Asus introduces ZenWatch 3 with round OLED screen

By admin On Aug 31, 2016

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Asus announces the ZenWatch 3. The new Android Wear watch has a metal frame and a round screen, which uses a 1.39″ OLED panel with a resolution of 400×400 pixels. The soc is the Snapdragon Wear 2100 from Qualcomm.

The screen has a pixel density of 287ppi and is finished with Gorilla Glass 3 from Corning. According to Asus, the frame is about an inch thick and made of stainless steel. According to Asus, several ‘luxury’ bands will be available for the Smartwatch. The watch is water resistant according to the IP67 specification.

Asus uses the Snapdragon Wear 2100-soc in the ZenWatch 3, which Qualcomm announced in February. Details about that soc are not known at the moment, but it would be a variant of the Snapdragon 400, but smaller and more economical. The new soc would be 25 percent more efficient than its predecessor. There is 512MB RAM and 4GB emmc flash storage. The watch communicates with smartphones via Bluetooth and WiFi.

The battery has a capacity of 340mAh and according to Asus, the watch lasts up to two days on a full charge. The smartwatch supports fast charging and the battery can be charged to sixty percent in fifteen minutes. Charging is done via a cable, which is magnetically connected to the watch. There will also be an optional battery pack, which will add another 200mAh to the watch.

There are three physical buttons on the housing. One of the buttons opens the ZenFit app, which tracks wearer activity. A second button is used to adjust the display mode of the watch. The third button can be assigned to a function of choice by the user.

Asus ships the ZenWatch 3 with over fifty different software ‘watch faces’, which can be selected using the ZenWatch Manager app on a smartphone. Many of these watch faces support customizable widgets that can display information, according to Asus. It is also possible to design your own watch faces with the FaceDesigner app for smartphones.

The ZenWatch 3 will be on the market in the fourth quarter of this year, for a suggested retail price of 229 euros.