Garmin unveils its new luxury smart health connected watch: the Felix Chronos

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Garmin will definitely have released a lot of products in 2016! Thus, after the Vivosmart HR and the Vivofit 3, its smart health connected bracelet for golf, the Vivomove or even the Vivosmart HR +, the American unveils a new smart health connected watch: the Felix Chronos. And it clearly targets an affluent audience.

Its price should indeed put off more than one: count $ 1499.99 to offer you the model in titanium ! Fortunately, you will get your money's worth: the watch adopts a very elegant design (and yet with a screen of 219 px² scratch resistant, always-on, from 1,2 " !) and hosts all the features that can be expected from such a device, including of course a activity tracking.

The knocking, water resistant up to 100 m depth, thus has many sensors: altimeter, barometer and even 3 axis compass are on the program. An included solution also allows you guide to your starting point if you got lost, by hiking for example! This idea, inspired by drones, remains new, although there are many other wearables incorporating a GPS and a sensor GLONASS. weather and notifications are also part of it, thanks to a synchronization in Bluetooth LE with the smartphone of the user.

The sports monitoring is provided by a compatibility with many practices (swimming, skiing, golf, walking…), and records a whole bunch of statistics very sharp: vertical oscillation and ratio, stress, ground contact race, cadence (number of steps per minute), pace, cardiac frequency, VO2… The system’s operating system is proprietary, but looks set to be able to compete with Android Wear.

The device, whose Li-ion battery of 180 mAh to one one week autonomy according to Garmin (1 p.m. with GPS enabled), is already available on the Garmin online store. count $ 1000 for the metal version, against $ 900 with a leather strap.

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