HTC Grip, All Information In The First Wearable of HTC

The HTC Grip has been developed jointly with the company Under Armour, a company specializing in sportswear and accessories for elite athletes company. HTC hopes that this partnership will serve to get a good spot in the world of fitness, though certainly not noted any features on the rest of SmartBand and fitness band who have been on the market a while.

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Starting with its design, we see a prototype format and that the SmartBand: shaped bracelet made of rugged rubber inner to ensure complete with exercise and a small rectangular screen fixation. It is a PMOLEDs screen 1.8 inches with a resolution of 32 × 160 pixels, which already gives us a hint of what information we’ll see reflected in it.

The real weapon of this HTC Grip is its association with Under Armour and integration with the Record application developed by the same company. The SmartBand has up to 5 sensors for full traceability of our activity though surprised at the lack of a HR-rate sensor, able to differentiate between different types of sports such as athletics and cycling. And thanks to the incorporation of GPS native, the HTC Grip can calculate our routes and allow us to go jogging can leave our smartphone at home.

The HTC Grip have a multi-sport mode to differentiate between different types of training

Integration with software Under Armour allow the wearable is also able to send recommendations on how to improve our training, new exercise routines and techniques did not know. Of course, we will find other typical functions such as counting steps and calories burned or track our sleep cycles, among others. The HTC Grip also be able to show notifications received in our smartphone on your screen.

These are the complete specs of the HTC Grip:

• Screen 1.8 “PMOLEDs, with a resolution of 32 × 160 pixels
• 32-bit SoC STM32L151
• 16MB flash memory, 8MB RAM
• 100mAh battery that provides up to 5 hours of battery life with GPS or two half days of non-sports use
• GPS, gyroscope, compass, ambient light sensor
• 0 and 4.0 Bluetooth low energy
• Load cable
• Vibration
• Certified IP57 waterproof and dust
• Compatible with Android 4.3 and up iOS 7

The first wearable HTC will be available for $ 199, identical to the Microsoft Band price, and available in three sizes: small, medium and large. The standard color is the blue / green lima we can see in the promotional images. As for availability, the company has not confirmed release date yet, but we can start making our orders this spring through the page of HTC or other authorized distributors in the United States.

Via ubergizmo