Sony has made its desire known to be a major player in the burgeoning market of wearables. Its newest effort is the svelte and sleek-looking Sony Smartwatch 3, which follows in the trail of Motorola’s relatively successful round-face Moto 360. As part of Google’s Android Wear, the wearable device was bound to show up at the Play Store, and it has now.


The Sony Smartwatch 3 was initially launched at IFA 2014, although ship date was always going to be at a later time. As promised, it will come in black or lime colors. The processor is a 1.2GHz quad-core ARM A7 unit operating at 1.2GHz backstopped by 512MB of RAM. The screen is a 1.6-inch 320 x 320 LCD with capacitive touch.

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Of course, other features include an ambient light sensor, accelerometer, vibrator, compass, gyro, GPS, with NFC and Bluetooth connectivity. The Sony Smartwatch 3 is compatible with Android devices running version 4.3 or better. Internal storage is at 4GB, and the battery is rated at 420mAh, which Sony says is good two days of use.

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It is still marked as “coming soon” at the Play Store, but the pricing is already revealed at USD$249.99. As to how successful this will be in competing with a wearables market that is growing increasingly saturated is still anybody’s guess. What do you guys think?

SOURCE: Google Play Store

9 COMMENTS

    • I bought a Samsung Gear 2. I think it’s the best cost-benefit, if you do not need a smartwatch “smartophone-free”. This one from Sony’s has almost the same specs and runs Android Wear, what is an advantage over Samsung’s (runs Tizen and we are not seeing much apps recently).

  1. This one has a GPS of its own? Great can you play music (through headphones) and have runtastic running on it as well?
    Than it would be perfect for sports. I hate carrying my phone with me when jogging.

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