New Skagen hybrid smartwatch has a two-week battery life and costs $195

Skagen is launching a new line of hybrid smartwatches for those who don't need Wear OS.

What you need to know

Skagen launches its latest hybrid Jorn HR smartwatch with five different designs and two sizes.
The watch features an E-Ink display and two weeks of battery life.
The Jorn HR will retail for $195 when available.

Skagen is known for its stylish Wear OS smartwatches like the Skagen Falster 3, which are similar to offerings from its parent company, Fossil, yet often offer more simple and modern designs. The company's smartwatches can often be hampered by Wear OS, which is known over the years to offer sluggish performance and short battery life. For CES 2021, Skagen is extending its design language to the new Jorn HR hybrid smartwatch that doesn't run Wear OS but can still perform many of the functions consumers look for in a typical smartwatch.

The new Jorn HR smartwatch features an E-Ink display that sits under the standard watch hands. This allows users to check notifications, track metrics, and monitor their heart rate without the need to sift through various menus and UI elements. And because it's using a low-power E-Ink display, the watch isn't chugging through its battery like on a typical smartwatch, offering more than two weeks of use on a single charge with the always-on display. That's on par with many of the best hybrid smartwatches with E-Ink displays, and a huge improvement from the average day or so of battery life on a Wear OS smartwatch.

In addition to the typical watch functions, the new Jorn HR hybrid smartwatch also features sleep tracking, workout modes and auto workout detection, custom watch faces, music control, notifications and app alerts, and more.

There's no built-in GPS, so it relies on connected GPS through a smartphone. And after a run or bike ride, the companion app can display a snapshot or animated video of your route.

The watch has a 3ATM water resistance rating and can charge up to 80% in just 50 minutes, although you won't be doing too much charging.

The Jorn Hybrid HR comes in five different styles and either 42mm or 38mm sizes, with standard strap sizes of 22mm and 18mm, respectively. No release date has been announced but the watch will retail for $195 when available.

Fossil Collider HR Hybrid Smartwatch

$139 at Amazon

Fossil hybrid smartwatches offer the best of both worlds for those of you who want all the functionality of a typical smartwatch but without all the bloat and confusing menu navigation. Fossil's hybrid smartwatches feature E-Ink displays to track your metrics and can last for more than two weeks on a single charge.

Source: androidcentral

The hidden cost of food delivery

Noah Lichtenstein Contributor Share on Twitter Noah Lichtenstein is the founder and managing partner of Crossover , a diversified private technology fund backed by institutional investors, technology execs and professional athletes and entertainers. More posts by this contributor What Studying Students Teaches Us About Great Apps I’ll admit it: When it comes to food, I’m lazy. There are dozens of great dining options within a few blocks of my home, yet I still end up ordering food through delivery apps four or five times per week. With the growing coronavirus pandemic closing restaurants and consumers self-isolating, it is likely we will see a spike in food delivery much like the 20% jump China reported during the peak of its crisis. With the food delivery sector rocketing toward a projected $365 billion by the end of the decade, I’m clearly not the only one turning to delivery apps even before the pandemic hit. Thanks to technology (and VC funding) we can get a ri

Cyber Monday Canada: Last-minute deals for everyone on your list

Best Cyber Monday Canada deals: Smart Home Audio Phones, Tablets & Accessories Wearables Laptops & PC Components Amazon products Gaming Televisions Cameras Lifestyle & Kitchen Toys & Kids Cyber Monday Canada is here, and retailers are rolling out the red carpet for customers who want to shop for everything from tech to kitchenware to games and everything in between. Unlike years past, Cyber Monday Canada deals look a bit different than normal. Instead of retailers trying to pack their stores with as many shoppers as possible, we're seeing tons of online deals that you can take advantage of from the comfort of your home. We've rounded up our favorites below, so feel free to browse through the best of what Canada Cyber Monday has to offer! This list is being updated with new Cyber Monday deals all the time, so check back often. Spotlight deals It's a Switch Nintendo Switch Fortnite Edition bundle $399.95 at Amazon It's a Switch.

iPhone 13 Pro vs. iPhone 15 Pro Buyer's Guide: 50+ Differences Compared

The iPhone 15 Pro brings over 50 new features and improvements to Apple's high-end smartphones compared to the iPhone 13 Pro, which was released two years prior. This buyer's guide breaks down every major difference you should be aware of between the two generations and helps you to decide whether it's worth upgrading. The ‌iPhone 13‌ Pro debuted in 2021, introducing a brighter display with ProMotion technology for refresh rates up to 120Hz, the A15 Bionic chip, a telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, Macro photography and photographic styles, Cinematic mode for recording videos with shallow depth of field, ProRes video recording, a 1TB storage option, and five hours of additional battery life. The ‌iPhone 13‌ Pro was discontinued upon the announcement of the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, but it is still possible to get hold of it second-hand. Our guide helps to answer the question of how to decide which of these two iPhone models is best for you and serves as a way to c

Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft

Slack and Amazon announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, AWS has agreed to use Slack for internal communications. Make no mistake, this is a big deal as the SaaS communications tool increases its ties with AWS, but this agreement could also be about slighting Microsoft and its rival Teams product by making a deal with a cloud rival. In the past Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has had choice words for Microsoft saying the Redmond technology giant sees his company as an “existential threat.” Whether that’s true or not — Teams is but one piece of a huge technology company — it’s impossible not to look at the deal in this context. Aligning more deeply with AWS sends a message to Microsoft, whose Azure infrastructure services compete with AWS. Butterfield didn’t say that of course

Tech Talk

Search This Blog