ASUS ZenWatch 3 Announced
Following Motorola, Huawei and a bunch of other smartwatch manufacturers, ASUS has built a circular Android Wear device. The Zenwatch 3 has a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with a 400x400 resolution, which works out at 287 pixels per inch (ppi). That's almost identical to the Huawei Watch and a little bit sharper than the larger second-gen Moto 360. The casing is made from stainless steel and will be available in a few different colors: gunmetal (black), silver and rose gold. All three have a gold inlay, which ASUS claims is like "the corona of an annular solar eclipse."
The ZenWatch 3 is just 9.95mm thick and thinner than both the Huawei Watch and Moto 360. It runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor and 512MB of RAM, with 4GB of internal storage. While the 341mAh battery will last you for "up to two days," ASUS is also pushing its "HyperCharge" technology, which will bring you back up to 60 percent in 15 minutes. Charging is handled with a magnetic port and there will also be an "optional battery pack," which sounds like an external battery case that will make the watch larger.
On the software side the ZenWatch is to ship with Android Wear 2.0, Google's biggest update to the platform since its launch. ASUS is, however, offering some custom watch faces for the Zenwatch 3, and hopes you'll make your own with its FaceDesigner app for smartphones. The new smartwatch also has some fitness apps with automatic step-counting that is "95 percent accurate." It can also track a few other basic activities such as running, push-ups and sit-ups.
The Zenwatch 3 will set you back €229 (roughly $255) in Europe -- ASUS is yet to give an official price for the US and there isn't a release date just yet but we will keep you posted!
Via: | The Verge |
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Image Credit: | Android Central |
