Verizon’s new youngsters’ smartwatch has a digital camera to let youngsters video name their mother and father | Engadget

Verizon has introduced the most recent mannequin in its youngsters’ line of cellular-connected smartwatches. The Gizmo Watch 3 is a $150 kids’s wearable that provides them fundamental sensible options whereas permitting their mother and father or caregivers to maintain tabs on their location.

The latest Verizon look ahead to tikes continues the corporate’s aim of “providing a safe smartwatch experience for children that aren’t quite ready for a smartphone.” The new model has a front-facing digital camera, permitting kids to take pictures, make video calls and file messages with accredited contacts. (Although smartwatch cameras can sound privateness alarms, I see the worth for kids who don’t have already got a smartphone digital camera.) The new mannequin additionally lets mother and father add extra secure zones, designated areas that the kids can’t go away with out the watch notifying their mother and father. The new mannequin additionally doubles the variety of trusted contacts mother and father can arrange — from 10 to twenty.

The Gizmo Watch 3 will get a brand new processor within the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform. Verizon says the chip helps it add 80 p.c extra discuss time and 20 p.c extra standby time than its predecessor. It additionally contains Bluetooth for the primary time so that children can pair the wearable with wi-fi earbuds or headphones. Additionally, it has new watch faces (together with ones that change with the seasons and time of day) and three new video games: Tic Tac Toe, Gizmo Says and Puzzle.

The Gizmo Watch 3 might be accessible by means of Verizon on Thursday in Blue Clay and Mint colours. Of course, in case you don’t wish to pay the total $150 upfront, the provider will let certified clients pay it off over 36 months. For a restricted time, it’s additionally working a deal the place shopping for one will get you $100 off a second.