Finally, there's a smartwatch that looks like a classic watch, one that's not like a bulky computer on your wrist.
Called the Blink and made by Witworks, you can set the watch's face to have a minimalist look, reminiscent of an old Movado watch. But it's made with materials that you'd find in tech-packed watches. Being launched in India, the Blink has a curved Gorilla Glass 3 touch screen, a built-in speaker, an AMOLED display and 1GB of RAM. Plus, it runs on the company's own Android-based Marvin OS.
While it has fewer features than you might get from an Apple Watch, the Blink sports a more attractive and traditional circular watch design, with metal and leather wristbands available. Plus, the battery lasts longer: about two days on a charge, according to Witworks, vs. about 18 hours for the Apple Watch. And, thankfully for Android phone users, the Blink can be paired with Android or iOS phones.
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When paired with your phone, you can get call and text notifications, plus email alerts and calendar reminders. And impressively for such a simple-looking package, you can reply to WhatsApp and Google Hangouts messages and even hail and Uber with it. There's 8 GB of storage for music, too.
Thanks to its 9-axis motion sensor, the Blink tracks steps and how long you've worked out, and it tracks and displays estimates calories you've burned over time.
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At retail, the watch will cost about $188, but if you pre-order on the company's website, you can snag one for less than $38. The first batch of watches should make it to consumers this November, according to the company. The bad news is that sales will be limited to India at first.
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Witworks' Blink Watch is entering a smart watch market with massive and resource-rich competitors, so this watch's sales are likely to be a drop in the bucket compared with those of Apple, Pebble and more. But Witworks sees growth ahead. The company's website it's hiring designers, software developers and PR and sales reps.