The LG Watch Sport officially doesn’t support swapping straps, since the antenna lives in the strap. But anything that comes apart can be replaced, as long as you can find the parts. There are two ways to buy a strap for the LG Watch Sport. One is to order from a Korean site, which comes to $58. https://www.tntkstore.com/product-page/lg-watch-sports-w281-band-international-edition-band-gray-color The other is to pick up a dead unit on Taobao. I went with the latter, because it’s cheap!

I’d been using the Moto 360 2nd, but it had been nearly two years, so I figured it was time for a change. Then the LG Watch Sports came out, and I saw you couldn’t swap the strap, so I didn’t buy it. Half a year went by and there was still nothing I liked. I figured, fine, if I can’t change the strap, then I just won’t change it… When I went to order the LG Watch Sports on Google Play, the titanium version was out of stock, of course. Then one night I refreshed out of boredom and there it was. Ordered it right away, and it turned out I’d picked the wrong payment method and paid $16 extra in shipping, even though the Google Play Store page said free shipping. I was worried it’d sell out so I didn’t look closely. The next day I saw the extra charge and asked Google for a refund. They said no… So I said, fine, I’ll return it and order again. They said it had been more than two hours, so no returns… I’ve got a few choice words for them that I’ll keep to myself. So I chalked it up as a lesson learned. The surprise was that when it arrived via a forwarding service, there was no customs duty… I looked, and the customs declaration listed the thing as an “electronic watch.” Clever. I wonder if next time I forward a phone they could write “cordless telephone”…

I’ve been using the Moto 360 for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve swapped the strap. The stock one isn’t bad, supposedly genuine leather, but I wanted to mess with it anyway, and the matching band wasn’t expensive. The Moto 360 theoretically supports most mainstream watch straps, though I don’t know those markets — I’d never worn a watch before the Moto 360.