Wyze is known for its smart home products, most especially its security cameras. Now it has made its entry into the smartwatch market with the Wyze Watch and it offers a lot for a very small price.
The Wyze Watch looks like Amazfit’s Bip line of smartwatches but it comes with an even more affordable price tag. The smartwatch is available in two sizes – a 47mm version with a 1.75-inch screen and a 44mm version with a 1.4-inch screen. The bigger one has a 300mAh battery while the smaller one has a 260mAh battery. Both will provide up to 9 days of battery life.
The screen on both watches is a TFT 16-bit color LCD display with a resolution of 320 x 385 for the 47mm model and 320 x 320 for the 42mm model. They are encased in an aluminum alloy frame attached to black silicone straps. There are several watch faces to choose from with the option to even use your own photo as the wallpaper.
Save for the difference in screen size and of course battery capacity, the features are the same. For $20, yes $20, you get a PPG heart rate sensor and a blood oxygen sensor, sleep monitoring, step counter, and a menstrual health tracker. Wyze doesn’t say the activities the watch can track and it will be disappointing if it is just limited to just step counting.
Because this is a Wyze product, the manufacturer has added support for controlling your connected Wyze smart home products. So you can turn cameras and lights on and off from your wrist and also access your Wyze shortcuts from the watch.
The watch has an IP68 rating and is water-resistant up to 2 meters. It supports app notifications from multiple popular apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail, and Twitter. It also has support for music and video player apps. The product video shows a YouTube icon, so we presume you will be able to control playback from your wrist. Users will also be able to reject phone calls using the watch.
The Wyze Watch is available for pre-order for $20 regardless of the size you choose. You can also purchase extra silicone straps in Cerulean Blue, Blush Pink, and Midnight Black for $3.99 a pair. There are leather straps too and they come in Classic Brown and Forest Green with a price tag of $9.99. The Wyze Watch begins shipping in February 2021.
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