Well we are all aware of smartphones but Smartphone Watch or Smartwatch is one of the latest gadgets available within a category of Technology also referred to as “wearable techâ€. The beauty of Smartwatch is all the basic stuff that you normally do using your smartphone is now being outsourced at your hand.  These includes activities such as checking email, push notifications by applications, check-ins and other map related applications such as WAZE app (as of latest version of pebble). Since this is the general article we will only discuss briefly about each and every brand available in Dubai and across emirates for Smartphone Watch / Smartwatch.
Features:
- Most of the watches comes equipped with GPS this making the tracking related activities much easier as well as lots of new devices such as GPS navigation and detectors offer apps dedicated for smartwatch
- Most of them run on Andriod having the Linux kernel
- Users can receive and reject calls
- Users can also view SMS and view calendar entries inputted either on the device as well as on paired smartphone
Smartwatch can be integrated with the following brands (list updated as of 2014)
- Android Galaxy S series phones and other latest series smartphones
- Sony latest smartphones
- Apple iphone 5.X onwards
- Motorala new razor cellphones
Some of the popular brands available (most of them are online stores such as aido.com and souq.com) are as follows
- Sony Smartwatch
- Qualcomm Toq
- Pebble Watch
- Pebble Steel
- COOKOO Watch
- WEDA Band (aka WEDA watch)
- Seiko’s Rupter
- MegaWatch
- Samasung Galaxy Gear 2
- Z1 Andriod Smartwatch
- Hyundai MBÂ 910
- XTouch Wave SmartWatch
- ZPAX S5 Android
Prices for Smartwatches in Dubai and UAE:
Smasung Galaxy gear price in UAE: 1000 AED (online) and approx. 1200 AED on physical retail outlets
ZGPAX S5 cost in dubai : 600 AED
Pebble SmartWatch price in Dubai / UAE:Â 550 AED to 700 AED (only available on souq.com as of March 2014)
Sony Smartwatch MN2: approx. 400 AED
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