Italian clothing and accessory company Diesel has announced
its first smartwatch in collaboration with Fossil Group. The new Diesel On smartwatch will be powered by Google’s operating
system for wearables Android Wear 2.0.
The Diesel On smartwatch is equipped with an AMOLED
display. The smartwatch will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100
chipset designed specifically for wearables. The System-on-Chip sports a
quad-core Cortex-A7 32-bit CPU clocked at up to 1.2 GHz per core, an Adreno 304
graphics chip with OpenGL ES 3.0 support, and includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon X5
LTE modem supporting LTE FDD, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, CDMA 1X, and GSM/EDGE, along
with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1 LE (low energy), and NFC connectivity.
The
Diesel On will run Android Wear 2.0 which will make it compatible with
virtually every Android smartphones running at least Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, as
well as iOS devices running iOS 9 or better. Customers will reportedly have the option of customizing the Diesel On
with a variety of straps made from a wide range of materials including
silicone, leather, denim and textile alternatives.
Although the release timeframe is
rather vague, the smartwatch’s retail price has already been set at US$ 325.
