Tuesday, July 10, 2018

The dual-screen TicWatch Pro goes on sale for $250

Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro is going on sale today for $250, after being announced back in May. The TicWatch Pro puts a new twist on Wear OS smartwatches by adding in a second, low-power screen that’s meant to keep the watch running longer.

To make this trick work, Mobvoi placed a transparent FSTN LCD display (picture a traditional digital watch) on top of the watch’s primary OLED screen. The OLED screen is used to show the standard Wear OS interface. But when you aren’t using the watch, the OLED screen turns off and you’re then able to see the LCD above it, which displays the time and other information you might want at a glance, like fitness data.

Mobvoi estimates that you’ll get two days of battery life using the watch this way. When...

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