Just days ago we learned that even Swatch has already prepared a smarwatch to launch at the beginning of the year with Bellamy. A smart watch in which the smart thing is passed for what are mobile payments through the NFC connection. For this reason, it has partnered with Visa to ensure that a user, by making a quick turn of the wrist, can pay for anything they are going to buy. I remember this smartwatch because of the great interest that this type of product is being for many companies right now, since by 2020 there will be 650 million smart watches that will be found on the street according to the study launched by a firm associated with the Swiss watch manufacturer.
650 million smarwatches There are many watches, so it is normal that we find new initiatives such as Omate's own, which has been in this for two years bringing wearables. An Omate that brought for the first time, from Kickstarter, to TrueSmart and that was shortly followed by two more bets such as the Omate X, exclusively for the female audience, and more recently, the TrueSmart-i and the TrueSmart +. Now, before the end of this year, Omate is launching another one that incorporates a great feature in what could be called a Smarwatch 3.0 that has Bluetooth connection and 3G connectivity in itself, such as the Omate Rise.
A standalone smartwatch with Android Lollipop
And if we could think that it takes advantage of that novelty that Android Wear has that allows smartwatches that support it to be able to make calls, we are very wrong, since it has to Android 5.1 Lollipop like software that manages to launch all kinds of apps and services.
Omate Rise is the first smartwatch 3.0 It is characterized by having Bluetooth and 3G. Although the LG Watch Urbane second edition already has 4G, because its deployment has been delayed to a component with problems, Omate could be one of the alternatives to get a wearable that is totally independent of the phone. So this problem of the Korean manufacturer with its smarwatch is a perfect fit for this company that little by little is knowing how to find its market to keep pushing hard for the next few years.
Take charge
Omate Rise allows make calls or send SMS messages from the wrist, which is a big step for a wearable of this type. It does not work with Android Wear as we might suppose at first, but it does have Android 5.1 Lollipop, which can open up a wide range of possibilities. So we can forget to pair it or connect it to a WiFi connection to get the most out of this smart watch, we only need a data network connection.
This new Omate smartwatch features a 1,3 inch Innolux screen, 360 x 360 resolution, ARM Cortex-A7 chip clocked at 1.2 Ghz, ARM Mali-400 GPU, 4 GB of internal storage, 512 MB of RAM, Bluetooth 4.1, 3G and a 580 mAh battery.
It also has a microphone, speaker, magnetometer, gyroscope, and a 6-axis accelerometer. A wearable that is waterproof, although you cannot immerse him in it. Apart from Android 5.1 Lollipop has its own custom layer with Omate User Interface 4.0. This interface is under open source and at the moment the project is in IndieGoGo. So for $ 199 you can get one so that when it hits the market it reaches $ 349.
The curious thing about the crowdfunding campaign is that only will be available for 48 hours in which the team is trying to raise $ 30.000. The version that will be sold will be the carbon fiber version on the bezel.
An interesting smartwatch that follows that trend of wearables that continue to arrive from different manufacturers and that each time they make it more difficult for us telling them no. A little battery and surely we will all fall in love with those smartwatches that will reach 650 million units worldwide by 2020, while an Omate Rise to take it better.
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