Tag Heuer Connected races into Android Wear market with official launch

Tag Heuer officially unveiled their Android Wear powered smartwatch today, the Tag Heuer Connected, and started accepting orders on their online store. Tag Heuer is selling the smartwatch for a whopping $1,500 retail. Currently 7 different colors are available for the band, though only black is currently available online. To go with the band colors and workmanship of the unit itself which is constructed with a titanium case and sapphire glass, buyers will get a set of special Tag Heuer digital watch faces. Tag Heuer has indicated in previous statements that part of their goal was to produce a digital smartwatch that looked like and represented their traditional watches, a goal that it appears they have achieved.

The Tag Heuer Connected comes with an Intel processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of onboard memory. The display is a LTPS LCD display that is 1.5-inches in diameter running at 360 x 360 resolution, yielding 240 ppi. The watch part is 46 mm with a thickness of 12.8 mm and weighs 52 gm. Powering the device is a 410 mAh battery. Besides being able to run the normal variety of Android Wear supported apps available from the Play Store, the smartwatch comes with a built-in stopwatch, timer and alarm that Tag Heuer refers to as “microapps.” The device is also capable of monitoring wind direction and weather.

If you are interested in what is being described as the world’s first luxury watch powered by Android Wear, Tag Heuer has a dedicated web site at http://www.tagheuerconnected.com where you can get more information, place your order, or find the nearest retail store where you can buy one of these smartwatches.

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source: Android Official Blog

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