A
hybrid smartwatch is a type of watch that combines traditional design with smart features. It looks like a regular watch but has limited smart capabilities like tracking fitness, receiving notifications, and controlling music.
Full definition
There have been a lot
of hybrid smartwatch - fitness trackers out there, but few of them have what it takes to be a great smartwatch as well as a great fitness tracker.
If you're familiar with
other Hybrid smartwatches then you will likely already know some of the available functions and features that the Path will provide.
You can find
hybrid smartwatches in a variety of sizes and finishes with bands of different quality across the price spectrum.
Hybrid smartwatches offer all the looks of a traditional watch, plus a useful amount of connected technology, keeping everyone happy in the process.
The quartz - powered
hybrid smartwatches lack notable smartwatch features but do support Bluetooth for smartphone integration.
One - day battery life and a touchscreen on a watch is still hard to swallow for some people, but that's
why hybrid smartwatches were invented.
Hybrid smartwatches give you the basic necessities such as fitness tracking and notifications, all wrapped up in a traditional watch body.
For those unfamiliar,
hybrid smartwatches blend the classy look of analog watches with the connectivity features of a smartwatch.
The
circular hybrid smartwatch is indeed classy and subtle, featuring traditional precision hands and a tiny «digital touchscreen display» showing and hiding notifications as you please.
Because hybrid smartwatches typically come with coin cell batteries that can last up to a year, battery life isn't an issue for most devices.
The black leather or gray
leather hybrid smartwatch is available on the company's site or at select department stores for $ 175.
That's the beauty
of hybrid smartwatches — they're easily disguised as traditional, mechanical watches, but they have Bluetooth connectivity that enables a variety of other functions.
The Signatur T -
Bar Hybrid Smartwatch comes in four different color options — rose gold steel - mesh, silver steel - mesh, grey leather, and black leather.
The Marc Jacobs
Riley Hybrid Smartwatch comes in a variety of different color schemes, but we tested the black and pink case with multi-colored buttons on the side.
The Kate
Spade hybrid smartwatch takes its design cues from the brand's Grand Metro watch and will be available in three models, comprising rose gold with a black leather strap, silver with a grey leather strap and gold with a pale pink leather strap.
Texas - based American fashion brand Fossil has introduced a trio of
new hybrid smartwatches as part of its growing Q line of smart wearables.
The MyKronoz
ZeTime Hybrid Smartwatch aims to provide all the features of a smartwatch, while maintaining the mechanical hands and better battery life found on a hybrid watch.
Having already released Android Wear watches, Casio is putting more emphasis
on hybrid smartwatches, and will launch the first smart, connected G Shock model in the coming months.
Other than size, there's not much else that distinguishes the Q Neely from other
Fossil hybrid smartwatches — it can track basic fitness activity, alert you to notifications, and control functions on your smartphone, all in an attractive and small package.
Both watches are fitted with TFT touchscreen displays but are also classified
as Hybrid smartwatches, and this is because each watch will have the ability to operate in either a smartwatch mode or a mechanical watch mode, which will serve the purpose of helping to conserve battery life.
Danish company Skagen, part of the Fossil Group, has shown off its Skagen
Connected Hybrid Smartwatch at consumer electronics show IFA in Berlin.
The designer is known for pushing trends past its boundaries — whether it's pairing bold prints or adding bright pops of color — and its
first hybrid smartwatch does exactly that.
Fossil's core brand also added to its already well - known line of Fossil Q
hybrid smartwatches with the Fossil Q Accomplice.
This Misfit
Command Hybrid Smartwatch provides a «more traditional - looking watch that still has smart features yet doesn't require charging.»
The DieselOn
Time hybrid smartwatch comes in five models, all of which feature a stainless steel casing and a chunky leather strap with colours options including black, brown and dark brown.
The all - new touchscreen smartwatches build upon the existing kate spade new york wearables collection, which also includes
hybrid smartwatches designed for women.
The Emporio Armani Connected
hybrid smartwatch comes in five models comprising a stainless steel bracelet, black lip bracelet, rose gold and brown leather strap, stainless steel and blue leather strap and gun metal and black leather strap.
Really, you basically can, because the Jorn and other
hybrid smartwatches use coin batteries that can last for months on end.
In our Skagen T - Bar
Hybrid Smartwatch review, we found it to be extremely enjoyable to wear, but we were disappointed at the limited customization options.
The Fossil Group, an underlying company behind the perfect deal of watches by many big - name brands (which includes Armani, DKNY, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Skagen, and of course, Fossil's own) unleashed brand new Android smartwatches Q Venture and Q Explorist and
many hybrid smartwatch models.
A year ago, the NYSW wouldn't have faced such serious competition; but today there are many more
hybrid smartwatches out there, at a wide range of prices.
One of the best things
about hybrid smartwatches is that they strike a more reasonable balance in size somewhere between a proper smartwatch and an analog smartwatch.