Indian handsets maker Spice has also jumped into wearable bandwagon and launched today country’s first sim enabled smart watch, Spice Smart Pulse M 9010. The Smart Pulse can be used as a standalone phone with its ground breaking Dual SIM support. This smartwatch will be available at a very attractive MOP of Rs 3,999 exclusively through HomeShop18 from 11th July 2014 onwards across India. To make the offer sweet for the users, the company is offering Bluetooth headset and two wrist bands for free with the Smart Pulse.
Spice Smart Pulse sports a 1.6-inch display, and is packed with intuitive interface, and 8 GB MicroSD support.This watch supports Dual-SIM (2G+2G), and most importantly, standalone phone capability. This smatwatch has a 420 mAh battery too. Through this watch, the users can perform many functions of a phone such as make and receive call. It can be paired via Bluetooth with any other android smartphone to work as secondary device for the smartphone. For pairing with Smart Pulse with the android smartphone, the Bluetooth notifier app will be required, which is available on the the company’s website. Besides above, the Smart Pulse gives the user access to read and write SMS, call log, contact list, music and camera.
Commenting on the launch, Mr T M Ramakrishnan, CEO – Devices, Spice Retail Limited said “The Smart Pulse is innovative for its dual sim functionality, utilitarian for its Bluetooth pairability and fashionable for the changeable wrist bands that come with it, a unique feature for this category. We, at Spice, gladly announce the take-off of the country’s first wearable device in the category which will act as a second screen for your android phones and enhances your existing smartphone’s functionality as well. Being the first, among the domestic players, in the Indian market to launch a sim-enabled wearable device, Spice continues to stimulate demand in the market through its product innovations.”
Keeping in view of its specifications and Dual-SIM support, this smartwatch looks good proposition for Rs. 4,000. But its success will depend upon how it preforms on the wrist of the users and we would like to test this device for giving our verdict about this smartwatch. From the images received by us, the Smart Pulse looks like Samsung Gear Neo smartwatch.
Key features:
4 cm screen
420 mAh battery
Audio & Video Player
Dual Sim (2G+2G)
Expandable memory upto 8GB
FM Radio
Bluetooth
WAP/GPRS/EDGE
Freebies- Bluetooth headset and two wrist bands
