A
hybrid watch is a type of smartwatch that combines traditional watch features with smart technology. It looks like a regular watch but also has additional features like fitness tracking, notifications, and smartphone connectivity.
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Hybrid watches also let you identify what apps or contacts you're receiving notifications from, allowing you to decide whether to pull out your phone and interact with them.
However, if you're not ready to commit to a touchscreen smartwatch, but still want to try out some smart features, the huge choice
of hybrid watches has got you covered.
Like
other hybrid watches from Fossil, Q Neely and Q Jacqueline offer incoming smartphone notifications, vibrations, and watch hand animations, and they can track fitness goals.
You can set various apps or contacts to all the numbers on the watch face, far more than
hybrid watches like Michele and Skagen Connected allow.
We've yet to try the new
hybrid watch from Mondaine, but we plan to before the show is over.
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Continuing this commitment to enhance comfort, we also saw a new version of the Signatur T -
Bar hybrid watch with a new strap, which Skagen referred to as silver silk mesh.
The
Michele Hybrid watch forced us to come back to our devices when we actually had a reason to look at it.
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The new
hybrid watch uses a 281 module technology created in collaboration with MMT, allowing it to easily sync with an iOS or Android phone through the MMT - 365 app.
The Emporio Armani
Connected hybrid watch has always attracted compliments, probably more so than any other hybrid we've worn.
Porsche logos, mostly, in addition to a «comfortable as well as skin - friendly leather - rubber
hybrid watch strap» with some red accents, and a Porsche Design watch face with «one touch chronograph function inspired by a Porsche sports car dashboard.»
Skagen
Jorn Hybrid Watch specifications: Discreet Alerts Replaceable CR2412 Battery Activity Tracking Works with Android Devices 4.4 +, iOS 8.2 + / iPhone 5 + Connectivity: Bluetooth Smart Enabled / 4.1 Low Energy Water resistant
Now the company is gearing up for the release of new
hybrid watches branded by Diesel, Kate Spade, and Emporio Armani.
The 40 mm case on the model seen in our video is made from PVD - coated stainless steel, and the face is covered in sapphire crystal — two aspects that separate this from many of the other
hybrid watches out there, and bring it more in - line with A.B. Art's other more costly Swiss watches.
And the new
hybrid watches represent an higher level of fashion sense to differentiate them from the tech companies» offerings.
The NYSW watch's price is very competitive, and up to $ 300 less than the most expensive big - name, fashion -
forward hybrid watches available now.
That is the line of thinking behind what is aptly
called hybrid watches or hybrid smartwatches, adding just a pinch of technology to otherwise traditional, but gorgeous, timepieces.
And, despite not being the
first hybrid watch we've seen (far from it), it's certainly the most innovate, with a hope to «improve the mechanical watch of today by incorporating technologies of tomorrow».
In the short term, IDC predicts that basic watches — i.e., devices that don't run third - party applications — will continue to out - ship smartwatches as watch makers shift resources to
building hybrid watches.
Skagen, the popular Danish brand known for its minimalist watch designs, will launch a new
hybrid watch later this year made from titanium, and we've tried it on.
The design of the Vivomove HR is far improved from the
original hybrid watch from Garmin and that could make it a much more desirable purchase.
Garmin's new and
improved hybrid watch has a few minor upgrades, but the new design is a big improvement for anyone looking to hide fitness features on their wrist.
The presence of sapphire, and the unusual touchscreen technology, makes the Touch X an interesting addition to the growing ranks of
hybrid watches produced by watch manufacturers.
The
Gage hybrid watch is your basic chronometer, with a stainless steel body and thin leather strap, but to my eyes (and pocket book) it's the better value at $ 250.
While smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 3 offer up a wide variety of smartphone - like functions,
hybrid watches opt for subtle notification alerts along with some smartphone control options.
This isn't just a
regular hybrid watch that also happens to track steps, it's one that features a full color, always - on 1.28 - inch touchscreen with 2.5 D Gorilla Glass 3 protection.
The Fossil Q
Activist hybrid watch (along with the Fossil Q Accomplice) is set to be the slimmest Fossil Q hybrid smartwatch to date and has customizable pushers.
Yes, provided you like the style, and don't have a problem with the brand name's prominence, then the EA Connected Watch puts everything we like about the Fossil Q
hybrid watches into a more fashion - forward body.
Like most
other hybrid watches, the battery life on the Emporio Armani Connected is perhaps its biggest advantage over smart smartwatches like Android Wear devices or the Apple Watch.
The Holst and Signatur T -
Bar hybrid watches are part of Skagen's spring and summer line - up, and will be available in the near future.
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Tailor Hybrid Watch (connects to your phone, but looks like a normal watch!)
The Watch 2 Porsche Design has a new ceramic speedometer, inspired by a Porsche dashboard, the company's logo on the chronograph bezel and a leather -
hybrid watch strap with red stitching.
The first of these will be the slim Fossil Q Accomplice and Fossil Q Activist, both of which are set to launch this summer, followed by
hybrid watches from DKNY, Marc Jacobs, Michele, Relic, Skagen, Tory Burch and others.
It reminds us of the Kronaby range
of hybrid watches we saw at the Baselworld watch show, where the design was exactly right, but the price is three times that of the NYSW watch.
Q Activist, the
newest hybrid watch for men, builds off the classic design styling of the Fossil mainline watch Vintage 54, with the addition of a double layer dial that features calendar date tracking as well as a tachymeter scale for stopwatch functionality.
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Skagen's
hybrid watches are the perfect blend of both.