It’s not a smartwatch but a watch that’s smart!

Razer announced the Razer Nabu Watch at CES 2016 last week. The watch is a full-featured digital timepiece which includes a Nabu secondary screen that previews notifications streamed from a smartphone, as well as tracks fitness and sleep activity via an in-built accelerometer.

While smartwatches have proliferated the industry in 2015, one of the biggest challenges to the devices have been their battery life and their fundamental lack of capability as a multi-function watch. Razer addresses these issues by focusing first on the digital chronograph as the primary function and the smart features as a secondary addition.

The Razer Nabu Watch includes features expected of top-tier digital watches – an illuminated backlit display, countdown timer, stopwatch, World time clocks and alarms – as well as automatic phone time sync via Bluetooth to ensure the watch is always accurate to the global standard. Most importantly, the Razer Nabu Watch digital chronograph component has a 12-month life on its coin cell replaceable battery. 

A secondary screen outfitted in the Razer Nabu Watch delivers all the features of a Nabu wearable, including discreet notifications, fitness tracking and watch-to-watch communication.

Paired to a user’s smartphone via Bluetooth, calls, texts, emails and app alerts all stream to the secondary screen for ease of viewing.  An in-built accelerometer enables comprehensive fitness tracking – steps walked, distance traveled, calories burned and more. Finally, with its unique watch-to-watch communication capability, two Nabu Watch users can shake hands to exchange Facebook and Twitter info easily. This feature works interchangeably between any Nabu Watch, Nabu and/or Nabu X.  The watch’s secondary screen has seven days of rechargeable battery life via an included charging cable.

The Razer Nabu Watch is available in two versions. The standard edition is designed with tough polycarbonate materials and with Razer green highlights.  It will be available from late January 2016 and is priced at $149.99. The Razer Nabu Watch Forged Edition has machined stainless steel buttons for added durability and a premium black finish.  It is available from January 6^th 2016 exclusively at RazerStore retail locations and at RazerStore.com, priced at $199.99.

Product Features

Watch Hardware:

• 12 months battery life using replaceable coin cell battery (CR2032)
• Hourly time signal
• 1/100 second stopwatch
  Measuring capacity: 23:59’59.99″
  Measuring modes: Elapsed time, split time
• Countdown Timer
  Measuring unit: 1 second
• Full Auto Calendar
• 12/24 hour formats
• 3 multi-function alarms (Daily or weekly repeats)
• World Time
• Time, World Time and Alarms auto synced to phone time or manually adjusted via Nabu app

Nabu Hardware:

• OLED 128×16 single color
• 3-axis accelerometer
• Cylindrical vibration motor
• Single Button for OLED Screen
• Lithium polymer battery with up to 7 days battery life
• 5ATM water resistance rating
• Shock Resistant up to 5m
• Charging via magnetic proprietary USB cable
• Wireless syncing with mobile device via BLE

System requirements:

• iPhone 5/5S/6/6 Plus/6S/6S Plus with iOS 8 (or higher)
• Android 4.3 (or higher) device with Bluetooth Low Energy (BT 4.0 or higher) capability