Tag Heuer Connected
Tag Heuer updated its Android Wear-powered watch,
the Connected, and the price now properly reflects its luxury status, US$ 9,900.
The watch has a 46mm
Titanium Grade 2 casing (12.8mm thick), lugs and push button. The titanium has
been coated with carbide and a anti-fingerprint coating. The glass is
scratch-resistant sapphire and the whole watch is IP67 rated - waterproof up to
a meter for half an hour.
The default band is a light (29 gr) vulcanized rubber
band, but you can switch to titanium or calfskin leather if you prefer. With
the rubber band, the whole watch weighs just 81 gr.
The Tag Heuer
Connected has a big 1.5” circle display with 360 x 360px resolution (240ppi).
It’s a transflective display, which should help its visibility in direct
sunlight. The watch is running on Intel’s wearable platform with a dual-core
processor (0.5GHz normal, 1.6GHz top speed), 1GB of RAM and 4GB storage. As
other Android Wear watches, this one supports Android 4.3+ and iOS 8.2+.
The 410 mAh battery promises 25 hours of normal
operation. The sensor array includes a gyroscope, a tilt sensor, a microphone,
but lacks a heart rate monitor.
After two years of Tag Heuer Connected
ownership you get the opportunity to pay US$ 1,500 and get a mechanical Carrera
watch (which normally runs around US$ 3,000). That watch will last for decades,
long after the Connected is outdated. Though to be fair, you had the same
option with the original US$ 1,500.
