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Garmin launches an easy-to-use GPS smartwatch: The Forerunner 55

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The Forerunner 55 is Garmin’s latest addition to its portfolio of GPS smartwatches and though, it’s designed for people of all skill levels, it is made especially for beginners to get things moving in their personal fitness journeys.

The smartwatch is equipped with comprehensive running modes, with an integrated GPS which tracks the distance, pace, and the location of the users. The Forerunner 55 also features advanced running features for those to up the tempo in their training. This includes:

The Forerunner 55
  • ‘PacePro’ mode in which the smartwatch provides suitable guidance to help users tailor their efforts to a selected course or distance.
  • A finish time estimator which displays the estimated the user would take to complete a specific run distance.
  • Cadence Alerts which lets users know when they stray away from their cadence range.

Additionally, the Forerunner 55 also delivers daily tailored training tips and on-screen guidance from Garmin Coaches for running training plans. A wrist-based heartrate monitor helps in tracking the users’ heartrate at all times. A ‘Body Battery’ energy monitor tracks energy levels and finds the best times for the users to train and to rest. Stress-levels can be tracked too for better insights.

The Forerunner 55 (Aqua)

Women can also track their menstrual cycle or pregnancy-related symptoms, receive exercise and nutritional advice through the Garmin Connect App.

The Forerunner 55 also features other fitness modes for effective tracking. These include virtual running, swimming, Pilates, HIIT, and more. The smartwatch tracks the user’s steps, calories, and more, throughout the day.

For safety and security, the Forerunner 55 allows users to share their location with their emergency contacts.

The Forerunner 55 is designed to be worn all day and it features a 2-week-long battery life, which works for 20 hours when on GPS mode. The all new Forerunner 55 comes in 3 exciting colours; Black, Aqua and Monterra Grey available at the price of Rs. 20,990 on Amazon, Flipkart, Tata CLiQ, Synergizer, and Garmin Brand stores.

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STYX India Launches Neo SmartWatch

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STYX India, one of the latest entrants in the Indian consumer electronics industry, has unveiled the STYX Neo smartwatch with health monitoring. Backed by the latest technologies, the newly launched wearable boasts extended battery life, health monitoring features and available at a highly affordable price point.

Commenting on the launch, Sandeep Sharma CEO of STYX India said, “We are living in an uncertain time and the need for fitness is growing drastically. Wearable devices have become extremely useful for tracking health and fitness. While people download fitness tracking apps on their smartphones but they are not as accurate as they should be. With the launch of STYX Neo smartwatch, we are delighted to come up with a feature-packed wearable watch that offers great benefits to the consumer.”

With the rise of lifestyle disease, people have become health conscious and started incorporating fitness activities into their daily schedule and need constant health monitoring. STYX India’s flagship offering – Neo SmartWatch tracks the health of the consumers with extreme accuracy including body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.

STYX’s Neo Watch features 15 days battery life, body temperature monitor, blood pressure monitor, continuous heart rate monitor, IP68 water resistance, female health tracking, 11 sports modes, sleep monitor and quick release strap.

STYX Neo smartwatch is available in four sophisticated colours — Mystic Rose, Frost Silver, Electric Blue, and Carbon Black and can be purchased from the brand website, Amazon, Flipkart and dealer stores across India. It is originally priced at Rs. 4,999 with a 30% discount on the launch, making it available in the market at Rs. 3,499.

Oppo makes its way into the smartwatch market with the Oppo Watch

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The new Oppo Watch – the square-shape design of which is very similar to that of the iconic Apple Watch, and several other similarly designed smartwatches out there – has been launched with some quality features like an AMOLED display, Oppo’s own Dual-Chip Endurance System and more.

The Oppo Watch is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 which uses a ‘twin endurance mode-powered’. Oppo claims that the 430 mAh battery can be fully charged in just 75 minutes through the Watch VOOC Flash Charging technology. More so, the Oppo Watch is equipped with a dual-curved flexible 1.91” AMOLED screen, which offers a 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut.

When it comes to the functionality, Oppo Watch works in tandem with Google Fit and runs on Google’s Wear OS.  The Oppo Watch does offer fitness and heart rate tracking features, in addition to monitoring sleep quality, and being water resistant to up to 50 meters. It also gives users ‘Get Up’ reminders and provides information on breathing.

Furthermore, Wear OS by Google also enables users to access Google’s Voice Assistant which is integrated with the Oppo Watch, which can run for up to 36 hours on ‘smart mode’ and up to 21 days on ‘power save mode’. The Oppo Watch also has an in-built GPS and is bolstered with a myriad of sensors like Ambient Light sensor, Tri-axial acceleration sensor and gyroscope, geomagnetic sensor, optical heart sensor, and the biometric sensor.

The Oppo Watch offers several watch faces and it will also creatively build a watch face based on any image made by the users. Features like ‘quick reply’, mobile payment, message notifications, online music, and schedule management play an integral role in making this a smartwatch worth its price.

The Oppo Watch comes in 2 variants – the 41mm dial and the 46mm, the former being only 3atm water resistant and offering a 300mAh battery life. The latter costs Rs. 19,990 and the former costs Rs. 14,990. The Oppo Watch is available on Amazon and Flipkart.

TicWatch Pro 2020 is Mobvoi’s new flagship smartwatch

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Apart from being aesthetically pleasing and fashionable, Google-backed Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro 2020 packs in several features also offered by some of the best smartwatches we know of. The TicWatch range of smartwatches have all been feature-rich, so what’s new in the TicWatch Pro 2020, you may ask? Essentially, the TicWatch Pro 2020 offers some crucial hardware upgrades which boosts its performance up a notch. These upgrades include a larger RAM, a more-accurate GPS, and more.

Like its predecessor – the TicWatch Pro, the TicWatch Pro 2020 features the unique ‘Layered Display’ technology which includes a AMOLED and a Super Twisted Nematic LCD screen – which enables readability even on the brightest day – working in tandem. Starting with some of the most important upgrades, the TicWatch Pro 2020 offers double the memory with 1GB of RAM and upgraded GPS and health trackers, which enables the fitness data-tracking apps and the sleep and heart-rate tracking-features be more efficient.

Additionally, the TicWatch Pro 2020’s screen – which offers a resolution of 400 x 400 pixels – is protected through the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and it also offers MIL-STD-810G military standard durability and is IP68-rated, which means it can withstand extreme temperatures, dust, shock, and water. Mobvoi’s flagship smartwatch is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100 and also features a battery-life extending up to 30 days on ‘Essential Mode’, and 2 days on ‘Smart Mode’, through a 415mAh battery.

Not only can the user manage notifications – some, like ‘Quick Replies’, limited to Android users only – and calls, but impressively, the TicWatch Pro 2020 also has the voice-activated Google Assistant built-in. The smartwatch offers over 1000’s of watch faces and users can also use Google Pay to make hassle-free payments at a multitude of places.

The TicWatch Pro 2020 comes with a plethora of sensors – like Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetic Sensor, PPG Heart Rate sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Low Latency Off-Body Sensor – for better performance.  

The TicWatch Pro 2020 runs on Wear OS crafted by Google and has 6-built in sports modes as well, in addition to enable users track and analyse sleep through the TicSleep App. The TicWatch Pro 2020 is available Shadow Black and Liquid Metal Silver on Amazon for Rs. 23,990.

Huami Amazfit T-Rex is a robust smartwatch for health and wellness enthusiasts

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The rugged and robust Huami Amazfit T-Rex is now available in India and it’s price tag doesn’t put a big dent in one’s account as well. Priced at Rs. 9,999, the T-Rex is compatible with iOS and Android and the smartwatch has a 1.3” AMOLED display offering a 360×360 resolution capable of displaying 16.7 million colours.

The display is also armed with the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and an anti-fingerprint coating. Passing the 12 regulations of military standard quality tests – MIL-STD-810 – does give some assurance on the T-Rex’s durability and robustness. Huami also claims that ‘the T-Rex is built to withstand extreme temperatures as well as damp, salt and any challenging outdoor conditions, surviving for two hours under rapid temperature change from -40 to 70 degrees C.

Smartwatches have become health data-tracking heavyweights and the T-Rex is similar to other Huami Amazfit watches as it features 14 sport modes and a BioTracker PPG optical sensor which helps track performances through monitoring the data such as heart rate and exercise duration statistics of diverse activities. The sensor also monitors the heart rate all-day long and also sends reminders if the user has been inactive for long, or warnings if the heart-rate is abnormal.

The Amazfit T-Rex features an impressive 20-day battery life through a 390mAh battery, if used conservatively and wisely. It has an option where the display can stay on until turned off and also has many watch faces to choose from. It hosts a 28mm Sony GPS chip that works for a period of up to 20 hours straight and a sleep monitoring sensor also tracks the quality of the user’s sleep.

The sweat-absorbent silicone strap is definitely a plus for those who work out regularly. One can choose from over 30 watch faces and the T-Rex can also control the music on one’s phone through Bluetooth v5.0 connectivity. Besides, the Amazfit T-Rex can also perform basic functions like providing notifications for calls, messages, of apps, calendars, and more. It also hosts a ‘Find my phone’ function.

The Huami Amazfit T-Rex is available in 5 different colours: Gun Grey, Khaki, Rock Black, Army Green, and Camo Green, and is on sale on Amazon and Huami Amazfit’s online store, and in stores like Croma and Reliance Digital. For more information, please visit this page.