Samsung might lastly have some rivalry within the Android-compatible wearables division—although it’s fairly straightforward at this level because the Galaxy Watch 4 is among the few smartwatches value shopping for. The competitors comes from an unlikely model.

Remember the Moto 360? No, not the Motorola-made smartwatch. I imply this Moto 360, which was a Wear OS smartwatch made by eBuyNow, an organization that has described itself as “the most ubiquitous consumer electronics vertical you’ve never heard of.” Under CE Brands, the corporate has introduced a brand new smartwatch, the Moto Watch 100. And though it’s suitable with Android, it isn’t a Wear OS gadget.

The $100 Moto Watch 100 appears to be a budget-friendly different for folk who desire a smartwatch with out spending lots of of {dollars}. The gadget has a 42mm aluminum case and a 20mm quick-release band, which makes it straightforward so as to add a pop of colour to the in any other case bland watch chassis proven within the press photos. It has a 1.3-inch round LCD show and provides a couple of important health-tracking options, together with coronary heart fee and blood oxygen degree monitoring, which have develop into commonplace on the newest smartwatches. The Moto Watch 100 can be splash-proof, sweat-proof, and constructed to face up to 50m of atmospheric stress. It provides water resistance of as much as 5ATM.

Curiously, not like its predecessors, the Moto Watch 100 doesn’t run Google and Samsung’s new model of Wear OS, and even Google’s outdated model of Wear OS. Instead, it runs one thing referred to as Moto Watch OS, which seems to rely wholly on a cell app to trace your motion and serve notifications. The screenshots within the official listing present a companion Android app, although there’s an iOS app launching in December.

Perhaps Moto Watch OS is what helps the watch supply such unimaginable battery life, because the press release claims. The Moto Watch 100 guarantees as much as two weeks of full-time battery use from one 60-minute cost on its 355 mAh battery.

A majority of the Moto Watch 100’s specs got here out lower than a day in the past at 91Mobiles, following previous reports that there have been more likely to be extra Moto Watch releases on the horizon. Now that it’s formally out there to preorder, it’ll be fascinating to see if the Moto Watch 100 resonates with consumers. Google is within the strategy of overhauling its wearables software program with Samsung on board, but few watches really run the brand new Wear OS. At this level, an affordable cross-platform watch with some stable well being fundamentals is perhaps all that most individuals need.