Alcatel OneTouch has a daring business proposition, to be the first company to produce a truly mass market smartwatch. With their reasonably priced, round-screen device, Alcatel might just be on to something. The company’s Watch (previous called Wave) has been in the works for a while and has seen a sizable update since it was shown off in September. The homegrown OS has been vastly refined and polished. Alcatel decided that Android Wear was too immature and that they were better served developing their own operating system. This has allowed Watch to be compatible with both iOS and Android devices. More significantly though, it has afforded the Watch a staggering 2 to 5 days of battery life. Feature wise, the Watch is a nearly full-fledged smartwatch with notifications, activity tracking, music control, heart rate monitor, and phone locator. The only lacking features seem to be GPS, voice recognition, text response, and apps. Those might seem like large trade offs, but with a $150 price tag those will likely be features worth shedding for a large number of people.
