If we want to get the most out of a smartwatch connected to our iPhone, the best option currently available on the market is the Apple Watch. If this is not our case, and we only want a smartwatch to receive notifications or to quantify our daily activity, in the market we have different options.
Withings, has returned to the market with a new hybrid smartwatch offering, after one of the company's co-founders, compare the brand to Nokia to whom it had been sold two years earlier for 192 million dollars.
The Finnish company wanted to get into the healthcare device market but all it did at the time was rename existing product range without launching any new devices. In 2018, the company deemed it a mistake to buy Withings and announced that it was trying to reach an agreement with its co-founder, Eric Carrel, who promised to launch a new range of products later this year. The first device is the Steel HR Sport.
The Steel HR Sport is a hybrid smartwatch, that is, analog with a small monochrome LCD screen round where the relevant information at that moment is shown, including notifications. With an autonomy of 25 days, a heart rate monitor, GPS and waterproof to 50 meters, it becomes an excellent option to consider for sports lovers.
Thanks to the Health Mate application, we can have all the information that the smartwatch collects during our day to day on our device to analyze it in a more comfortable and faster way. It automatically detects which is the sport we are doing at all times in addition to track our activity while we sleep.
The Steel HR Sport is priced at 199 euros, a more than adjusted price for all the functions it offers us, as long as we obviously like traditional watches. It is available with the dial in black or white and offers 4 straps: 2 leather in black and brown and 2 silicone in black and red, similar to the Nike Sport of the Apple Watch.