Yet another major luxury product company has
announced plans to launch a new Android Wear 2.0-based smartwatch later this
year. Today, the Germany-based Montblanc, revealed its first smartwatch, the
Summit. It will have a starting price tag of US$ 890, which is much cheaper than
the US$ 1,650 cost for the new TAG Heuer product.
The Montblanc Summit will have a 1.39-inch 400 x 400
AMOLED display, and inside there will be a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip,
along with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of on-board storage. It will be certified for
an IP68 water resistance rating, too. It will have a number of built-in
features like a heart rate monitor, microphone and barometer. The Summit will only have about a day of battery life when
fully charged. It also won’t have features that many smartwatch owners might
require, like an NFC chip (which means no Android Pay) no support for cellular
connections and no GPS.
So why get the Montblanc Summit? Because the company
hopes you want to wear a smartwatch with a lot of style. It will include
digital versions of classic Montblanc watch faces along with a digital watch
timer so you can get on your private jet and know what the local time is
wherever you go. Also, the watch will come in several different versions,
including one with a case made in stainless steel and another in a titanium case,
with a price starting at a higher level of US$ 980. You can also get the Summit
with different higher end straps like alligator that will push that price up
even higher.
If you want to get the Montblanc Summit, you will
have to wait a little while longer; it won’t go on sale until May in the US and
UK. It will expand to other parts of the world by the end of July.
