In the last issue, we took you to make an inventory of the mainstream smart bracelets on the market. The smart bracelet, which integrates exercise recording, sleep monitoring and call reminder, is very popular with consumers, but its monotonous appearance and weak expansibility are destined to be used by those who love sports or are keen on monitoring body status for a long time. The watches that many people habitually wear on a daily basis have larger screens, more room to play, and a larger base of users. Therefore, smart watches have a broader development space than bracelets. Today, let's take stock of the popular smart watches.
Apple
Apple Watch
Apple Watch, by far the biggest star in the field of smart wear, had 957000 bookings in the United States on the first day of its release. Compared with the 720000 sales of Android smart watches in the whole year, Apple has taken the first step of success. Apple offers Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport, and Apple Watch Edition in three series, with 38mm and 42mm sizes and multiple colors for consumers to choose from, with prices ranging from 2588 to 126800. Although it is produced by Apple, the Apple Watch is not perfect. It also has problems such as the program running is not smooth enough, and the endurance is poor. But with Apple's push of Watch OS 2, Apple has brought landscape, navigation, independent wifi and independent applications to Apple Watch and opened a number of hardware call permissions, including the Taptic Engine Digital Crown、 Gyroscope, heart rate sensor, microphone, etc. Watch OS 2 has largely solved the experience problem of Apple Watch, but there is still a long way to go before intelligent wearable devices become more practical.
Moto
Moto 360
A representation of a round dial. Under the general trend that most smart watches choose the square design, MOTO launched a round design similar to the traditional watch. Its exquisite shape and good workmanship immediately attracted many people's attention. However, under the perfect appearance, Moto 360 has a heart of "falling behind". It uses Texas Instruments OMAP 3 processor, which is also the processor on the Moto Droid X released in 2010. In addition, the LCD screen, which is not suitable for the display characteristics of smart watches, is not ideal.
Moto 360 Gen 2
Not long ago, Moto launched the Moto 360 2. As the smartwatch with the highest appearance, the Moto 360 2 has not changed much in appearance. Moto 360 Generation 2 provides dials of two sizes. To prevent accidental contact, Moto 360 Generation 2 adjusts the crown position to the upper right position. In addition to the humanized design to prevent accidental touch, Moto also replaced the back of the watch with glass material, making it more comfortable to wear. Of course, the biggest improvement of Moto 360 Generation 2 is the Snapdragon 400, which finally replaced the old OMAP 3 with a modern processor.
LG
LG Watch Urban (left)/LG G Watch R (right)
The first product of Android watch camp, G Watch, is to a large extent a trial work of LG in order to preempt the market. The G Watch R/Catch Urban launched four months later is a truly mature and rational product. Unlike the first generation of products, G Watch R and Urbane use round dials, which are closer to the appearance of conventional watches. Although the volume is slightly larger than Moto 360, LG has achieved a "perfect" round dial (Moto 360 has a black edge at the bottom). Compared with most of the products on the market that are charged once a day or even twice a day, its two-day life is much more secure.
LG Watch Urbane LTE
Unlike the standard version of Urbane, LTE does not belong to the Android Wear camp. It uses the smart wearable system developed by LG based on WebOS, but unfortunately LTE only supports Android phones. From the name of Urbane LTE, it can be seen that this is a mobile phone that supports LTE 4G network. It can work together with the mobile phone or make calls independently. In order to solve the problem of standby power consumption of LTE, Urbane LTE is equipped with a battery up to 700mAh, which is also the smartwatch with the largest battery capacity by far.
Urbane 2
The popularity of G Watch R and Watch Urbane has helped LG build confidence in smart watches. Now LG has brought us the second generation of Watch Urbane. This Android Wear device that supports LTE band can run independently from mobile phones. Compared with the previous generation of products, the Watch Urban 2 has been greatly improved. It uses a 1.38 inch P-OLED display with resolution up to 480 × 480, and its PPI is up to 348. It is one of the smartwatches with the highest resolution at present.
Pebble
Pebble Watch
Pebble is a successful crowdfunding product on Kickstart. The first generation of product adopts the design of plastic body, and has a variety of color shells for users to choose from. Unlike many other smart watch manufacturers' products, Pebble uses black and white ink screen as the display material of the smart watch, which means that Pebble does not need to light the screen like other watches using OLED screen when viewing time, and can also have a very clear display effect in the sun. Pebble's biggest advantage lies in its own system's good compatibility. Whether iOS or Android, it can work well with Pebble, and can provide notifications and reminders for incoming calls, SMS messages and various applications.
Pebble Time
Pebble Time uses a color ink screen, which has a better display effect. Its compact body and good wearing experience make Pebble free from its huge and simple image.
Pebble Time Steel
Time Steel is a small upgrade of Time. It uses a more refined metal body and provides leather and metal watchbands. The whole machine is more textured than the standard Time. The low power consumption of the ink screen has enabled Time to have a good endurance performance, while Time Steel has taken it to the next level, lasting up to ten days. Pebble Time Steel is undoubtedly one of the best smart watches at present.
Pebble Time Round
After Moto 360 and LG G Watch R became so popular, Pebble also realized that the round dial was more in line with the public's aesthetic view of watches, so he launched his own round dial product in the middle of this year. The watch uses a 38.5mm dial, with a thickness of 7.5mm and a weight of 28-32g. It has the smallest exquisite figure among smart watches. Although Time Round, like other Pebble products, uses E-paper color ink screen, its battery capacity is reduced due to its reduced size, and its life is only two days.
Samsung
Samsung Gear Live
Samsung's strategy in the field of smart watches is slightly different from that of other manufacturers. Samsung has been trying to get rid of its dependence on Google. Now there is only one Android Wear operating system, Gear Live, and other models all use the Tizen system. At the same time, it announced early that the watch will become the control center of its smart home platform, SmartThings, which shows its ambition.
Samsung Gear 2
Gear 2 is Samsung's second smart watch product. The watch uses the Tizen system and no longer uses the Android Wear operating system. Samsung has also opened development tools for developers, but the niche system is doomed to not have many applications for users to download. Samsung's vacillating attitude towards smart watches is the biggest factor hindering its development. The biggest feature of Gear 2 is that a 2 megapixel camera is installed on the side of the dial, which can provide a simple daily photographing function.
Samsung Gear S2
The Gear S2 is the latest model of Samsung smart watch, with two sizes of 42mm and 50mm, and three watchbands made of rubber, leather and stainless steel. Unlike other Samsung smart watch products, S2 has a very high appearance. It is not only Samsung's best looking smart watch, but also the shape of S2 is still excellent in the trend of smart watches. Although we still use the Tizen system, Samsung has made a lot of improvements, and the Gear S2 has excellent performance in interactive operation. In addition to the touch screen, S2 can also be operated by rotating the bezel. This is the first time such an operation mode has appeared on a smart watch. Compared with touch, S2 can be operated more accurately and is very practical.
Huawei
Huawei Watch
When major manufacturers compete in the field of smart watches, Huawei also launched the Huawei Watch. Probably because Moto360 is very popular, Huawei has also adopted the design of a round dial. The body part is made of titanium steel, and the overall texture is excellent. Huawei Watch uses a 1.4 inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 400 × 400, and the display effect is excellent. The screen surface is also made of sapphire glass, so users no longer have to worry about scratching the dial.
ASUS
Asus ZenWatch Generation 2
ZenWatch 2 is the second generation smart watch launched by Asustek. It uses the Android Wear system and has similar functions to other Android watches. ZenWahch Generation 2 has two sizes of 1.63 "and 1.45" and a variety of colors for users to choose from. It also provides watchbands of different materials. Today's smart watches generally use the Android Wear operating system and similar hardware. There is little difference between brands. Asustek improves ease of use by building its own app, with 39 built-in apps.
Sony
Sony SmartWatch 3
Although the mobile phone business lost money year after year, this did not prevent Sony from launching smart watches. The SmartWatch 3 has a square design and is available in a variety of colors and straps, including metal straps. Unlike most similar products that use OLED screens, the watch uses a 1.6 inch semi transparent LCD screen. Users who have used earlier BlackBerry models, such as 7290, will have a better understanding of the characteristics of the semi transparent screen. Turning off the backlight in the sun can still achieve a very clear display effect. Sony's design is very practical.
Fitbit
Fitbit Surge
As the largest market share of wearable smart devices, Fitbit certainly refuses to give up this market, and Surge is their latest masterpiece. Unlike Flex and Charge, Surge is an unmistakable smart watch that continues the consistent style of Fitbit in appearance, with a rubber strap and a square dial design. As a sports watch, its appearance is good, but as a smart watch, its appearance design is obviously too conservative. Despite its appearance, Surge, as a major sports record watch, is obviously very powerful. It has built-in three-axis accelerometer, three-axis gyroscope and digital compass, which can track the steps, distance, heat consumption, altitude, etc. of the wearer.
Withings
Withings Activite
Withings Activity is the most special one among these smart watches. Unlike other products, which use the screen as the display medium, Withings Activity is a combination of traditional mobile phones and smart watches, and uses a pointer as the display mode of "target movement". On the whole, it has the charm of traditional watches. Users no longer need to worry about looking like a "digital watch". Without doubt, Things Activity is the most elegant smart watch.
Taghaoya
Taghaoya Connected
what? Do you think Apple Watch is the most luxurious smart watch in the world? Let's take a look at Connected, a smart watch launched by the famous Swiss watch manufacturer Tagh Hoya. As the lowest priced watch of Hoya, Connected sells for only $1500 (about 9545 yuan). Do you think it's very cheap? Eh, the author suddenly forgot that there is a luxury 126800 customized version of the Apple Watch. All right, you win.
Then our final selection result is:
