The Moto 360 Has Been Resurrected; But Not By Motorola

Aye, you are reading that right. The Moto 360 smartwatch has been launched in a new avatar just it's not made by Motorola, the company owned past Lenovo. Instead, this once popular smartwatch has been resurrected past consumer electronics company eBuyNow, which we will talk about in a while. But, let's go back to the Moto 360 smartwatch for now.

Motorola was one of the commencement companies to back Google'southward ambitious Wear OS smartwatch projection, which was called Android Wear dorsum in the day. It released the Moto 360, with a round design, with a flat tire at the bottom of the display due to technology limitations back in 2014. The Apple Watch hadn't fabricated its debut yet and everyone was in awe of a never-seen-before grade factor and use case.

Well, Android Wearable never truly took off the way information technology was anticipated and fifty-fifty Wear OS – a rebranded attempt at the habiliment platform is nearing a slow expiry. Notwithstanding, the Moto 360 smartwatch has now been resurrected, three years subsequently the projection was shuttered, with the same round form factor.

Dubbed the third-generation Moto 360, information technology at present features a ane.2-inch fully circular OLED display (with 360×360 pixels resolution) and runs Wear Os out-of-the-box. There's 2 buttons on the right-manus side of the lookout, with the top one acting as a rotating crown whereas the lesser ane tin can be customized to launch whatever app. It weighs 52 grams and comes only in a single 42.8mm case size.

This smartwatch is powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100 processor, which has been paired with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. It features a centre charge per unit sensor on the underside, GPS, and NFC for mobile payments. The latest Moto 360 comes equipped with a 355mAh battery, which can exist fully charged in an hr, says eBuyNow, which has been licensed to use the Moto 360 branding.

The latest Moto 360 smartwatch will retail at $349.99 and will go on auction in December later this year in iii color variants – Steel Gray, Rose Gold, and Phantom Black. This is a pretty steep price tag when you consider that the latest Apple Picket Series 5 costs 50 bucks more, i.e $399 in the United States.