Wyze is known for its smart home products, most especially its security cameras. Now it has made its entry into the smartwatch market with the Wyze Watch and it offers a lot for a very small price. The Wyze Watch looks like Amazfit’s Bip line of smartwatches but it comes with an even more affordable price tag. The smartwatch is available in two sizes – a 47mm version with a 1.75-inch screen and a 44mm version with a 1.4-inch screen. The bigger one has a 300mAh battery while the smaller one has a 260mAh battery. Both will provide up to 9 days of battery life.
The screen on both watches is a TFT 16-bit
color LCD display with a resolution of 320 x 385 for the 47mm model and 320 x
320 for the 42mm model. They are encased in an aluminum alloy frame attached to
black silicone straps. There are several watch faces to choose from with the
option to even use your own photo as the wallpaper.
Save for the difference in screen size and
of course battery capacity, the features are the same. For US$ 20, yes US$ 20, you
get a PPG heart rate sensor and a blood oxygen sensor, sleep monitoring, step
counter, and a menstrual health tracker. Wyze doesn’t say the activities the
watch can track and it will be disappointing if it is just limited to just step
counting.
Because this is a Wyze product, the
manufacturer has added support for controlling your connected Wyze smart home
products. So you can turn cameras and lights on and off from your wrist and
also access your Wyze shortcuts from the watch. The watch has an IP68 rating
and is water-resistant up to 2 meters. It supports app notifications from
multiple popular apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail, and
Twitter. It also has support for music and video player apps. The product video
shows a YouTube icon, so we presume you will be able to control playback from
your wrist. Users will also be able to reject phone calls using the watch.
The Wyze Watch is available for pre-order
for US$ 20 regardless of the size you choose. You can also purchase extra silicone
straps in Cerulean Blue, Blush Pink, and Midnight Black for US$ 3.99 a pair. There
are leather straps too and they come in Classic Brown and Forest Green with a
price tag of US$ 9.99. The Wyze Watch begins shipping in February 2021.
