Wyze announces $ 20 smartwatch

Wyze, a manufacturer best known for its consumer security cameras, is announcing a smartwatch. The Wyze Watch is available in variants of 47mm and 44mm and includes a heart rate monitor and blood oxygen meter.

Wyze Watch 47mm

Wyze lets customers pre-order the smartwatch on its website. It states that this is a preorder that will be delivered in February. The largest version of the aluminum watch has a 1.75 “LCD with a resolution of 320×385 pixels and a 300mAh battery, which would give a battery life of nine days in ‘normal use’. The weight is 46.6 grams. .

The smaller version has a 1.4 “LCD with a resolution of 320×320 pixels, a 260mAh battery and a weight of 40 grams. The watches are waterproof with an IP68 rating and equipped with a heart rate sensor, blood oxygen meter and acceleration sensor. can measure a value up to once every five minutes, according to the Wyze website.

There is integration with Google Fit and Apple Health and the watches can display notifications from smartphones on the screen. It is not known which operating system is running on the watches themselves. Whether Wyze will also release the watch in the Netherlands and Belgium is not yet known.