Smart Watches & Hybrid Watches
Hoskings smart watches offer the best of health and wellness tech in the most elegant wearable designs. Our smart watches connect to android phones and provide advanced health and fitness features to help you be your best. Hoskings smart watch series are jam-packed with life-enriching technology. Not only fitness trackers, some of these watches also have a heart rate monitor, sleep tracking and even skin temperature checks. All with extended battery life so they’ll never let you down.
Check out our range of smart watches/ hybrids in these awesome brands Armani, Cactus, Diesel, Fossil, Maserati, Michael Kors and Skagen.
FAQs
A smart watch is a watch that can be used for multiple functions beyond telling the time. It’s almost like having a small computer on your wrist. Most smart watches will connect to your smart phone and has useful features like fitness tracking, heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, GPS, music control, ‘find your phone’ and other apps. Many smart watches are like an extension of a smart phone and can help you receive calls, messages and even emails. Hoskings Jewellers has a limited collection of smart watches for women and smart hybrid watches for men and kids.
A hybrid smart watch is a watch that has a traditional watch design but also has ‘smart’ features like fitness tracking. Unlike some smart watches, a hybrid smart watch looks like a classic wristwatch. Take this Maserati ‘Traguardo’ hybrid leather strap watch, it looks like a boss in the boardroom, but can also count steps, calories and has a stopwatch, sleep monitor, music and camera controls, as well as the ability to deliver notifications. All with the unmistakable elegant design style that Maserati offers.
So, if you want a high-tech hybrid smart watch with heaps of useful features without compromising on style, a hybrid smart watch is the perfect choice for you.
Whether you can make calls on a smart watch depends on the brand and model of the smart watch. Many smart watches do have the capability to make calls from the watch. In some cases, the smart watch will allow you to make a call when the smart phone is close by and the smart watch can connect to the phone via Bluetooth. Some smart watches have built-in microphones and speakers which allows for hands-free calling.
Nearly all smart/hybrid watches can be connected to smartphones. Most will connect wirelessly via Bluetooth and therefore they need to be within range of your Android or iOS smart phone or tablet. Some smart watches have a built-in cellular connectivity however and will work without a connection to another device.
For example, Hoskings Diesel Axial Gen 5 smart watch will connect to your smart phone and allow you to use apps such as Google Maps and Google Translate. You can use it to make shopping a breeze with Google Pay’s contactless payment. And this smart/hybrid watch can also receive emails, texts and notifications.
There are some key features to look for when buying a smart watch. We’ll list many of them here:
- Design - choose a style that suits you and that you’ll be happy to wear every day.
- Compatibility - check that the smart/hybrid watch will work with your smart phone’s iOS or Android operating system.
- Features – think about what features you’ll use most in your smart/hybrid phone. For example, fitness tracking and heart rate monitoring or GPS and distance travelled.
- Testimonials: Ask friends for their advice or read online reviews.
- Brand reputation: Some brands of smart/hybrid watches are better than others, so it’s worth talking to the experts at Hoskings Jewellers to ask what brands they recommend.