Hands On With E-Fun’s NextOne Smartwatch At CES 2014

January 8, 2014

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As one who has been in the market for quite some time now for a smartwatch, I'm highly anticipating a slew of devices to come out of CES before I make my choice. The Galaxy Gear has great aesthetics but is extremely over priced for the amount of battery life you get. The Qualcomm Toq is certainly on my radar and then there's the steadily popular Pebble smartwatch that continues to gain ground rapidly in the wearables department. Well, in steps E-Fun with their contribution to CES and the smartwatch arena, introducing the NextOne Smartwatch.

The NextOne smartwatch offers a budget friendly ($99) device with a 1.5-inch display and features such as pairing with your Android smartphone and showing notifications, emails, weather, alerts and even the ability to answer or reject incoming calls from your smartphone. In addition, you can install a number of third party apps that will be available on the Google Play Store and will sport Android's Jelly Bean 4.1. The watch will support Bluetooth 3.0 and give you about two days of power on a single charge. The device also implements a cool remote feature that will search for your phone if you lose it and trigger the camera shutter button for pics. Furthermore, functionality for controlling music playback is also present. Not bad for $99 bucks eh? Expect the NextOne to be available some time in Q1 of this year. Stay tuned as more cool gadgets surface by following our coverage of CES 2014 here and don't forget to leave a comment or two on what your favorite device is from the show floor.

Joe Sirianni Author

Joe was born in New Jersey and spent most of his childhood moving around from state to state. He eventually made his way to Pennsylvania where he met his Portuguese beauty and made her his wife. He now has three great kids and full access to all of the Portuguese food he can eat. Joe's love for mobile technology began when he bought his first Palm Pilot, a Palm M130 and left it on top of his car, driving off, causing it to smash into a thousand pieces. Forced to buy a new device, he quickly discovered that specs were changing so rapidly he was buying a new device every six months just to keep up. Since then, he has constantly felt the need to have the latest and greatest. When the "smartphone" revolution began and integrating cell phones and PDA's was the norm, he quickly jumped to Windows Mobile for several years until the first Android device was launched, the T-Mobile G1. Joe began appreciating all of the free utilities Google provided and sold his soul (his precious data) to Google long before they got into the mobile OS business. So, there was no hesitation at all for him to jump on board and ride the Android train as an early adopter. And boy has it been a blast. Joe now works in the Engineering & Operations dept for a major mobile carrier where he remotely troubleshoots cell sites and loves being an Editor for TalkAndroid.