Smartwatches are capital when their batteries are n’t die on you . That ’s what makesPebble one of the best . But Lenovo is seek to creep in on that territory too , with its new Android - friendly vitamin E - ink smartband : The Vibe Band VB10 .
At first rosiness , it sound like the Pebble pitch all over again : wrist notifications , waterproof for 30 minutes at up to a meter , weeklong battery life , fitness tracking , low - powered screen , low-priced price head — the Vibe Band is just $ 90 . Unlike the Pebble , which has a low - index LCD concealment , the Vibe Band has Es - ink , and the effect is a unique and slap-up papery facial expression . I thought it might have actually been a mock - up paper video display under a plastic screen at first .
Also unlike the Pebble , the Vibe Band wo n’t have a racy subroutine library of third party apps , which could offend its usefulness , since it strikes out on its own instead of using Google ’s Android Wear program . The other catch is that while it will work with Android phones outside Lenovo ’s non - US Vibe line , it wo n’t be coming to the US at launching . dissatisfactory but not precisely a surprise since Lenovo late swallow up Motorola to act as its stateside arm . perhaps there ’s something simiilar by Moto in the pipeline . Do n’t hold your breath but maybe .
Still , it ’s heartening to see an einsteinium - ink watch with an accent on battery living , specially since standardised ones from Archos and Sony have n’t in reality shown up yet . It ’s catch to be a number late in the biz for any other vigil to successfully beat out Pebble as the go - to third - political party smartwatch , but it ’s good for folk music to keep them on their toes .
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