Citizen CZ Smart smartwatches refreshed with new hardware and designs – NotebookCheck.internet News

Citizen has refreshed the CZ Smart, a Wear OS-based mostly smartwatch it launched in 2020. Not solely has Citizen upgraded the smartwatch’s internals, however it has additionally launched completely different sizes. Previously, Citizen solely offered the CZ Smart as a 46 mm smartwatch. However, the second-era mannequin is available in 41 mm and 44 mm sizes, mirroring the likes of the Galaxy Watch5 sequence.

At the center of all second-era CZ Smart smartwatches is the Snapdragon Wear 4100+, fairly than the newer Snapdragon W5+. Unfortunately, the latter stays lacking from the western market regardless of its introduction final summer time. Citizen has additionally geared up this 12 months’s CZ Smart with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage, extra staples of latest Wear OS smartwatches. Citizen claims that its new smartwatches will last as long as a day between expenses and ought to take 40 minutes to recharge totally too, like different Wear OS smartwatches launched in the previous couple of years.

Thankfully, Citizen pre-installs Wear OS 3, fairly than the older Wear OS 2. The OS operates inside a 1.29-inch AMOLED show, whatever the mannequin chosen. Unfortunately, Google Assistant is lacking, however that is additionally the case on all however the Pixel Watch and latest Galaxy Watch smartwatches. Second-generation Citizen CZ Smart fashions might be accessible first within the US, the place they are going to be accessible in March for US$350.

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