live-streaming needs to be great, because once a platform like Facebook Live is done compressing the hell out of it, you can still maintain a decent image. Unfortunately, because the quality coming out of the FrontRow is mediocre at best, compression makes it looks even worse. FrontRow also embeds its logo on any live broadcast. The official line is that the logo helps the community distinguish the superior performance of the FrontRow compared to other devices. This is in bad taste for many reasons and feels like a cheap way of getting the branding out there. In my eyes, if your product is that good, you don’t need to plaster your logo all over