Razer Launches the Nabu Smartwatch (But Don’t Call it One)

Shake the watch and the secondary display lights up to provide smartphone notifications, fitness tracking, and watch to watch communication.

Are you interested in the Razer Nabu Watch or is it priced too close to a full smartwatch to get your attention?

While smartwatches have proliferated the industry in 2015, one of the biggest challenges to the devices have been their battery life and their fundamental lack of capability as a multi-function watch. It also comes with a companion app. The device might not be the ideal smartwatch, per say, but the company has billed it as “digital watch with smart functions”. The watch has standard digital watch features like a timer, stopwatch and world clocks. The first battery is a replaceable coin cell battery that powers the main display and can offer up to a year of uninterrupted use.

The Nabu Watch has two screens, each of them draws power from different batteries, thus giving the flawless blend of a watch and smart notification device. You’ll be notified of calls, texts, emails and alerts from apps like Facebook and Twitter.

The Razer Nabu Watch Forged costs $50 more than the standard version. “We’re also just really excited to create a digital watch that we’re proud to call our own”. “This was something our fans have asked for, and we’re happy to deliver”. Joining this is the Razer Nabu hardware, a small OLED display that shows your step count, calories burned, distance travelled and of course subtle notifications like the original Razer Nabu does.

Razer is a firm that moat people will start thinking of mechanical keyboards, fancy gaming mouse and the colors black and green when hearing the name.

The Razer Nabu Watch looks like a rugged digital diver’s watch, but it has advanced features not found in basic digital watches, Tech Radar reports.