Category: Smartwatch

Huawei has announced the official launch of the Watch GT Cyber, a smartwatch that has leaked several times in the last few months. Scheduled to launch on November 2 with the Pocket S, the Watch GT Cyber may be a Chinese exclusive initially. For reference, Huawei’s next hardware event commences at 19:00 CST, or 11:00 UTC. Presumably, Huawei will unveil more than just the Pocket S and Watch GT Cyber though, as is often the case during its launch events.

Currently, Huawei has not highlighted any Watch GT Cyber-specific features. Still, it has showcased a futuristic-looking design, which it teases as being ‘born different’. Like many Huawei smartwatches, the Watch GT Cyber has a round display and a digital crown. However, it seems that the smartwatch has comparatively thin bezels that extend to the chassis’ outer edge.

Additionally, Huawei’s teaser implies that the Watch GT Cyber has a removable display or an interchangeable tachymeter, which would be unusual. In saying that, we would recommend reserving judgement on this potential feature until Huawei shares more teasers. If the Watch GT Runner is anything to go by, Huawei will offer the Watch GT Cyber with at least one unique feature distinguishing it from the rest of the current Watch GT series.

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Been longing for the convenience of an Apple Watch, but scared away by the price tag? Though it may not feel like it sometimes, other smartwatches exist…and can offer all the same perks and handy features as their more expensive counterparts.

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Google and Fitbit are reportedly working on a smartwatch for kids that will feature cellular support and GPS connectivity.

That’s according to the folks at Business Insider, at least, who indicate work has already begun on something internally known as ‘Project Eleven’. 

The report notes that the wearable will be “designed to help older kids form healthy relationships with their phones and social media,” and is likely to include safety features for parents supported by location tracking and cellular functions. 

Interestingly, it appears the device is currently being prototyped without a screen, with an idea also floating internally that a subscription service could be set up to send users new bands each month. 

Supposedly, the device’s other key objective would be to encourage exercise and activity, which would follow other Fitbit kids trackers we’ve seen, like the Fitbit Ace 3.

That tracker was released in March 2021, featuring a touchscreen, sleep tracking a waterproof design, so a refresher at some point in the near future would appear credible. 

However, given the more advanced role Google is now playing in Fitbit’s future, the report indicates there may actually still be a long way to go before release. Project Eleven – a Stranger Things reference, apparently – is currently penciled in for a 2024 launch. 

Another nugget of information is that the team behind the potential smartwatch for kids is run by a former executive of Google Photos, Anil Sabharwal, who is now the VP of special projects and oversees the Fitbit team in Australia. 

Google’s influence also appeared to force change on a previous idea for a kid-focused Fitbit smartwatch, too – one that was also designed to fit the wrists of older adults and featured a built-in camera.

However, it has since been killed after facing “numerous technical challenges and logistical issues,” according to Business Insider. With that device now in the rearview mirror, the sum of Project Eleven appears to be the next device to wait for, but time will tell.

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Smartwatches are incredibly useful, but the big brand-name ones can also be super expensive. If you don’t want to shell out for something like an Apple Watch, that doesn’t mean you have to settle for something worse. The Chronowatch C-Max Call Time Smartwatch has 14 features packed into one sleek, modern package, and we’ve got it for 75% off during our Overstock sale. No coupon code needed, but the sale ends on October 31st at 11:59 PM.

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The C-Max Smartwatch packs a lot of functionality into a beautiful design. It’s got the essential smartwatch functions you may have grown to expect. You can answer and make calls and get messages and call alerts. Check the weather or control your music. Of course, you can also check the time, set alarms, and use the stopwatch.

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It also has multi-sport fitness tracking along with health and sleep monitoring. Keep an eye on your daily steps while getting estimates for calories burned and your heart rate. It’s not a medical device, so it won’t beat an actual heart monitor, but if you just want to keep an eye on your body, this could be a big help.

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US-based Garmin said that its global team is monitoring the local production-linked incentive scheme and will start its own manufacturing in the country once it has expanded its operations in the country.

“The moment we have expanded and are represented everywhere in the country…the card is open for us…we’re totally open to that concept,” Yesudas Pillai, country head of Garmin India told ET. Pillai, who has joined Garmin from Harman International, will also oversee the company’s expansion in the country.

The company is also bullish on the country’s $300 and above price category for smartwatches and expects India to be among top three markets in the APAC region in the next 3-5 years.

“We want to grow exponentially in India and keep the momentum. We have seen 32% YoY growth till Q3 2022,” Sky Chen, Regional Director, South-East Asia & India said during an interaction. “India is positioned at number five for the Asia APAC region. So based on population and over the last two years as wearable growth booming in India, we foresee in the coming five years we want to become the top three for APAC region.”

To drive sales, the company aims to expand its presence across various cities by opening brand stores which will also double up as a service collection point by the end of 2023. It currently has brand stores in Delhi NCR, Bangalore and Pune. It will also partner with large-format stores (LFRs) and watch retailers to expand presence in the market.

“In India, people have money to spend who want quality smartwatch with accurate tracking. We want to tap the aspiration in India. Unlike our competition, we have more product offerings across price segments,” Chen added.

On competition from Apple in the smartwatch segment, Chen said that it will further grow the market and increase awareness about high-quality smartwatches in the market.

Garmin also wants to expand its presence in India’s enterprise market. “In fact, we recently closed a deal with the Indian Air Force for one of the bases, which is working with the government. We want to work with more B2B segments…we are already present in the healthcare and pharma space,” Pillai said.

Pillai said that Garmin is witnessing growth in the corporate gifting segment along with the pharma segment. “…both put together we are witnessing some good growth over there.”

In a horrifying incident from Washington, USA, a woman was buried alive by her husband in the woods. Before the burial, she was able to contact 911 with her smartwatch which informed the authorities of something being wrong.

The Washington 911 department received a call from a terrified woman pleading for help but all they could hear was a muffled voice. The woman was trying to speak but it felt as if her mouth was tied and she could not speak but only make noises. The department tracked down the location and reached her house but was unaware of what the situation was. The seven minutes the long call was allegedly from Young An, a 42-years-old woman who was tied up and abducted by her estranged husband to kill her.

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Washington Woman Buried Alive

53-years-old Chae An reportedly tied her wife Young An and tapped her mouth in the bedroom. When he left for a little while, the wife made a successful attempt of calling 911 with her Apple watch. However, because of her muffled voice, the authorities could not be informed about the exact situation. When the husband came back, she broke her watch, dragged her to the garage and threw her in his minivan. He drove past the police car that arrived in the neighbourhood after getting the call from Young An but neither they knew the identity of the person nor the case and weren’t able to detect him.

Chae An took Young An to a wooded location where he stabbed her chest and buried her alive. An struggled to not suffocate in the pit she was buried in. Somehow, she managed to free herself from the duct after several hours of struggle and headed to find a nearby shelter. She reached a house in Lacey which is about 60 miles southwest of Seattle and banged the door for help. The sheriff’s deputy arrived and the woman told them the entire incident that happened to her.

Chae An was arrested and found guilty of first-degree domestic violence assault, first-degree domestic violence kidnapping and first-degree murder. He reportedly tried to kill his wife because of a dispute over property and finances. The audio clip of Young An’s 911 call is going viral and people are finding it shocking how she survived in a grave for that long.

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I always get super excited when I get to test premium smartwatches such as the Montblanc Summit 3. Call me shallow, but the thought of wearing watches with a 4-digit price tag is exhilarating. And indeed, this Montblanc Summit 3 review is a little bit like a love letter to premium watch craftsmanship; and why, even in 2022, we need premium smartwatches like this one.

Maybe that’s why I felt a bit cheated when I reviewed the Summit Lite a couple of years ago (here’s my Montblanc Summit Lite review), as it tried to water down this high-end experience. Worst still, that watch used Google’s Wear OS, which is infamously laggy and terrible. Truth be told, newer iterations of the wearable operating system are slightly more tolerable, as the Montblanc Summit 3 exemplifies.

Is the Montblanc Summit 3 the best smartwatch money can buy? Is it better than the best Garmin watches in the same category, such as the Garmin Epix Gen 2? Why would anyone buy the Montblanc Summit 3 over an Apple Watch Ultra? Let’s discuss this.

Montblanc Summit 3 review – Price and availability

The Montblanc Summit 3 was announced in July 2022 and is available to buy now directly from Montblanc US (opens in new tab), Montblanc UK (opens in new tab) and Montblanc AU (opens in new tab) for a recommended retail price of $1,290./£1,105/AU$2,030. Currently, it’s available in three standard versions, including Titanium, Black Titanium, and Bicolor Titanium.

There is also a Naruto Edition (opens in new tab) of the Summit 3, which is more expensive and also completely random, with special engravings of Naruto‘s signature weapons on the watch case and a leather strap with embossings of the Konohagakure symbol. For all those Naruto fans out there who like high-end smartwatches.

Montblanc Summit 3 – Build quality

The Montblanc Summit 3 has a 42 mm grey titanium case with stainless steel bezel, a rotating crown and pushers. The 1.28″ AMOLED display has a resolution of 416 x 416 pixels and is protected by an anti-scratch Sapphire Glass lens. The engraved steel case back incorporates the heart rate sensor, charging pins, and resin-fibreglass composite covering the sensor.

The watch with two strap options: a black calf leather strap and a blue rubber sports strap, both with a pin buckle made of stainless steel. The Summit 3 arrived with the black leather strap attached to the case, which I promptly changed to the blue rubber option as leather straps are terrible for any sports activity. Thankfully, the blue strap doesn’t cheapen the watch one bit.

As for water resistance, the Montblanc Summit 3 is rated at 50 metres / 5 ATM bar. From a sensor point of view, it has an optical heart rate sensor, barometer, accelerometer, gyroscope, and ambient light sensor. No altimeter or temperature sensor, however. At least it was storage (8 GB) to store apps on the watch.

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Montblanc Summit 3 – Features

I wasn’t expecting a mind-blowing performance from the Montblanc Summit 3, a Wear OS watch, despite the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ processor, after my fiasco with the Summit Lite. Some smartwatches in the past, such as the Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra, made the operating system work, but Wear OS still isn’t my favourite, to say the least.

Indeed, the Montblanc Summit 3 can be laggy, especially after waking the watch from standby mode. Loading time was also longer when interacting with the screen using the touchscreen, something to be expected from a Wear OS watch. Full disclosure, once the watch fully wakes up from standby mode, the lag isn’t unbearable; there is a slight delay here and there, but nothing too terrible.

Like most smartwatches these days, the Montblanc Summit 3 can track heart rate, monitor sleep, stress, workouts and more – it can even estimate VO2 max! I found the sleep tracking accurate; maybe not as good as the Fitbit Sense 2, but definitely good enough for most people. Better still, you can see details about your sleep on the watch, and not just in the app.

Stress tracking on the Montblanc Summit 3 works in mysterious ways. I couldn’t tell whether it was based on data from the sensor, workout loads, calories burned or something else. Most of the time, the watch said I was recovering, which I assume means that I wasn’t working out too hard, and my sleep was well. 

Thanks to the watch running Wear OS, the Montblanc Summit 3 offers a slew of additional features. These include a digital compass, Calm meditations, Hole18 gold maps, and more. I haven’t given these a thorough enough try, so I can’t tell how useful they are, but they are available on the watch.

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Montblanc Summit 3 – Battery life

Initially, I was massively disappointed with the battery life of the Montblanc Summit 3. I couldn’t find any info about the official battery life of the watch, but with the always-on screen active, it barely lasts a day. Learning from the mistakes of the Apple Watch and Pixel Watch, Montblanc should know that even a day-long battery isn’t enough in 2022, especially from a watch that is meant to be worn in bed.

‘When watches like the Sense 2 mentioned above can have a 6-day long battery life, and the full AMOLED Huawei Watch GT 3 lasts nearly two weeks on a full charge, how come the Montblanc Summit 3 can barely last a day? After some tinkering, I found a solution, which might not please everyone, but it helped me. On the watch, there is a ‘Theatre mode’, which disables the screen unless you press the buttons (normal sleep mode only dims the screen).

With this mode on, I managed to get nearly three days of battery out of the Montblanc Summit 3. Granted, the screen wasn’t on most of the time, but the sensors were doing their bit, which is good enough for me, although I appreciate some people will want to see something on the screen when they flick their wrist. They’ll have to change the battery more often.

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Montblanc Summit 3 – Sports tracking and accuracy

The Montblanc Summit 3 isn’t a running watch or a multisport watch. Yes, it’s a smartwatch that can track various sports activities, so technically, it is a multisport watch. However, the way it tracks workouts closely resembles how fitness trackers do the same job.

Although the Montblanc Summit 3 tracks runs and cycles, it doesn’t really do in a performance-wearable sense. It’ll log some stats, but the accuracy of these is questionable. It won’t help you improve form either; the Summit 3 is more of a reactive fitness tracker than a proactive performance watch.

Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would buy the Montblanc Summit 3 instead of the Garmin Forerunner 955 for running training. No one should trade in their Polar Pacer Pro to monitor recovery with the Summit 3 instead.

The Montblanc Summit 3 is meant to add some health and fitness tracking capabilities to your premium smartwatch; nothing less, nothing more. Sure, it can’t take on the health-tracking capabilities of the Garmin Venu 2, and it can’t measure ECG like the Withings Scanwatch. But neither of those will look as classy on your wrist as the Montblanc Summit 3.

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Montblanc Summit 3 – Verdict

The Montblanc Summit 3 isn’t without contradictions. It’s a premium watch through and through; even the box it comes in is one the prettiest wearable container I’ve seen in, like, forever. It’s built with premium materials like titanium, stainless steel, sapphire glass, etc. (I appreciate that stainless steel isn’t the poshest material, but in this context, it adds to the watch’s overall premium feel).

What lets down the Summit 3 is the Wear OS operating system and its battery life. The user interface does its best to mitigate the frustration that inevitably arises from using a Wear OS device. Still, I can’t help but feel that no matter what watch companies do, Wear OS will never work properly.

It’s too energy intense, looks samey-samey on all watches, and is way too laggy, even on watches with decent processors. I appreciate it’s more effort to develop and design a proprietary operating system, but it’s far from impossible. Montblanc should at least give it a try; that would elevate the user experience of its watches instantly.

That said, testing the Montblanc Summit 3 wasn’t a terrible experience – on the contrary. By the end of the testing period, I was almost sad I had to forfeit my Summit 3, even though I can’t imagine using it for anything else but fitness tracking. Buy the Montblanc Summit 3 if you need a premium smartwatch that’s not as bulky as Garmin’s top-end watches, not as quirky as Fitbit’s wearables and classier than an Apple Watch.

Montblanc Summit 3 – Also consider

The Apple Watch Ultra is the best Apple watch – apparently. It has a large AMOLED display and tough casing that enables the watch to be used for diving. It has the best battery life of an Apple watch, which still isn’t remotely close enough to any multisport watch on the market. It looks pretty, though, not to mention it’s cheaper than the Summit 3.

The Withing Scanwatch Horizon can be yours for less than half the price of the Montblanc Summit 3. This premium hybrid smartwatch has a 30-day battery life, an integrated altimeter, smart notifications, Bluetooth connectivity, different sports modes, and ECG and SpO2 sensors. Not bad.

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